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April 4, 2017

Susan Rice caught ‘unmasking’ Trump aides as Democrats, liberal media do backflips to divert attention

Liz Peek Articles DEMOCRATS, MEDIA, SUSAN RICE, TRUMP

Enough with the smokescreens! Democrats, aided and abetted by their friends in the media, have long dismissed President Trump’s charges that he was “wiretapped” by former President Obama, even as evidence mounts that indeed surveillance of the Trump camp took place, and that information collected by so-called “incidental” monitoring was illegally leaked to the public.

The left would rather focus on speculation that the Trump campaign colluded with Russian agents to undermine Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, even though to date there has been zero evidence to support any such charge.

On Monday, in a revelation that Senator Rand Paul describes as a “smoking gun,” numerous sources outed former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice as behind the “unmasking” of Trump associates picked up through surveillance of foreign nationals.

While Rice had legal access to the electronic eavesdropping, and though her exposure of the identities of the individuals involved might be excused under certain circumstances, it is clear she has lied about her involvement and also about what took place in the Obama White House.

Under the harshest interpretation, it appears that Rice, possibly at the behest of President Obama, collected and distributed classified information about Trump and his associates with the sole purpose of politically damaging the incoming president.

If that is true, President Obama and one of his closest advisers committed a massive breach of trust with the American people; they have also confirmed that their White House was the most politicized in our history.

The story begins with a group within the National Security Council, headed by the senior director of intelligence, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, undertaking a review of the government’s policy on “unmasking.” Presumably they were intent on finding out who discovered, and then illegally leaked, the contents of phone calls between former Security Council chief Mike Flynn and the Russian ambassador, which ultimately led to Flynn’s ouster.

According to journalist Mike Cernovich, who broke the story, “The White House Counsel’s office identified Rice as the person responsible for the unmasking after examining Rice’s document log requests. The reports Rice requested to see are kept under tightly-controlled conditions. Each person must log her name before being granted access to them.”

The logs led National Security Adviser General H.R. McMaster to conclude that Rice had been responsible for uncovering the identities of individuals who were picked up in “incidental” surveillance of foreign nationals. Usually, such persons are reported anonymously to protect their privacy. No one has yet accused Rice of leaking the information that she collected.

McMaster sent an aide, Derek Harvey, to convey that information to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes. The Intelligence Committee chief was widely criticized for going alone to the White House to examine computers which contain the logs, and for meeting with the president afterwards.

Now the ranking minority member on the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff, has also seen the data.

It is telling that after visiting the White House himself and reviewing the information, Rep. Schiff refused to discuss the contents of the documents, but rather focused on the process by which they had come to light. He managed that sleight of hand while chiding President Trump for trying to divert attention away from the Russia probe. Neat.

It is noteworthy that in an interview with PBS “News Hour” anchor Judy Woodruff on March 22, Rice denied Trump’s charges of wiretapping, saying “nothing of the sort occurred.” Rice can argue that Trump’s tweet: “just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” may not be exactly accurate, but Rice’s denial is not truthful either.

That won’t shock us. Many Americans will remember that Rice was the White House point person on Benghazi, telling Americans on the Sunday morning talk shows that the assault on the U.S. compound was a spontaneous outburst caused by an anti-Muslim video.

She knew better, as did the White House.

They knew the attack, which cost the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, was carefully planned and executed – a horrible jihadi assault that contradicted Obama’s narrative of winning the war on terror.

The surveillance that apparently caught up Trump campaign workers and aides, including Michael Flynn, is said to have been legal. Foreign individuals who were wiretapped or otherwise spied on were apparently targeted by U.S. intelligence; some of the information was then handed over to the FBI. Reviewing the reporting on Flynn’s conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak – which got him fired – it is remarkable how little interest was shown by the New York Times and other news organizations in how the sensitive material was collected and distributed. Now those questions appear more pertinent.

It is possible that the surveillance of Trump’s people was not entirely “incidental.” If someone wanted to track Jared Kushner, for instance, who was known to be in communication with Cui Tiankai, the Chinese ambassador to the U.S., intel groups could decide to surveil the latter, and pick up the desired information about Kushner simultaneously. There is no indication that such methods were used to spy on the Trump team, but remember that Nunes said the information he viewed at the White House had nothing to do with Russia. So the surveillance was presumably not an attempt to unearth collusion between the Trump team and Moscow. Also, the logs indicate intelligence gathering on persons associated with Trump that stretch back a year or more. One wonders about the purpose.

There are reports that Rice shared the “unmasked” reports with numerous intelligence organizations. Towards the end of the Obama presidency, the White House loosened the rules on who could receive “raw” intelligence reports. Those changes made it easier to more broadly disseminate materials thought injurious to the incoming president.

These are early days yet in the investigation into the Obama White House’s possible spying on the Trump team. Much remains unknown, including who directed the effort. Was President Obama involved? Did former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper lie when he denied that any wiretapping took place against Trump or his associates? Did FBI Director James Comey lie as well?

It is infuriating to see Democrats and the liberal media doing backflips to direct the focus elsewhere – and especially back to possible collusion between members of the Trump camp and Russia.

To those who would allege that Trump was in cahoots with Putin, I offer this: General James Mattis aka Russia’s worst nightmare. For those not paying attention, President Trump tapped Mattis to be his Secretary of Defense. Does that really jive with a White House eager to cozy up to Putin?

All Americans deserve the truth in both these inquiries. We need to know whether the Trump camp conspired with Russian agents to hack the DNC and John Podesta’s emails, and we need to know whether the Obama White House gathered and leaked surveillance information on Trump or his aides illegally in order to discredit him. Let us hope that our Congressional Committees are up to the task, because it is clear the liberal media is content to investigate only one of these stories.

 

Published on FoxNews.com.

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9 months ago

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Are you better off than you were 2 years ago?
www.foxnews.com/opinion/inflation-hurting-americans-biden-bill-worse-liz-peek
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Inflation already hurting Americans, and Biden's Build Back Better will make things even worse

Are you better off than you were two years ago? That’s what Republicans will ask voters a year from now.

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Inflation is worldwide and COVID induced.

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Swamp Think

Peek's article posted today on the Fox News website did not mention one word about President Trump's accomplishment of not only leading the way to American Energy Independence but for the country to become net exporters of the energy we and our allies could really use now.

Under President Trump, oil was in the low 40s (while on the same page, oil traders are now predicting as high as $200/barrel this month!), gas in our tanks cost below two bucks, inflation was under two percent and gas station attendant Putin with an economy about the size of Italy's and who is totally dependent on the price of energy was placed in an economic cage… by President Trump.

Instead Peek gives credit to media Saint Obama for his "all the above" strategy which consistent with how he operated was all campaign talk with ZERO follow through.

Does Peek not remember that Saint Obama's response to Putin invading Crimea was to send blankets.

If you want a quick read on Swamp Think, check in with Fox News.

From the Murdoch boys and Paul Ryan on down, no one is pushing the self-serving, elite globalists agenda of running the world as their personal piggy bank harder than Fox News.

And how are the globalists doing at managing world affairs?

No Trump, No Trump Doctrine

There's a growing rumble, by the minute, from people all over the planet who are suddenly missing Trump's policies, not necessarily Trump.

First, Trump's policies, domestic and foreign, were clear and common-sense driven which is anathema to the Swamp control freaks who thrive on complication and confusion to mask their real agendas and who they're really working for.

Second, the hypocrites who are now lamenting Trump's policies are the same, domestic and foreign, who fought Trump every inch of the way to prevent the implementation of policies that clearly worked.

Third, without Trump the fighter, no Trump policies would have ever seen the light of day.

And without what is now collectively the Trump Doctrine, what clear metric would we have to truly understand the depth and devastation of the Biden/Swamp debacle?

Don't you know that the global supply chain story is done on purpose for there to be empty shelves at the grocery stores and what not to screw with the public. This is done by the world economic Forum with the likes of Klaus Schwab Bill Gates and George Soros and their ilk

YOU are the delusional personality, dear. Sticking it against the US to please 🖕trump and putin. Disgusting anti American.

Maybe Liz you would support some immigration reform , you bitch about not having enough servers in your entitled selfish world , oh and you are against mask wearing too , how trumpian of you, the pandemic is all a hoax to you , just dont get sick out there might not be any hospital beds for you . The drs and nurses are sick and tired of taking care of anti mask anti vax selfish repubs Go claim your Darwin Award .

President Trump lost the election you are such a dummy he got over 95 million the other yo-yo got about 45 million the rest was fake you're a disgrace. Www.magapill.com

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9 months ago

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Progressives got hammered on Election Day- but that was only the latest big defeat. What does this mean for Dems? Can Joe pivot? (spoiler-probably not)
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Liz have you not heard latest on the “russia collusion” “steele dossier” Fiona Hill???
Or are you a typical msm reporter?

President Trump lost the election you are such a dummy he got over 95 million the other yo-yo got about 45 million the rest was fake you're a disgrace. Www.magapill.com

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9 months ago

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Joe Biden wanted to be an historic president- and he has done that. Worst ratings slide of any president since WWII.
He (or whoever is running WH) doesn’t care about voters’ top issues – instead Team Biden obsessing about climate change, gender and race.
No wonder he’s in trouble!
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The great days turned to very bad days in less than a year.
Congress needs a flip to GOP next year to stop the craziness

Climate change is important.
The GOP may not care about it now, but their children will.
He is trying to get an infrastructure bill through.
He has had issues with Afghanistan, but what else could he do
The people who are taking over Afghanistan were released by the previous administration.
I am sure that Biden is not perfect but he is better than Trump.

Your bias is ridiculous. Makes you a bad writer. Btw avg teacher pay is way above 31000. Sensationalize much?

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Duuuuuh President Trump lost the election you are such a dummy he got over 95 million the other yo-yo got about 45 million the rest was fake you're a disgrace. Www.magapill.com

worst ratings only from a side thats ignorant to the truth. the effects of coming off a pandemic with oil companies profitting off the pumps in order to pay their shareholders back from profits lost. inflation effects the entire world but of course your base doesnt pull their heads out their asses for one second to look around and use common sense. keep spreading bullshit and weakening our country til it no longer functions as a democracy….bc i see through your fake Christian patriotic pow wows. you are the opposite of ehat you claim and you are the definition of what you claim your rivals are. deflection, projection, hypocrisy. 3 words that sum you up

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