President Richard Milhous Nixon (Watergate Scandal)
Image credit: Washington Times, 9/2/2016 article by Valerie Richardson
President Barack Hussein Obama (SpyGate Scandal?)
Image credit: Business Insider, 1/20/2017 article by Bob Bryan
Nixon didn’t PERSONALLY break into the office of the Democratic National Committee located in the Watergate Building in Washington DC but he did desperately and unsuccessfully attempt to cover up the entire sordid affair. – http://www.history.com/topics/watergate
Likewise, Obama may not have PERSONALLY ordered the illegal electronic surveillance of senior private individuals associated with Trump, and perhaps even Trump himself. However, if Obama WAS personally involved (which I suspect to be the case) this is a VERY SERIOUS CRIME attributable to him.
WE NOW KNOW THAT ATTORNEY SUSAN RICE, FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR UNDER OBAMA, WAS DIRECTLY INVOLVED:
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.
“The overheard conversations involved no illegal activity by anybody of the Trump associates, or anyone they were speaking with,” diGenova said. “In short, the only apparent illegal activity was the unmasking of the people in the calls.”
Other knowledgeable official sources with direct knowledge and who requested anonymity confirmed to TheDCNF diGenova’s description of surveillance reports Rice ordered one year before the 2016 presidential election.
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Was Surveillance of Trump and His Colleagues “Incidental” or Intentional?
AND WHO “ORDERED” IT?
The Post & Email
by Sharon Rondeau
4/3/2017
Excerpt:
(Apr. 3, 2017) — In an amplification of several earlier internet and broadcast reports from Fox News, on Monday Adam Housley revealed that former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice was said by intelligence sources to have played a role in “unmasking” the names of U.S. citizens, and specifically, Trump and those associated with his presidential campaign, in intelligence reports to which she was privy.
Housley described the “surveillance” of Trump and his campaign colleagues as “incidental,” meaning that phone calls in which they participated or discussed were aimed at a foreign citizen or citizens.
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It Starts With Rice: What did Obama know and when did he know it?
The tentacles of this could lead straight to Obama…
Canada Free Press
by Chip McLean
4/4/2017
Excerpt:
Now that Susan Rice has been exposed as the Obama official who authorized the unmasking of Trump transition team members, it is time to find out what other Obama officials – including Obama himself – knew about this highly unethical, and possibly illegal action by the former national security adviser.
This is the same Susan Rice who told bald faced lies for days about the Benghazi attack that killed ambassador Chris Stevens and three others. Rice kept repeating the demonstrable lie that the attack was prompted by a video.
“I see nothing, I know nothing”
This is the same Susan Rice who also claimed in 2014 that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl “served the United States with honor and distinction” and that he “wasn’t simply a hostage; he was an American prisoner of war captured on the battlefield.” Bergdahl is currently awaiting court martial for desertion and other charges.
Rice claimed as recently as last month when questioned about the unmasking reports that she knew ‘nothing about this’. She might as well have been Hogan’s Heroes’ Sgt. Schultz saying “I see nothing, I know nothing”.
This is serious business. Americans who are caught up in incidental surveillance in foreign intelligence gatherings are not supposed to have their names revealed, unless this would be relevant to the actual foreign intelligence. That Susan Rice authorized this before and after the election leads to question of motive, and that motive could easily be to harm the Trump campaign and then later, undermine the Trump presidency.
It has now been revealed by former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova that Rice ordered ‘detailed spreadsheets’ of Donald Trump and his aides – while he was running for president.
It is difficult to imagine that Susan Rice authorized all of this this on her own
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http://canadafreepress.com/article/it-starts-with-rice-what-did-obama-know-and-when-did-he-know-it
Rand Paul Calls For Susan Rice To Testify On Unmasking Trump Officials
The Daily Caller
by Juliegrace Brufke, Capitol Hill Reporter
4/3/2017
Excerpt:
GOP Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he believes former National Security Advisor Susan Rice should testify before Congress on her request to unmask the names of Trump transition officials collected during routine intelligence-gathering operations.
Paul argued the situation should not be downplayed, saying reforms need to be made to prevent individuals from being blackmailed on personal aspects of their lives through unmasking. He noted there was nothing stopping the former administration from looking through Trump officials and national security advisors’ conversations during the transition window.
“If it is allowed, we shouldn’t be allowing it, but I don’t think should just discount how big a deal it is that Susan Rice was looking at these,” he told reporters Monday. “And she needs to be asked, ‘Did President Obama ask her to do this? Was this a directive from President Obama? I think she should testify under oath on this.”
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http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/03/rand-paul-calls-for-susan-rice-to-testify-on-unmasking-trump-officials/
LOL
“But I thought Obama had a scandal-free administration?” – by ‘Brittany Pettibone
Twitter link — https://twitter.com/BrittPettibone/status/849321532648194050
Susan Rice’s White House Unmasking: A Watergate-style Scandal
National Review
by Andrew C. McCarthy
4/4/2017
Excerpt:
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Because we’ve been told for weeks that any unmasking of people in Trump’s circle that may have occurred had two innocent explanations: (1) the FBI’s investigation of Russian meddling in the election and (2) the need to know, for purposes of understanding the communications of foreign intelligence targets, the identities of Americans incidentally intercepted or mentioned. The unmasking, Obama apologists insist, had nothing to do with targeting Trump or his people.
That won’t wash.
In general, it is the FBI that conducts investigations that bear on American citizens suspected of committing crimes or of acting as agents of foreign powers. In the matter of alleged Russian meddling, the investigative camp also includes the CIA and the NSA. All three agencies conducted a probe and issued a joint report in January. That was after Obama, despite having previously acknowledged that the Russian activity was inconsequential, suddenly made a great show of ordering an inquiry and issuing sanctions.
Consequently, if unmasking was relevant to the Russia investigation, it would have been done by those three agencies. And if it had been critical to know the identities of Americans caught up in other foreign intelligence efforts, the agencies that collect the information and conduct investigations would have unmasked it. Because they are the agencies that collect and refine intelligence ‘products’ for the rest of the ‘intelligence community,’ they are responsible for any unmasking; and they do it under ‘minimization’ standards that FBI Director James Comey, in recent congressional testimony, described as ‘obsessive’ in their determination to protect the identities and privacy of Americans.
Understand: There would have been no intelligence need for Susan Rice to ask for identities to be unmasked. If there had been a real need to reveal the identities — an intelligence need based on American interests — the unmasking would have been done by the investigating agencies.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/446415/susan-rice-unmasking-trump-campaign-members-obama-administration-fbi-cia-nsa
Truth of Susan Rice Unmasking Trump Transition Team Scandal is in the Timeline
Timeline of Susan Rice spying scandal
Canada Free Press
by Judi McLeod
4/5/2017
Excerpt:
Truth seekers on the Internet should rain all over the Mexican Carlos Slim-owned New York Time’s planned Page 1 hate hit on documentary filmmaker and ‘Gorilla Mindset’ author Mike Cernovich, by getting ahead of it.
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http://canadafreepress.com/article/truth-of-susan-rice-unmasking-trump-transition-team-scandal-is-in-the-timel
Funny how no ‘unmasking’ was done for the Hillary campaign
American Thinker / Blog
by Jack Hellner
4/5/2017
Excerpts:
Why hasn’t anyone asked James Clapper, James Comey or Susan Rice why no calls were inadvertently picked up on Hillary Clinton or any of her campaign team? If the government was worried about collusion, wouldn’t they listen in on both sides?
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Anyone who believes that Trump wasn’t specifically targeted for political reasons probably still believes the Benghazi killings were caused by a video, that Obama had no idea that IRS was targeting political opponents, that Obama had no idea that Hillary was violating the law by using a non secure server until three years after she left, that Obama had no idea that his administration was gun running to Mexico and that Hillary and her aides had no intent to break the law.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/04/funny_how_no_unmasking_happened_for_the_hillary_campaign.html
What Did Obama Request from Susan Rice?
FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER INCLUDES BOSS IN THE DISCUSSION
The Post & Email
by Sharon Rondeau
3/5/2017
Excerpt:
(Apr. 5, 2017) — In a Tuesday interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice denied requesting the identities of “U.S. persons” contained in intelligence reports she reviewed. Rather, she brought in her former boss, Barack Hussein Obama, to the equation by stating that he had requested “the compilation of the intelligence that was ultimately provided in January” (6:10).
Rice said that “asking for the identity” of an American citizen whose name is captured in foreign surveillance is “not the same” as leaking it.
When Mitchell told Rice that she has been accused of leaking the name of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, Rice denied it and added that those leaking names of U.S. persons are “doing something very wrong.”
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Andrew McCarthy explains: No, Susan Rice would have had no legitimate reason to ask for the unmasking
That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works
Canada Free Press
by Dan Calabrese
4/5/2017
Excerpt:
The reason I so often reference Andrew McCarthy is that there are so many things that happen concerning the workings of the Justice Department, national security and intelligence agencies . . . and much of what you hear about it comes from people who have never worked in or around these environments and don’t really know how they work.
McCarthy has, and he does.
So when we get a story like the Susan Rice unmasking case, and the media tell you it’s no big deal and not a story, check with McCarthy. Because he can not only tell you if it is or is not a legitimate story, he can also explain how and why:
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http://canadafreepress.com/article/andrew-mccarthy-explains-no-susan-rice-would-have-had-no-legitimate-reason
Did Obama Order or Approve of the Political Use of Trump Surveillance?
The New American
by Steve Byas
4/5/2017
Excerpt:
In one of the most memorable moments of American history, Senator Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) asked his famous question regarding the Watergate Scandal engulfing the Nixon administration: “What did the president know and when did he know it?”
Clearly, Baker’s question cut to the heart of the matter. It was the question that all Americans wanted to know: Did their president order, or even approve of illegal activity?
Amazingly, however, the American media is now generally quite uninterested in asking a similar question today, a question related to the revelation that President Barack Obama’s national security advisor, Susan Rice (shown in center), asked for the “unmasking” of members of the Trump Transition Team who were surveilled by U.S. government intelligence. And then that “intelligence” material just happened to later wind up in the possession of media unfriendly to Trump.
Instead of exercising the natural curiosity that is Journalism 101, the mainstream (liberal) media have not asked the question that is “the elephant in the room”: What role, if any, did President Obama play in the decision to “unmask” Trump aides who engaged in conversations with foreigners during the time between Trump’s election as president in November 2016 and his taking the oath of office on January 20, 2017?
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https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/25768-did-obama-order-or-approve-of-the-political-use-of-trump-surveillance