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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Dan Bongino explains 'unmasking, reverse targeting, incidental collection.'
2020-05-15
[YouTube] Ep. 1250 This Is Just The Beginning of the Spying Scandal - The Dan Bongino Show: In this episode, I address the disturbing new evidence that emerged showing that the spying scandal on Mike Flynn and the Trump team was more widespread than previously believed.


Related:
Mike Flynn: 2020-05-14 'Samantha Power Claimed She Never Tried To Unmask Michael Flynn, But Records Show She Unmasked Him 7 Times
Mike Flynn: 2020-05-12 DNI Richard Grenell Declassifies List of Obama Officials Involved in ‘Unmasking’ Flynn in His Conversations with Kislyak
Mike Flynn: 2020-05-11 We're Winning

In the absence of 'unmasking requests' and an obvious problem with chronology, Dan makes a very good case for potential FIVE EYES bilateral intelligence production on Mike Flynn being passed to our Intelligence Community. Here is a 2017 CNN article he cites as a tipper or evidence.

Not mentioned by Bongino, but could easily support his theory - Telegraph: UK GCHQ director Robert Hannigan resigns, Jan 2017.
Posted by:Besoeker

#13  YW, no prob
Posted by: Frank G   2020-05-15 15:02  

#12  Thanks!
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-15 14:32  

#11  Link
Posted by: Frank G   2020-05-15 14:22  

#10  The "unmasking" stuff is a sideshow.
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-15 14:19  

#9  Frank could you please post the link above to blogger/retired naval officer JE Dyer's lengthy description of the 702 data mining operation?

Tia,
L.
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-15 14:17  

#8  Here are the numbers for "FISA Section 702" inquiries from 2012-2016 -- per J.E.Dyer "These are the queries that enabled desk jockeys at the federal agencies and the NSC staff to view USPI [US person information] – without having to record a formal unmasking request."

2013: ..9,500
2014: 17,500
2015: 23,800
2016: 30,355


The number of these “non-contents,” search queries under FISA Section 702 is massive.

This was run out of the White House and it went far, far beyond Flynn.
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-15 14:15  

#7  ^ Good catch
Posted by: Frank G   2020-05-15 14:01  

#6  The key stat is (per John Solomon and Sara Carter) the "threefold increase in searches during Ibana's second term."

Solomon's latest is here.
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-15 13:21  

#5  Does anyone know how many unmasking a year are requested by politicians vs spies who might have business doing so?

The answer's probably somewhere in this DNI "Statistical Transparency Report Regarding the Use of National Security Authorities" dated April 2020
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-15 13:18  

#4  And we thought the Chicoms were bad.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-05-15 12:52  

#3  So you gotta be careful what you say on the phone.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-05-15 12:51  

#2  Some low level bureaucrat could be perusing transcripts of all you phone conversations as we speak.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-05-15 12:50  

#1  MSNBC has shown the talking points the left is going with. Tens of thousands of unmasking every year. This is nothing.

Does anyone know how many unmasking a year are requested by politicians vs spies who might have business doing so.

Does anyone ever really review those unmaskings to find out how many are truly legitimate and how many are spying on the ex-girlfriend type things?
Posted by: ruprecht   2020-05-15 08:36  

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