Not taking any sides here as i think there is still a gigantic leap of faith required to pin this directly on Obama, butttt....
This just released from CNN, Note the author of this Story, Jake Tapper, the one guy on CNN who i just told Tsing i have faith in as a hard news reporter. Im still skeptical of where this all leads, but there might be a there, there.
For Adam Schiff a dem from California to sign onto this, there must be something unusual here, cause its going to be the kiss of death for his career if he wrongfully implicates the obama admin here.
Faith in Jake Tapper CONFIRMED, faith in CNN still at all time lows.
House Intel Committee seeks names of Obama officials who requested 'unmasking' of Americans picked up on surveillance
(CNN)The leaders of the House Intelligence Committee asked the three leaders of the intelligence community Wednesday about any time during the last seven months of the Obama administration whenever any of its agents and officials improperly named, or "unmasked," and disseminated the identities of American citizens picked up in intelligence collection.
Chairman Devin Nunes, R-California, and Ranking Member Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, wrote that they were concerned that members of the intelligence community have not been sufficiently honoring previously established "robust 'minimization procedures'" to protect the identities of US citizens, including "masking" their names. The letter they sent refers to the disclosure to the public that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had several conversations with the Russian Ambassador.
The matter is relevant not only because of the House Intelligence Committee's responsibility to conduct oversight of the intelligence community, but also as it may relate to surveillance of Russians known to US intelligence or any others who may have spoken with any advisers or individuals around then-candidate Donald Trump.
Nunes and Schiff asked the intelligence community leaders to disclose any "unmasked" identities that were disseminated throughout the intelligence community, law enforcement, or among senior Obama administration officials from June 2016 until January 2017 that relate to Trump or Hillary Clinton and their associates.
An informed source told CNN that if Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak was being surveilled, Flynn's name should not necessarily have been included on the intelligence report. Rather, "American Citizen 1" or a similar anonymous term should have been used.
"However, as recent news stories, seem to illustrate, individuals talking to the media would appear to have wantonly disregarded these procedures," Nunes and Schiff wrote. The congressmen also asked the names of individuals or agencies who "requested and/or authorized the unmasking and dissemination" of these identities.
The letter was addressed to Admiral Michael Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency; FBI Director James Comey; and CIA Director Mike Pompeo. The acting Director of National Intelligence Michael Dempsey was also included.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/15/politics/house-intelligence-committee-unmasking/index.html
I've been thinking about this for the last few days how they always come back with the 'trump people weren't wiretapped. they just picked up people like flynn from wiretapping the russians' excuse.
I had read somewhere that names of people who aren't on the wiretap are to be redacted, put away and forgotten.
The inescapable conclusion is that either trump's associates were wiretapped or they were not redacted like they're supposed to be, in effect wiretapping someone that they have no legal right to wiretap.
It must be one or the other and I hope they don't sweep it all under the rug if it turns out our ic was illegally wiretapping by not redacting.
