Susan Rice Ordered Spy Agencies To Produce ‘Detailed Spreadsheets’

get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration.”

Farkas sought to walk back her comments in the weeks following: “I didn’t give anybody anything except advice.”

Col. (Ret.) James Waurishuk, an NSC veteran and former deputy director for intelligence at the U.S. Central Command, told TheDCNF that many hands had to be involved throughout the Obama administration to launch such a political spying program.

“The surveillance initially is the responsibility of the National Security Agency,” Waurishuk said. “They have to abide by this guidance when one of the other agencies says, ‘we’re looking at this particular person which we would like to unmask.'”

“The lawyers and counsel at the NSA surely would be talking to the lawyers and members of counsel at CIA, or at the National Security Council or at the Director of National Intelligence or at the FBI,” he said. “It’s unbelievable of the level and degree of the administration to look for information on Donald Trump and his associates, his campaign team and his transition team. This is really, really serious stuff.”

Michael Doran, former NSC senior director, told TheDCNF Monday that “somebody blew a hole in the wall between national security secrets and partisan politics.” This “was a stream of information that was supposed to be hermetically sealed from politics and the Obama administration found a way to blow a hole in that wall,” he said.

Doran charged that potential serious crimes were undertaken because “this is a leaking of signal intelligence.”
“That’s a felony,” he told TheDCNF. “And you can get 10 years for that. It is a tremendous abuse of the system. We’re not supposed to be monitoring American citizens. Bigger than the crime, is the breach of public trust.”

Waurishuk said he was most dismayed that “this is now using national intelligence assets and capabilities to spy on the elected, yet-to-be-seated president.”

“We’re looking at a potential constitutional crisis from the standpoint that we used an extremely strong capability that’s supposed to be used to safeguard and protect the country,” he said. “And we used it for political purposes by a sitting president. That takes on a new precedent.”

>>128336
There's already a thread. Check the catalogue, dingus. Also,
>dailycaller

>>128339
That is old news this is new.
Prove the information wrong.

>>128341
She didn't get any of her requests to unmask approved. This story is typical TuckerCarlson bullshit.

>>128336
These ones were unmasked try to keep up anon.

>>128363
No they weren't. Asking for things and not getting them is not a crime. Also, this story was made up by Devin Nunes's former aide who now works at the white house.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/de-derping-the-un-masking-story

https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/04/03/who-violated-their-designated-role-ezra-cohen-watnick-or-susan-rice/

>>128363
No they weren't
Yes they were

>>128369
>They were real because Tucker Carlson said so!
>He wouldn't lie to make a partisan point, w-w-would he?
Really, Anon? Is it already to this point?

>>128372
>Also on Monday, Fox News and Bloomberg News, citing multiple sources reported that Rice had requested the intelligence information that was produced in a highly organized operation. Fox said the unmasked names of Trump aides were given to officials at the National Security Council (NSC), the Department of Defense, James Clapper, President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, and John Brennan, Obama’s CIA Director.

try again.

>>128373
>citing multiple sources
Here's your "multiple sources", >>128362 , you poor gullible faggot.

>>128375
those sources are about the failed requests these requests were granted as she unmasked these people.

>>128377
Go ahead and stay in denial if you want, it's funnier that way. Come back when you have proof of something besides the banal requests she made that got turned down.

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/joe-digenova-susan-rice-spy-agencies-trump-campaign/2017/04/04/id/782414/

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/04/claim_susan_rice_directed_spy_agencies_to_create_detailed_spread_sheets_involving_trump.html

http://dailysignal.com/2017/04/04/susan-rice-ordered-spy-agencies-to-produce-detailed-spreadsheets-involving-trump/

http://canadafreepress.com/article/report-susan-rice-ordered-detailed-spreadsheets-of-perfectly-legal-trump-co

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/dismissing-the-susan-rice-unmasking-story-is-the-exact-wrong-way-to-cover-it/article/2619281

Dismissing the Susan Rice 'unmasking' story is the exact wrong way to cover it

Never tell a crowd of curious onlookers, "There's nothing to see here."

Those five words frequently turn idle curiosity into genuine concern, and the speaker is often viewed quickly with distrust.

We're seeing that play out in real-time this week, as a few media personalities have downplayed reports that former national security adviser Susan Rice personally requested that the identities of "masked" Americans in U.S. intelligence reports linked to President Trump's transition team and campaign be "unmasked."

Rice's alleged involvement in the "unmasking" was reported Monday by Bloomberg.

She also reportedly ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to produce "detailed spreadsheets" of phone calls made by Trump and his associates during the election, the Daily Caller reported, citing former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova.

Those articles came not too long after Rice said unequivocally in March that she knew "nothing" about reports that the intelligence community had incidentally collected information on Donald Trump's transition team following the Nov. 8 election.

On its own, the "unmasking" of Americans is a newsworthy story deserving of careful and meticulous reporting. The discrepancy between what Rice said she knew, and what was reported by Bloomberg and the Daily Caller, raises further questions about what was legal, ethical, etc.

Readers deserve to know how this relates to President Trump's very dubious claim that former President Obama had Trump Tower's "wires tapped" during the 2016 election.

Telling people "there's nothing to see here," as CNN's Don Lemon, Jim Sciutto and Chris Cuomo have done this week, only makes audiences more curious, and it deepens the trust divide between viewers and the press.


http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/dismissing-the-susan-rice-unmasking-story-is-the-exact-wrong-way-to-cover-it/article/2619281

"Let us be very clear about this. There is no evidence whatsoever that the Trump team… was spied on illegally. There is no evidence that backs up the president's original claim [his wires 'were tapped']," Lemon said Monday evening.

He added, "And on this program tonight, we will not insult your intelligence by pretending otherwise, nor will we aid and abet the people who are trying to misinform you, the American people, by creating a diversion."

CNN chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto suggested elsewhere that the Rice "unmasking" story was a "distraction" from allegations Trump coordinated with the Russians to win the presidential election.

"The idea that Ambassador Rice improperly sought the identities of Americans is false. There is nothing unusual about making these requests when serving as a senior national security official, whether Democrat or Republican," he said, citing an anonymous source who is "close" to Rice.

"This appears to be a story largely ginned up, partly as a distraction from this larger investigation," Sciutto added.
For the sake of full disclosure, it's worth noting Sciutto is a former Obama administration appointee. He served for a time as chief of staff to the U.S. Ambassador to China.

On Tuesday, Cuomo said this: "President Trump, right-wing media types peddling a fake scandal. What is it? Well, this suggestion that … Rice improperly unmasked identities of Trump associates is part of what the president calls a crooked scheme."

He added in reference to Sciutto's anonymous source, "An associate of Rice says it's just plain false."

Oh, well in that case.

It may be that the "unmasking" of Americans was perfectly legal, and that the role Rice played was minuscule. Once the facts come out, it may be that the entire story has been overblown, and that nothing unusual or unethical occurred.

>>128382
>Look I can post a bunch of clickbait shit that "proves" you wrong too!

http://forward.com/news/367690/meet-ezra-cohen-watnick-the-secret-source-at-the-center-of-trump-russia-pro/

http://forward.com/fast-forward/367663/ezra-cohen-watnick-identified-as-white-house-source-in-trump-russia-probe/

http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.780795

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/devin-nunes-white-house-coordination

However, the facts are still being collected.

Reporters are wrong to blow off the story as a "diversion." There are legitimate questions that need to be answered. Audiences deserve that much. Dismissing the story outright as a "distraction" before all the facts are in rightly raises additional concerns – and suspicion.

>>128389
>>128387
>>128385
nice opinion piece. Good speculation there. Read the sticky before posting next time.

>>128388
You never disproved former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova
keep crying anon your hero Susan Rice is a fraud.

>>128392
If you say it 10000 more times it won't be anymore true than it is right now, which it isn't.

>>128393
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGXy_yhOfNg

>>128392
The problem is that you give value to what former U.S. Attorney Joee diGenova said.

Here's something else he said:
>"Hillary Clinton Will Not Be Able To Complete Her Campaign After Indictment For Committing "Numerous Federal Crimes" With Private Email Use."

He's a really credible person to ask, Anon, if you're a rightwing partisan hack looking to fill the hole in your confirmation bias.

>>128395
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nRRu9WAA-k

>>128396
Susan Rice is a proven liar anon.

>>128398
So is Tucker Carlson but I don't like to hold a grudge.

>>128399
What does cucker carson have to with this?

>>128401
Who do you think is the editor in chief of The Daily Caller and approves every story they print?

>>128403
>editor in chief of The Daily Caller
To be fair, he supposedly stepped down in November to devote more time to his FoxNews show.

>>128403
Just because he approve something does not make it wrong.

>>128404
yeah right, and Bannon doesn't give tips to Breitbart anymore. Suuuuure.

>>128405
No but it's a great indicator that it's spin and damage control.

>>128406
Can you prove it?

Rice is no stranger to controversy. As the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, she appeared on several Sunday news shows to defend the adminstration's later debunked claim that the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on a U.S. consulate in Libya was triggered by an Internet video.

Rice also told ABC News 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 facing court-martial on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy for allegedly walking off his post in Afghanistan.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/03/susan-rice-requested-to-unmask-names-trump-transition-officials-sources-say.html

White House lawyers last month learned that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The pattern of Rice's requests was discovered in a National Security Council review of the government's policy on "unmasking" the identities of individuals in the U.S. who are not targets of electronic eavesdropping, but whose communications are collected incidentally. Normally those names are redacted from summaries of monitored conversations and appear in reports as something like "U.S. Person One."

The National Security Council's senior director for intelligence, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, was conducting the review, according to two U.S. officials who spoke with Bloomberg View on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly. In February Cohen-Watnick discovered Rice's multiple requests to unmask U.S. persons in intelligence reports that related to Trump transition activities. He brought this to the attention of the White House General Counsel's office, who reviewed more of Rice's requests and instructed him to end his own research into the unmasking policy.

The intelligence reports were summaries of monitored conversations -- primarily between foreign officials discussing the Trump transition, but also in some cases direct contact between members of the Trump team and monitored foreign officials. One U.S. official familiar with the reports said they contained valuable political information on the Trump transition such as whom the Trump team was meeting, the views of Trump associates on foreign policy matters and plans for the incoming administration.


https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-03/top-obama-adviser-sought-names-of-trump-associates-in-intel

>>128408
Prove what? That Bannon still feeds info to breitbart? The proof is in what exclusives they get. Decide for yourself. I can't stand reading that site long enough to research it for myself.

Rice did not respond to an email seeking comment on Monday morning. Her role in requesting the identities of Trump transition officials adds an important element to the dueling investigations surrounding the Trump White House since the president's inauguration.

Both the House and Senate intelligence committees are probing any ties between Trump associates and a Russian influence operation against Hillary Clinton during the election. The chairman of the House intelligence committee, Representative Devin Nunes, is also investigating how the Obama White House kept tabs on the Trump transition after the election through unmasking the names of Trump associates incidentally collected in government eavesdropping of foreign officials.

Rice herself has not spoken directly on the issue of unmasking. Last month when she was asked on the "PBS NewsHour" about reports that Trump transition officials, including Trump himself, were swept up in incidental intelligence collection, Rice said: "I know nothing about this," adding, "I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that account today."

Rice's requests to unmask the names of Trump transition officials do not vindicate Trump's own tweets from March 4 in which he accused Obama of illegally tapping Trump Tower. There remains no evidence to support that claim.

But Rice's multiple requests to learn the identities of Trump officials discussed in intelligence reports during the transition period does highlight a longstanding concern for civil liberties advocates about U.S. surveillance programs. The standard for senior officials to learn the names of U.S. persons incidentally collected is that it must have some foreign intelligence value, a standard that can apply to almost anything. This suggests Rice's unmasking requests were likely within the law.

The news about Rice also sheds light on the strange behavior of Nunes in the last two weeks. It emerged last week that he traveled to the White House last month, the night before he made an explosive allegation about Trump transition officials caught up in incidental surveillance. At the time he said he needed to go to the White House because the reports were only on a database for the executive branch. It now appears that he needed to view computer systems within the National Security Council that would include the logs of Rice's requests to unmask U.S. persons.

The ranking Democrat on the committee Nunes chairs, Representative Adam Schiff, viewed these reports on Friday. In comments to the press over the weekend he declined to discuss the contents of these reports, but also said it was highly unusual for the reports to be shown only to Nunes and not himself and other members of the committee.

Indeed, much about this is highly unusual: if not how the surveillance was collected, then certainly how and why it was disseminated.

>>128410
> Ezra Cohen-Watnick
And that, right there, is why this isn't a legit story.
see
>>128388

>>128414
>>128412
>>128410
Why would you repost the same story as is posted in >>128102

>>128415
your source proves nothing that the op source is wrong.

>>128416
So people don't have to go to the old thread to get new info.

>>128419
What's the 'new info' ?

>>128423
The liar just went on tv to deny spying this will be a fun court case.
Former national security advisor for the Obama administration Susan Rice appeared on MSNBC Tuesday to respond to the claims that she had spied on the Trump administration. Bloomberg reported on Monday that Rice had sought several times to "unmask" associates of President Donald Trump in intelligence briefings.

Rice said the claims that she and other Obama administrations had used intelligence for political purposes were "absolutely false." She further explained that as national security advisor she would sometimes request more information about unspecified "U.S. persons" whose names appeared in intelligence briefings.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/susan-rice-responds-spying-trump-admin/

>>128427
The 'claims that she had spied on the Trump administration.' are retarded. How in the fuck is requesting to unmask someone and getting turned down being portrayed as "spying on someone"? The cognitive dissonance is astounding.

>>128428
go shill your damage control somewhere else

>>128779
Prove me wrong, faggot. Oh wait, you can't, which is why you're falling back on /pol/ memes.

>>128428
Even attempting to obtain access to subversively collected data in a format expressly denied by the law is still illegal, no?

>>128790
lol tell it to Ezra Cohen Watnik, who is on the current NSC and leaked this story to start with.

Even legal spying is bad enough

>>128795
If it was spying, it would require a court order to access the calls of any American citizen.
This would be conclusive proof that potentially incriminating evidence existed that would suggest criminal activity on the part of Trump's team, hence the investigation.

and this, kids, this is why you do not attempt to stump the trump.

he WILL be ten steps ahead of you.

when the leftist retards master-plan was in the brainstorming stages, Trump had already predicted what they would wind up doing and set in motion a perfect trap.

>>128799
lol
>Eli Lake, the Bloomberg View columnist who wrote the report, noted in his piece that “some intelligence value” is required for senior officials to request that U.S. persons’ names be unmasked, and that as a result, Rice’s alleged requests were “likely within the law.”

>The intelligence reports in question were primarily summaries of conversations between foreign officials discussing the Trump transition, as well as communications between Trump staffers and foreign officials being monitored by the U.S. government, according to Lake’s reporting.

>Lonergan said that given the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the U.S. election, which Director James Comey recently confirmed has been ongoing since July 2016, the discovery of such conversations would “naturally and appropriately” prompt top-level national security officials to ask that U.S. persons’ names be unmasked “to see if any inappropriate action is taking place.”
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/experts-say-susan-rice-had-every-right-to-request-%e2%80%98unmasking%e2%80%99-in-intel-reports/ar-BBzibso

>>128428
There's a difference between failure and not trying.

>>128820
There's also a difference between something happened and nothing happened, this situation is the latter.

>>128826
If she had succeeded, would something have still not happened? That she fucked up ilthe execution doesn't change intent.

>>128336

wow you Slavs are really pushing this new narrative

didn't get anywhere with the "Obama tapp" or GCHQ narratives?

>>128969
Retard, circle back to the previous post.

>>128969
You're giving her motivation that she never had to begin with. Why would she *want* to do all that?
>she fucked up the execution
There was literally nothing she could have executed herself without Comey's or Rogers's approval.

Who will be the next boogeyman from Obama's administration they namedrop as a giant distraction? They already did this same shit to Ben Rhodes last month. When that went away, they moved on to Rice. I'm sure all the shit that Valerie Jarrett almost did or even thought about doing but didn't will be next week's distraction story.