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| Breaking: List of officials who sought to 'unmask' Flynn released: Biden, Comey, Obama chief of staff among them |
| 2020-05-13 |
| Next up? MSM: "Republicans Pounce™" [Fox News] Top Obama administration officials purportedly requested to "unmask" the identity of Michael Flynn during the presidential transition period, according to a list of names from that controversial process made public on Wednesday. The list was declassified in recent days by Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, and then sent to GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, who made the documents public. It features top figures including then-Vice President Joe Biden, then-FBI Director James Comey and intelligence chiefs John Brennan and James Clapper. It also included Obama's then-chief of staff, Denis McDonough. READ THE DOCUMENTS "I declassified the enclosed document, which I am providing to you for your situational awareness," Grenell wrote to GOP senators in sending along the list. Grenell’s letter was addressed to Sens. Grassley, R-Iowa, and Johnson, R-Wis., who had penned a letter to him and Attorney General Bill Barr regarding the declassification of files related to the unmasking process earlier in the day. As Fox News previously reported, Grenell made the decision to declassify information about Obama administration officials who were involved in the "unmasking" of former national security adviser Michael Flynn — whose calls with the former Russian ambassador during the presidential transition were picked up in surveillance and later leaked. Grenell appeared to have delivered those files to the DOJ last week. The declassified list showed recipients who "may have received Lt. Gen Flynn’s identity in response to a request processed between 8 November 2016 and 31 January 2017 to unmask an identity that had been generically referred to in an NSA foreign intelligence report," the document, obtained by Fox News, read. "Each individual was an authorized recipient of the original report and the unmasking was approved through NSA’s standard process, which includes a review of the justification for the request," the document said. "Only certain personnel are authorized to submit unmasking requests into the NSA system. In this case, 16 authorized individuals requested unmasking for [REDACTED] different NSA intelligence reports for select identified principals." The document added: "While the principals are identified below, we cannot confirm hey saw the unmasked information. This response does not include any requests outside of the specified time-frame." |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #24 What is not being mentioned, or did I miss something ? "Unmasking" deals with processed intelligence reports or intelligence production. Production aimed at foreign entities with Mike Flynn also in the room. Ok, I got it. (1.) Where was the "need to know" regarding the dissemination of these reports to ambassadors and others, not even remotely associated with the intelligence process? (2.) Where are the actual written requests (which would have provided justification) for the "unmasking." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-05-13 21:50 |
| #23 :-) Can you imagine him and Terrayyza asking where they can tie up their 42' powerboat "Scaramouche"? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-13 21:49 |
| #22 Frank for the win. Snark o' The Day |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-13 21:37 |
| #21 Tehran I'm picturing a "last helicopter out of Saigon" sort of scene, with Barry, Mike and Valjar all scrambling up the ladder. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2020-05-13 20:56 |
| #20 Tehran |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-13 20:31 |
| #19 ^ New Zealand? Or S. Africa? Venezuela?? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-13 20:14 |
| #18 I still believe Bath House will the the first American president to go into foreign exile. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-13 19:05 |
| #17 Watergate in reverse. At the beginning of 1973 IIRC, s.t. like only 25% of Republicans had turned against Nixon. By early summer of 1973 ca. 70% of Republicans thought Nixon should resign. I expect we will see the same process play out now vis-a-vis Biden. And then Obama. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-13 18:58 |
| #16 We'll see...if blood gets in the water...and it has today |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-13 18:56 |
| #15 If I was Sanders I'd walk away from the Democrats and form my own party at this point. He's too old to run again but could play King Maker for the Socialist party. But instead he's working with Biden and Obama to do damage control. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2020-05-13 18:36 |
| #14 Like battered wives: "He hits me because he loves me" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-13 18:35 |
| #13 All that False News claims were 100% true. Obama set them up to sell out their credibility. Gotta wonder if anyone in the media turns on them after 3 years of being manipulated. Naturally most will just continue to dig trench works to defend their guy, but certainly some... |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2020-05-13 18:34 |
| #12 ^Slowly, at first. Then all-of-the-sudden. Like Bankruptcy |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-13 18:34 |
| #11 Next up, some NSA captures of phone calls and emails. Again, this is what it looks like when a dam gives way. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-13 18:30 |
| #10 #9, probably a lot of phone traffic today with DNC LIE execs saying "it's not going to be possible to totally ignore this, it's not even going to be possible to actually spin this..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-13 18:25 |
| #9 Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Clapper, Comey, Biden and others were strangely silent on this. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-05-13 18:17 |
| #8 important enough to publish today Very good. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-05-13 18:04 |
| #7 Plugz is toast. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-13 16:17 |
| #6 What did Zero know and when did he know it? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-13 16:16 |
| #5 NYPost - “They did not have a basis for a counterintelligence investigation against Flynn at that stage, based on a perfectly legitimate and appropriate call he made as a member of the transition,” Barr told CBS News last week. Seems like I read that somewhere, like, three years ago, or 39 months ago. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-05-13 15:57 |
| #4 NYPost take. God bless Ric Grennell |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-13 15:48 |
| #3 The Biden/DNC Spokeshole Xochitl |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-13 15:44 |
| #2 I agree |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-13 15:42 |
| #1 Even though this was posted after the 2:00 p.m. ET deadline, I thought it important enough to publish today rather than waiting for tomorrow. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-05-13 15:39 |