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How unmasking works – and how it worked under Obama — 15 Comments

  1. Not only was this highly unethical behavior simply “business as usual’ for the MSM, but to suggest otherwise (as in #Obamagate) is to traffic in “conspiracy theories” of the worst kind. So thorough has been the left’s corruption of language that it is now irrefutable that almost every theory derided by progressives as fabricated or unfounded is likely to be largely, if not entirely, true.

  2. Well this certainly sounds like ‘Obamagate’. Just saw a video by Dan Bongino – no unmasking requests of Flynn between Dec. 28 and Jan 5 – so how did the FBI get the transcript and know it was Flynn on the call of Dec 29 as Comey has testified and talked about in the Jan.5 meeting with Obama, etal? The only way was via presidential request from Obama for surveillance of Kislyak – set up the situation by expelling Russian diplomats so Kislyak would certainly call the incoming Trump intelligence head when he was on vacation in Dominican Republic and it would be obvious he was calling Flynn. Interesting.

  3. On a more basic level, since there was never , ever any proof that Trump/Flynn – really anybody from the Trump “team,” – was colluding with the Ruskies, there was never a reason at all to go after Flynn.

    Obama, et. al., under his directions, wished to destroy Flynn because he would reveal all the dirty and illegal crap conducted during Obama’s presidency. After all, Flynn had been a member of Obama’s intelligence staff for two years, as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and was fully aware of all the illegal activities that Obama was running.
    Flynn knew where all the bodies were buried and Obama had to “eliminate” him.
    Thus the scheme to get Flynn.

    Obama and those who conspired to overthrow Trump, should be EXECUTED for treason. Hanging them would be appropriate.

  4. Douglas Park:

    Dan Bongino is following up on the info that there was no unmasking requested for Flynn’s call to Russian Ambassador Krysliac (sic?) on Dec 29. The POTUS can authorize surveillance w/o unmasking with concurrence from the Attorney General (Loretta Lynch). So all the BS from Judge A. Sullivan would be expected in order to protect BHO.

    https://soundcloud.com/dan-bongino

  5. Neo said: “This may indicate Flynn and other Trump transition officials were being targeted for unmasking as part of a fishing expedition to find dirt on them to undermine Trump’s presidency.”

    This is certainly what I believe. Whether or not they expected to find dirt, they for sure wanted to undermine Trump’s presidency. It takes a special kind of partisanship to want to do this, and even more to believe an American election can be turned over between the election and the week of the inauguration.

    But remember the moment: Democrats were begging electors to be faithless, then they were calling on Republican members of the government to invoke the 25th amendment, then they leaked the “pee tape” story, then they had the women’s march in half a dozen cities (and do I remember correctly there was a women’s march in one or two foreign capitals?) the day of the inauguration, and then they cranked up the Russia collusion story. This was all in the time frame between November 5th and January 25th. That’s a stunning list of insubordination and treason, amirite?

    And through it all, there was an amazing lack of pushback from either Republicans or from the press. So they thought they could just continue their treasonous acts, and they have, indeed, done so.

  6. F:

    That wasn’t something I said. It was a quote from the linked article.

    I believe it’s true, but I didn’t write it.

  7. Thomas Lifson picks up a post by J E Dyer I linked a couple of days ago, and makes sense of the deep details.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/the_emotheremsecrets_inside_grenells_satchel_are_the_key_to_the_biggest_political_scandal_in_us_history.html

    May 15, 2020
    The other secrets inside Grenell’s satchel are the key to the biggest political scandal in US history
    By Thomas Lifson
    That satchel that Acting DNI Ric Grenell personally delivered to the Department of Justice on May 7, 2020 was far too big for just a list of the 39 Obama administration officials, including his chief of staff and ambassador to Italy. Those higher ups have been exposed as requesting the unmasking of General Flynn. But there must have been a lot more inside, and that material was voluminous to require a briefcase-sized container, and that is the key to exposing the real extent of the spy operation that President Obama carried out on his political enemies, and the unmasking of General Michael Fynn is just the tip of the iceberg.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/05/13/beyond-biden-brennan-and-clapper-how-grenells-satchel-tells-us-this-is-on-the-right-track/

    There’s an understandable impatience and frustration from many with how long it’s taking to see visible action from the Obamagate investigators. We’ve been getting clues and “bombshells” for a long time now, and yet nothing concrete seems to happen.

    What I’ll briefly lay out here is the case that it’s going to happen soon – it might be any day now – and we know that from the appearance of Grenell with the satchel at the Justice Department, along with a very few, easy-to-miss words of tweet in journalist Adam Housley’s feed in the last 48 hours.

    The clues are minimal, but if you know how to read them, you know that the investigators at DOJ and in the intel community have gone right where they needed to go, and they’ve hit the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

    What will blow the whole thing wide open is simply this: laying bare the nexus of the operation at the National Security Council staff.

  8. Crooked cops doing dirty work. Unmasking for politics. That’s illegal. Leaking the info, very illegal – known and clear to be illegal. “For politics” is always an arguable question.

    I believe Obama is the top crooked cop.

    I don’t believe he’ll be indicted before Nov. With the increase in smoke, I’d guess there’s more and more thinking a fire is there or about to be there.

    Last year Durham was supposed to give indictments by June; I understand the current thought is end of summer. Indictments after the election are still important, but much less so.

    Hoping for; expecting, not so much.

  9. Bho brought Chicago style politics to DC. Bald faced corruption, nasty smear campaigns against enemies, lies and distortions, and never ending abuse of power. I could have added voter fraud, but that has been going on since 1960.

  10. As Liberty is the topic du jour, I thought I would post Dyer’s Twitter slogan (I’m sure there is a social-media-name for it).
    J.E. Dyer @OptimisticCon
    Retired Naval officer deconstructing the shibboleths of modern leftist-progressivism. Standing athwart history yelling Bring it!

  11. I agree with JohnTyler as to why Obama and his minions went after Flynn.

    “Obama and those who conspired to overthrow Trump, should be EXECUTED for treason. Hanging them would be appropriate.”

    Treason is a very high bar to prove with specific terms. More practical to charge the guilty with easily proven crimes. The consequence may be less than truly proportionate to the offense but avoids a probable hung jury even with sufficient evidence or possible not guilty verdict, due to “insufficient” evidence.

    As well as denying the left any future ‘martyrs’.

    And given the racial ‘component’ to hangings, I prefer as humane an execution as possible, followed with placing the executed’s heads on pikes… for its deterrent value.

  12. The past week has provided very useful information. The most useful, in my opinion, is the release of the transcripts of top officials revealing under oath that they had no evidence of any of the accusations that they were making about Trump. They told the truth to the committee behind closed doors, but did not tell the truth to the American voters. They lied, through their teeth and in public. One of their biggest complaints against the President is that he is described as a liar. After this most recent revelation, will the Dems and their media acolytes still be bringing up their complaints about Trump’s integrity? Of course, yes. This business is a one way street.

  13. Never forget this — even the people who hated Trump could not come up with evidence against him — although I still don’t understand why they didn’t just make it up, as they did with the Steele Dossier.

    https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1257694425687482374
    “Remember John Ratcliffe destroyed Robert Mueller and his entire sham investigation in four minutes.
    THIS is why the swamp is scared.”

    The next best line is at the 2:00 minute mark.
    The best is at the end.

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