Senate Republicans released a list of Obama administration officials who sought to "unmask" names of Americans in intelligence reports in the weeks before President Donald Trump took office, the latest salvo to discredit the FBI's Russia investigation and accuse the previous administration of wrongdoing over the prosecution of Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson and Sen. Chuck Grassley released a document that was declassified last week by acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, which names Obama administration officials who "may have received" Flynn's identity in National Security Agency intelligence reports after requests to unmask Americans.
On their own, the documents do not prove any wrongdoing. The unmasking requests are a routine part of intelligence work, and there's no evidence that the requests were made for political purposes. The National Security Agency said in its declassified memo disclosing the names that all of the officials had the authority to view the reports and the NSA's standard procedures were followed.
In the NSA foreign intelligence reports, the names of Americans are redacted, or "masked." Certain authorized US officials have the authority to request the names of those individuals if they have a justifiable reason. As a result, when the officials made the unmasking requests declassified on Wednesday, they wouldn't have known whether Flynn was the individual whose identity was redacted.
#Flynn #CNN #News
GOP senators reveal Obama officials who sought to ‘unmask’ names
Up is down, black is white and the sun is the moon “believe me”
@Mutual Decline hE bRoKe a LAw
@James Tuckner Your rebuttals are without merit & it’s obvious that you don’t know anything about precedent nor our constitution. Idiot, every amendment has limits. Freedom of speech has LIMITS.
EX. IF I GO INTO A WALMART & MAKE A TERRORISTIC THREAT, I WILL BE ARRESTED & CHARGED. I CAN CLAIM FOR A DEFENSE AT TRIAL THAT I HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH PER THE CONSTITUTION, THEREFORE I HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY WHAT I WANT. I’LL BE CONVICTED! THESE CASES HAVE PRECEDENCE!!!!
ALSO, BILL OF RIGHTS HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR ARGUMENT OR THE FACT THAT YOU BELIEVE OBAMA PERSONALLY CHARGED SNOWDEN WITH A CRIME!
@James Tuckner Good lord you change subjects more than blink my eyes. First you claim Obama charged Snowden, then u bring up the Bill Of Rights now you’re asking me to answer WHY did Snowden do what he did. Amazing.
Joseph Goebbel’s propaganda strategy was simple and bold: he was an expert in what he called “the big lie.” The idea was that the public doesn’t care about the truth. What they want to hear is something that is simple, that seems to solve their problems, and you say it again and again and again. It doesn’t matter if it corresponds to the facts or not; you just keep saying it and sooner or later the people will start to believe it.
NSA asking to unmask names as NSA has the right to do is the big Obamagate? Spare me.
@Sean M TRUMPGATE !
NSA? she lied under oath “Power claimed: “Any time a U.S. person or entity’s name came to me disclosed or annotated, or where I requested it and it came back, I never discussed it with another member of the human race. … I have no recollection of making a request related to General Flynn.”” that’s a lie.
The libs can’t handle the truth..thats why the majority of them are all on some type of drug..
Unmasking the incoming national security advisor with no evidence of wrongdoing as part of a Russian collusion investigation started from a fake Russian dossier. They destroyed this mans life because they didn’t like trump simple as that. People see what they want to see I guess..
@Mike Smith it’s called MSLSD
trump said Article 2 let’s him do “whatever he wants”.
Obama was president, too😉
jwerd32 Are you so dumb that you did not understand what they just explained?
@uncle Ricky can’t have one without the other, Sally. Sorry. If the economy is his the trump virus is his as well.😉 (guess which one happened entirely during his administration. go ahead…)
Lot trolls and other stupid here buying into tRump’s Obama-gate joke. It was sarcasm, fools.
@Major Minor dumbass your master was already named a co conspirator to campaign finance violations
Careful Lumpy, your desperation is showing.
CNN just contradicted every statement they made they just lie right to us repeatedly obvious lies.WTF. you are so right unreal they are desperately frustrated and now know know that there is no Fucking way to save Biden. He will not get the nomination no fucking way .He has mental psychological issues.
Wolf isn’t that lumpy for an overpriced, stuffed shirt and ventriloquist’s dummy.
Watch 60 Minutes: How dishonest politics upended a coronavirus researchers funding
@Anthony Supplee ha ha ha you use a conservative propaganda group who have been caught altering videos and paying people to lie as a credible source no wonder you are a cult member
A B LoL. Crap, we can get paid for this? I guess I am challenged, because I’ve been doing this for free this whole time.
@Michael Rouppas…Yeah, sure…a return to the kind of government envisioned by Jefferson…but first we boil Trump in oil, then we execute his family, and all his deranged followers.
@Mike Hall What exactly is trump right about? tell me 1 single thing.
Bruce Boring You mean the lie about Obama spying on him…oh yeah 🙄 Have you still not figured out the people telling you that are the same people who told you Russia was taking over. Your dumba$$ probably still believes that 💩
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be very careful talking bad about black Jesus. You might find yourself floating down river. Hillary and Obama have people who take care of problem starters.
If Dr king was here today I can’t say with confidence what side he would be on.
@Bo Shepherd like 45 TANG did remember BARR WAS THE LAST ONE TO SEE 45 TANG’S BESTIE THE PIMP OF THE LOLITA’S! . OK
@Bo Shepherd if you knew history MLK LEFT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ALSO AND JOINED THE POVERTY PARTY OK! . SO WHO DO YOU THINK SIDE HE WOULD BE ON .
@Bo Shepherd He would probably be off the side of a building. Sodium and retardation levels are off the charts on both sides.
Still can’t get over Obama
Solstice of Snow Ouch! Does it hurt to be that stupid?!
Trump said it himself “I’m not a doctor!”
He didn’t save anybody.
@Solstice of Snow go away a paragraph of Bullshit
Lol @ liberals who don’t know what obamagate is yet. What’s wrong? Your media hasn’t allowed you to hear about it yet?
CJ R And he’s still the most popular president in recent history. Not too bad.
Believe me he’s no embarrassment. You’re just embarrassed he have no basis for your hate.
He served through one of the most tumultuous eras in American history. So in a sense he did part the Red Sea.
Sad that Trump and the GOP will be drowned by his wake because they couldn’t let go of their animus.
Unmask tRump’s Tax Return!!
@Bret A. Mason Um, because he promised he would?
Sorry, I forgot promises don’t mean anything to him, and that his fanatic followers don’t even care that he lies to them all the time..
Trish Sanford – he said he would when the audit was over. Apparently, the audit is never over for a guy like Trump. He is the most persecuted president in the history of our country and you are a fucking traitor.
Mike Smith 👍👍👍
@Bret A. Mason yes it’s is Every President did what Trump got to hide
He can’t unmask what he can’t show. Anything he has is laundered thru Deutsche bank !
Oh we’re going back to that old Playbook. It’s so obvious.
russia !
Pamela I m exactly!!!!
Stormy Daniels or Russia or fake impeachment…lol
@Mike Smith Hate to tell ya dumbass but that impeachment was 100% real and still remain on his record.
Lol @ liberals who don’t know what obamagate is yet. What’s wrong? Your media hasn’t allowed you to hear about it yet?
So let me get this straight- people with enough security clearance to know who needed looking into over as a matter of national security … did their job. Lol.
@A One trumpergate …
@Sean M yes because it’s classified information, you are asked to lie and deny your knowledge or use if it.
You cannot reveal any information of what you did with it under any circumstances. What part don’t you understand.
So people who were not Mueller’s purview are finally getting questioned on the fake, BS, Russian dossier hoax? The nothing burger that CNN losers, like Wolf Blitzer, milked like a cash cow for three years? The conspiracy theory CNN lied about for a cheap paycheck instead of learning the truth doing real journalism?
fireson23 correct. It is rich though that trumpets are suddenly concerned about people lying!
@Uncle Voodoo we know Dem been lying 😂😂😂
Flynn and all the traitors in the GOP need to be unmasked. This is just a distraction for the covid19 fiasco.
Somebody’s doin’ a lot of unmaskin’ and it aint Trump
@Mike Smith You’re hilarious. That bleating you hear? That’s you, dude.
For breaking the Logan Act? Maybe you should do your research
they threatened his daughter y’know
Lol @ liberals who don’t know what obamagate is yet. What’s wrong? Your media hasn’t allowed you to hear about it yet?
Trump: President
Americans: Losing lives and livelihoods
Trump’s Actions: Obsess about Obama 😑
AP AS wat corruption
Fun to watch you squirm like a worm on a hook 😂😂😂😂🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Harry Helen another Trump parrot.
@Mo A yup
yeh democrats were obsessed with impeachment as the crisis was unfolding.
Anything to try and distract when your a$$ is in the hot seat!!🔥🔥🔥
@Mr A How many times you keep saying that
@George Fields loser 😂😂😂
@George Fields when Trump beats Joe so bad, I bet you will be yelling,”He cheated”!
@Lora Larose you a Moron
@Mr A that’s the only way but it won’t happen
U see how it easy to declassify documents when it involves the other side?Let it be trump and they will give u 1000 excuse not to
festus mansaray – Yep. Let’s see the un-redacted Mueller report!
Right? He hasn’t give you anything, no proof, just because he spit something it doesn’t make it true. just sit down and wait for your feelings to be hurt when you find out the truth, but I guess when that happens you are just going to find another way to be happy in your own made up world
Lol @ liberals who don’t know what obamagate is yet. What’s wrong? Your media hasn’t allowed you to hear about it yet?
@Micah Ben-Avraham keep swallowing individual 1s lies moron
@Micah Ben-Avraham Seeing as you can’t even explain it you don’t even know what it is.
Trump: “And I suspect you’ll have even bigger stories coming out”
Well… yeah that’s pretty easy to predict when you’re gonna be creating these stories 🤷🏽♂️
Are you daft? The democrats committed treasonous coup with the help of the media and have been able to brainwash and inoculate their followers like Hitler and the Stuermer, did . Disgusting that Americans still believe China News Network.
@Bertrand de Born moron
@David Wilson What a primitive statement.You are an example of the Stockholm syndrome. Fight for your enslavement and for China’s rule.
idopoliti 🤷🏼♂️. Think man think.
@David Wilson short and sweet love it
Satan: ” welcome to hell”! Trump: ” big deal..I bet you voted for me too”! Satan: “hey, I’m evil..not stupid”!!!!!!
Ah, when Republicans can’t win on merit…
It’s illegal to Unmask for political reasons and leak masked names.
Republicans give you the right to have free speech remember that.
Oh flynn innocent 😂😂😂Hillary innocent too
Your a sheep
Lol @ liberals who don’t know what obamagate is yet. What’s wrong? Your media hasn’t allowed you to hear about it yet?
The chosen one can’t show his taxes. Pathetic
@Ben with Trump Troll watching Fake Fox news
Won’t . . . .show them. Yes, pathetic.
@Mr A You read it said nothing like that
@George Fields your comprehension must be lacking or your in denial. Face it, you been eating their crap up for so long, you forgot how truth tastes.
@George Fields
You seem to be incapable of commenting in complete and coherent sentences, which obviously shows you’re nothing more than a cnn doormat.
When you are corrupt cheat lie mislead, you think everyone else is the same as you are.
Joe Biden himself said nothing for 3 years, Susan Rice on the record saying “I don’t remember unmasking so many or why” Adam Schiff hide this for 3 years until the DOJ unclassified showing he lied. So for from the start The Obama Administration went after The Trump Administration resulting in three + years of investigations,impeachment etc… millions a pond millions of dollars spent only to find these clear cases of political bias that destroyed peoples lives like Flynn and Trump. Yet CNN chooses now to keep blaming Trump and putting it down as all Trump. When it was clearly ALL OBAMA. This is all CNN has reported on 24/7 for that time, Yet now your saying it’s only a distraction from the Coronavirus !!! Are you saying Trump planned all of this from the start Now?