Susan Rice takes heat for past claims on Syria chemical weapons purge

OpportunityCost said:

Plainly partisan stupidity. The question is was the unmasking done as a national security matter or as a political expediency; which was the motivation?

You don't even want to ask the question. Would you be so reluctant if say, Steven Bannon did the same thing? I doubt it.

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Moot said:

The fact that the FBI approved the unmasking and that the name hasn't been leaked or declassified would highly suggest that it was a national security matter and not a political one.

So what is your motivation for falsely accusing someone of a crime they didn't commit? Purely political, I suspect.

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OpportunityCost said:

You can back that up with a reliable source?

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Rogers stressed that the identities of U.S. persons picked up through “incidental collection” — in which investigating agents hear the words of people conversing with the targets of a wiretap — are disclosed only on a “valid, need-to-know” basis, and usually only when there is criminal activity or a potential threat to the United States at play.

Comey confirmed that individuals within the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, the Justice Department and others — including personnel in the White House, in some situations — could have requested the unmasking of the names of U.S. persons. But he stressed that only the collecting agency, whether it’s the FBI, the NSA or the CIA, can unmask the identities of people.

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Moot said:

Only the agency that collected the names can unmask them. So for Rice to unmask a name in an intelligence report she would've had to make a formal request to the agency that made the report and she would've had to justify that it was for "foreign intelligence purpose" and then the request would've been reviewed by that agency to determine if the reason was valid. Since it was intelligence gathered from a FISA warrant the collecting agency most likely was the NSA or FBI.

Fmr. FBI agent defines the Susan Rice unmasking | On Air Videos | Fox Business


FBI Director James Comey and NSA head Michael Rogers testimony to House Intelligence Committee...



https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...83e627dc120_story.html?utm_term=.e68561edc1b8

Full transcript here...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ence-in-2016-election/?utm_term=.186a43ddfc52

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OpportunityCost said:

Jeez Moot. Yes, only the agency can unmask them, but the intel is then received by the person making the request that it be done, and as the NSA, Rice could have done that. I don't know who you think you are fooling with this line of nonsense but it isn't me. Part of the reason why we need the basis for the request to unmask US citizens in intel is to get to the bottom of why...as in motivation.

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Moot said:

Stop being obtuse, OC. If you already knew that information, then why did you ask? The only legal motive for unmasking a name is for "foreign intelligence purposes" and it would've been extremely difficult for Rice to make a request for any other purpose as described in the links I posted. So you can speculate on her motive all you want...but until you can prove that she actually committed a crime, you're just spinning your wheels and wasting time.

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