Susan
Rice, who served as the National Security Adviser under President Obama, has
been identified as the official who requested unmasking of incoming Trump
officials, Cernovich Media can exclusively report.
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.
Upon
learning of Rice’s actions, H. R. McMaster dispatched his close aide Derek
Harvey to Capitol Hill to brief Chairman Nunes.
“Unmasking” is the process of identifying individuals whose
communications were caught in the dragnet of intelligence gathering. While
conducting investigations into terrorism and other related crimes, intelligence
analysts incidentally capture conversations about parties not subject to the
search warrant. The identities of individuals who are not under investigation
are kept confidential, for legal and moral reasons.
Under
President Obama, the unmasking rules were changed. Circa originally reported:
As his presidency drew to
a close, Barack Obama’s top aides routinely reviewed intelligence reports
gleaned from the National Security Agency’s incidental intercepts of Americans
abroad, taking advantage of rules their boss relaxed starting in 2011 to help
the government better fight terrorism, espionage by foreign enemies and hacking
threats, Circa has learned.
Three
people close to President Obama, including his “fall guy” for Benghazi (Susan Rice), had
authorization to unmask.
Among those cleared to
request and consume unmasked NSA-based intelligence reports about U.S. citizens
were Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice, his CIA Director John
Brennan and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Not
even mainstream outlets denied that some Trump officials had been spied
on, with the NY Times reporting:
WASHINGTON — A
pair of White House officials helped provide Representative Devin Nunes of
California, a Republican and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee,
with the intelligence reports that showed that President Trump and his
associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy
agencies.
According
to WaPo, there were three sources for the reports, with Michael
Ellis ultimately being blamed by WaPo and AP.
What’s
striking about the Times story is the spin it took. Trump had previously
claimed he had been “wire tapped” (quotation marks in his original Tweet),
leading to media screams that he prove it. The Times’ own reporting proves that
President Trump and his associates were spied on.
The
Times, rather than admit Trump had been vindicated, instead focused its
attention on the question of who leaked the reports to Nunes:
Since disclosing the
existence of the intelligence reports, Mr. Nunes has refused to identify his
sources, saying he needed to protect them so others would feel safe going to
the committee with sensitive information. In his public comments, he has
described his sources as whistle-blowers trying to expose wrongdoing at great
risk to themselves.
Since
when did journalists attempt to unmask sources? The Times, WaPo, and other
outlets rely on anonymous sources in nearly every article about national
security. It’s clear they have an agenda — that agenda is not telling the truth.
This
reporter has been informed that Maggie Haberman has had this story about Susan
Rice for at least 48 hours, and has chosen to sit on it in an effort to protect
the reputation of former President Barack Obama.
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Mike Cernovich is a journalist, lawyer, author,
and filmmaker. Cernovich Media is not owned by large corporate
donors or robber barons. The NY Times’ largest shareholder (whose very word can crash
the stock, crippling 401K and other retirement plans) is Carlos Slim. WaPo
is owned by Jeff Bezos, who has a $600 million contract with deep state. WaPo has also been caught in a pay-for-play scandal.
