Susan Rice: Explains Why She Unmasked Trump Officials

washunut said:

Just have to understand that the political elite, both Republican and democrat HATE TRUMP. So nothing like this matters. Sessions has proven to be ineffective, McConnell & Ryan could care less, while Schumer and Pelosi rejoice.

So unless politicians can pull off a coup, none of this will matter. Fox will cover this stuff, other media outlets are having too much fun using Trump as a punching bag.

Not sure what this means for our democracy, as we seem to be in a never ending tit-for-tat. So the next democratic president can expect to have to go through this impeachment drill.

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GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious “interactions” between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close to UK intelligence said. This intelligence was passed to the US as part of a routine exchange of information, they added.

Over the next six months, until summer 2016, a number of western agencies shared further information on contacts between Trump’s inner circle and Russians, sources said.

The European countries that passed on electronic intelligence – known as sigint – included Germany, Estonia and Poland. Australia, a member of the “Five Eyes” spying alliance that also includes the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand, also relayed material, one source said.

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Tanngrisnir said:

But, despite all the pouting and manic foot-stoimping, she had a perfectly good reason for doing so.

Rice told investigators why she unmasked Trump aides - CNNPolitics

"But her explanation appears to have satisfied some influential Republicans on the committee, undercutting both Nunes and Trump and raising new questions about whether any Trump associates tried to arrange back-channel discussions with the Russians. "I didn't hear anything to believe that she did anything illegal," Florida Rep. Tom Rooney, a Republican helping to lead the panel's Russia invesigation, told CNN of Rice's testimony. He declined to discuss any of the contents of her classified remarks."

Sorry to shoot down the false narrative. Yet again.

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Fenton said:

Susan Rice & Devin Nunes ?Unmasking? Controversy: Did Rice Lie? | National Review


" Former national security adviser Susan Rice privately told House investigators that she unmasked the identities of senior Trump officials to understand why the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates was in New York late last year, multiple sources told CNN.

The Obama administration felt misled by the United Arab Emirates, which had failed to mention that Zayed was coming to the United States even though it’s customary for foreign dignitaries to notify the US government about their travels, according to several sources familiar with the matter. Rice, who served as then-President Obama’s national security adviser in his second term, told the House Intelligence Committee last week that she requested the names of the Americans mentioned in the classified report be revealed internally, a practice officials in both parties say is common."

What ?? So she needed to unmask the identities of Trump officials, who were being wiretapped too, to understand why the Crown Prince of the UAE, which has been a US ally for 40 plus years, was coming to New York ? Lol !

Susan Rice has never been a good liar, but that just makes no sense whatsoever plus it wasn't only Susan Rice unmasking Trump officials. US Ambassador the UN Samantha Powers was also unmasking the identities of Trumps campaign staff.

Former U.N. Amb. Power Unmasked ‘Hundreds’ In Final Year Of Obama Admin
Former U.N. Amb. Power Unmasked 'Hundreds' In Last Year Of Obama Admin

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Fenton said:

" Former national security adviser Susan Rice privately told House investigators that she unmasked the identities of senior Trump officials to understand why the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates was in New York late last year, multiple sources told CNN.​

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Fenton said:

Trump campaign did something questionable ? What are you talking about ?

Susan Rice testified under oath that her unmaskings had nothing to do with Russia.

Again, she stated that Obama asked her to unmask the names of Trump campaign staff ( who were already under surveillance ) to get a better idea of why the Crown prince of the UAE was traveling to New York.

Lol ! Huh ? Talk about questionable, thats Susan Rice doing what she does best, lying.

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Fenton said:

Her first explanation was the " she knew nothing " and I thought Trumps associates needed to be unmasked because they were colluding with Russia ?

Rice admitted had nothing to do with Russia

The problem Rice's second lie is she wasnt the only Obama crony unmasking

Obama's pick for US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Powers unmasked hundreds of people in the last year of Obama's Presidency.

https://www.google.com/amp/freebeac...-unmasked-hundreds-last-year-obama-admin/amp/

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apdst said:

They lied about doing it. Are you ok with that?

They knew they were doing wrong. That's why they lied about it.

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Oreo said:

Look the Trump team was being watched since 2015--and not by U.S. intelligence sources.


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/13/british-spies-first-to-spot-trump-team-links-russia

Which is why Trump Jr. couldn't pull off a secret meeting at the Trump tower in June of 2016.


Which is why Shep Smith knew in February 2017, that Trump surrogates were on the phone with Russian intelligence agents, including the very day that the Russians hacked into DNC databases--while the Trump team denied any contact with Russians during the campaign season 17 times.
Kushner contradicts Trump team's denials of Russia contacts - CNNPolitics

https://youtu.be/fysSDYkhHlU

Mueller has convened 2 Grand Jury's, loaded up on over 15 criminal prosecutors & money laundering experts, and just added the criminal division of the IRS. While Trump is also under investigation for Obstruction of Justice.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/specia...er-using-grand-jury-in-widening-russia-probe/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthon...mp-russia-investigation-the-irs/#5a8ad7d975ac
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...28ba60fbb98_story.html?utm_term=.396996f708d3

It didn't help that Trump went on an NBC interview with Lestor Holt and admitted that he fired Comey over the Russian investigation.


Today--Mueller is having Rod Roseinstein (Deputy Attorney General) testify. Right wing talk show hosts are NOT reporting any of this information, and I doubt FOX News is reporting a lot of it. The only person who is covering every daily detail is your Nemisis, MSNBC--Rachel Maddow.

This is no doubt the most serious scandal in this Nation's history. This is not just a "tit for tat."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-...ndal-pales-in-comparison-with-russian-claims/

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Tanngrisnir said:

Yawn. Same old lies, eh?

And 'believed to have' doesn't equate to 'actually did', esp. from questionable sources.

Two swings and two misses. Rice's motivations and actions were legal and have been justified. No one's asking you to like it.

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Moderate Right said:

And you wouldn't have either if Hillary had won.

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roughdraft274 said:

Just to be clear, you're argument is that if someone lies about their actions, it's because they know that what they did was wrong?

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apdst said:

Why did Rice lie, if she believed she hadn't done anything wrong?

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Fenton said:

Rice, who served as then-President Obama’s national security adviser in his second term, told the House Intelligence Committee last week that she requested the names of the Americans mentioned in the classified report be revealed internally, a practice officials in both parties say is common."

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Kobie said:

You should stop repeating that lie, dude. It's unseemly.

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roughdraft274 said:

Please answer the question.

Is your argument that if someone lies about their actions, it's because they know that what they did was wrong?

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washunut said:

Just have to understand that the political elite, both Republican and democrat HATE TRUMP. So nothing like this matters. Sessions has proven to be ineffective, McConnell & Ryan could care less, while Schumer and Pelosi rejoice.

So unless politicians can pull off a coup, none of this will matter. Fox will cover this stuff, other media outlets are having too much fun using Trump as a punching bag.

Not sure what this means for our democracy, as we seem to be in a never ending tit-for-tat. So the next democratic president can expect to have to go through this impeachment drill.

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Fenton said:

I think Comey's charm is wearing thin and I doubt he's as liked and respected as he once was.

He's a ex-FBI director that by all indications committed obstruction of justice.

He had Hillary exonerated before the FBI interviewed her and the other witnesses and thats never going to wash off

He didnt go rogue and do all this on his own either. The decision to let her walk regardless of the evidence came from Obama, but he agreed to go through with it

I think the reports of FBI rank and file being near mutinous at the time are accurate and his press conference was his way of restoring moral

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apdst said:

Nice dodge. :lamo

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Vern said:

Oh fenton, by now even you know there is nothing wrong with “unmasking”. You posted it. Here read it again.

a practice officials in both parties say is common.

Not illegal. Not nefarious. common. But we both know that you don’t care about the facts. You simply wont let go of a narrative you like no matter how false it is. (tell us again that fannie mae had trillions in subprime debt). Again when it comes time to choose narrative or integrity, conservatives choose narrative. anyhoo, instead of flailing about “unmasking” why not yourself why so many Trump officials were in a position to be “unmasked”.

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Vern said:

tell us again that fannie mae had trillions in subprime debt.

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Excon said:

That doesn't seem like it would be a legal reason to unmask a person.

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cuban smokes said:

Trump certainly does not care about the right things ................. I am learning some crazy stuff from that nutty bastard ...............

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Fenton said:

Oh yea right, sitting Presidents always wiretap the opposition party's campaigns staff, happens all the time. And US Ambassadors to the UN ? They unmask opposition candidates and they're staff all the time too

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I've posted this before Vern, it details the hundreds of billions of dollars of Alt-A and CountryWide debt OMITTED each year from 2004-2008 from Fannie Mae's quarterly SEC reports. I have to assume it too complex for you to understand it

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Fenton said:

The GSEs went bankrupt holding Trillions in debt in Subprime securities and loans and that was all caused by post 2004 Subprime loans.

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Vern said:

Poor fenton, see how you cant address your obedient narrative of “unmasking bad” so you have to quickly deflect with more hyperbole to imply something illegal. If they were illegal wiretaps susan wouldn’t need to unmask anybody. It really is a simply concept. We were wiretapping the russians and trumps campaign staff kept “checking in with them.” I guess you desperately have to avoid trying to explain why so many of trump’s staff were in a position to be unmasked.



Yes Fenton, you have posted it before and always claimed it was "trillions and trillions". You claimed that even after I proved it was false. You would even call me a liar for posting the facts. But that doesn’t address the fact that you used to say “trillions and trillions” even after it was proven a lie. and I actually proved it using your link. thanks for the laughs.

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Fenton said:

No Susan Rice came up with some new lies.
At least she was honest about one thing, the unmaskings had nothing to do with Russia

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A pair of top House Democrats are digging into whether former national security adviser Michael Flynn may have misled officials on his security clearance form about two Middle East trips -- including one reportedly about building $100 billion worth of nuclear energy plants with help from Russia's nuclear power agency.

The top Democrats on the House oversight committee and the House foreign affairs committee sent a request to Flynn's lawyers -- as well as two consultants -- seeking additional documents about a summer 2015 trip he took to the Middle East to float a nuclear energy deal involving Russia.
The letter cites a recent Newsweek article detailing Flynn's previously undisclosed trip and a plan that involved Saudi Arabia selling energy from the nuclear projects to US allies in the Middle East and a promise from those Gulf countries to purchase $100 billion in arms from Russia that otherwise would have been sold to Iran.

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