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| Susan Rice creates intelligence community surveillance spreadsheets |
| 2017-04-05 |
| [Daily Caller] Update: In response to a question Tuesday from NBC News reporter Andrea Mitchell, former Obama White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice denied that she "prepared" spreadsheets of surveilled telephone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides. The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group, however, reported that Rice "ordered" the spreadsheets to be produced. In addition, former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova, one of TheDCNF’s sources, said Tuesday in response to Rice that her denial "would come as quite a surprise to the government officials who have reviewed dozens of those spreadsheets." Former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice ordered U.S. spy agencies to produce "detailed spreadsheets" of legal phone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides when he was running for president, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova. "What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. Rice were detailed spreadsheets of intercepted phone calls with unmasked Trump associates in perfectly legal conversations with individuals," diGenova told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group Monday. Bottom line: Andrew McCarthy over at National Review - "The thing to bear in mind is that the White House does not do investigations. Not criminal investigations, not intelligence investigations. Remember that." So the spreadsheets, they went where and for what purpose ? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 So Rice did not prepare the spreadsheets herself, she merely ordered them to be prepared. That's because she doesn't know how to make a spreadsheet. I'm amazed she can read one. Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2017-04-05 14:33 |
| #7 Akin to "I didn't put people in the ovens, I just ordered it?" |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-04-05 12:46 |
| #6 So Rice did not prepare the spreadsheets herself, she merely ordered them to be prepared. Not quite the same thing I guess but close enough, isn't it? My biggest problem here is I can't trust Andrea Mitchell to ask the pertinent questions in a case like this. Mitchell will be more interested in framing the interview in a way that makes it sound like Rice is innocent while avoiding the tough questions like this: "Exactly why did you order the unmasking? What was it about these phone calls in which no illegal activities were discussed that was so interesting? Huh?" |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-04-05 11:35 |
| #5 Aw come on, Rice probably didn't even know Trump was running for president. Pure coincidence. And it's perfectly legal and ethical, too. The NYT wouldn't complain if the current NSA got a similar spreadsheet on Clinton's contacts with Russia. |
| Posted by: Matt 2017-04-05 09:50 |
| #4 Presumably, these "spreadsheets" had a "TO" column and "FROM" column with names of who called whom. diGenova said. “In short, the only apparent illegal activity was the unmasking of the people in the calls.”--and the dissemination of that info throughout the intelligence community due to Obama's order for later use in creating difficulty for a Trump administration. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-04-05 09:02 |
| #3 Koskinen demanded spreadsheets ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-04-05 07:14 |
| #2 SusanRice ordered U.S. spy agencies to produce "detailed spreadsheets" of legal phone calls So when left-wing stormtroopers show up at a someone's house it is another "unexpected" coincidence? |
| Posted by: magpie 2017-04-05 01:41 |
| #1 Spreadsheets hahaha, crosstab pivot tables! No clever multiedge graph linkage analysis here. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-04-05 00:16 |