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“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. And we used it for political purposes by a sitting President. That takes on a new precedent.”
This must not stand. Obama and Rice should be charged and tried.
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“Susan Rice Ordered Spy Agencies To Produce ‘Detailed Spreadsheets’ Involving Trump,” by Richard Pollock, Daily Caller, April 3, 2017:
Former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice ordered U.S. spy agencies to produce “detailed spreadsheets” of legal phone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides when he was running for president, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova.
“What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. Rice were detailed spreadsheets of intercepted phone calls with unmasked Trump associates in perfectly legal conversations with individuals,” diGenova told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group Monday.
“The overheard conversations involved no illegal activity by anybody of the Trump associates, or anyone they were speaking with,” diGenova said. “In short, the only apparent illegal activity was the unmasking of the people in the calls.”
Other knowledgeable official sources with direct knowledge and who requested anonymity confirmed to TheDCNF diGenova’s description of surveillance reports Rice ordered one year before the 2016 presidential election.
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.
Joining Rice in the alleged White House operations was her deputy Ben Rhodes, according to Fox.
Critics of the atmosphere prevailing throughout the Obama administration’s last year in office point to former Obama Deputy Defense Secretary Evelyn Farkas who admitted in a March 2 television interview on MSNBC that she “was urging my former colleagues,” to “get as much information as you can, 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.”
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.”
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22 Comments
7 years ago
Nobody cares, I guess. Yikers!
D
7 years ago
The right demands investigations after evidence has been found. The left demands evidence after an investigation has been launched.
7 years ago
Rice always lets out a gasp-like breath as if a laugh when she lies.
“I know noth-ING!”
7 years ago
Who wants to bet she will serve time over it?
I’ll be surprised. Trump’s a wuss.
D
7 years ago
Reply to
Poptoy1949
Both Rice and Obutthole deserve to serve time over it. It just seems that Trump is turning soft on too many issues.
D
7 years ago
Reply to
Drain the swamp Donald!!
He is turning soft or is being Fed the Wrong Information by the Republican Establishment.
7 years ago
7 years ago
Susan Rice is a Extreme Left-Wing Liberal LIAR!!
7 years ago
BUSTED!
Sent an international manhunt for the sodomite Nerogro and arrest Rice on the SPOT. Do not be afraid because they are Negroes otherwise you will be practicing racism like the Negroes.
7 years ago
One thing the media is losing sight of is that Rice was NOT an investigator, by trade or assignment. She was a politically appointed WH staffer and had no investigative capabilities or function. Had she detected illegal activity, that is a law enforcement matter. This brings the weaponizing of the IRS a clarity, does it not?
7 years ago
For goodness sake, Trump administration, have the guts to take action against Obama and Rice – and put them away amidst the enraged liberals howls of hatred that remind me of Muslims. Like Obama, seen by all, Susan Rice is a disgusting lair and a criminal. She arrogantly makes a mockery of the law and thus far has escaped of the law.
7 years ago
We’ll be wearing this phrase out….”Lock Her Up!”
7 years ago
7 years ago
A bunch of scumbag traitors. Lock ’em all up.
7 years ago
Her Co-Conspirator can join her in the Orange jumpsuit house !!!
7 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
I have a feeling o’loser is hiding on a golf course somewhere in the mideast as we speak refreshing his friendships should he need a safe house.
7 years ago
Everyone involved should be put into Gitmo under the Patriot act. We don’t need a trial, just video of them being loaded into their cells!
7 years ago
I have to admit its poetic justice to see the democrats being scorched by their own hands – the “architects” of their own demise. Reid must be kicking a prostitute at the mustang ranch over the nuclear option they started and schumer must be wetting his pants over the impending travel ban enforcement. Then we have this week the amazing lying harvard grad susan rice. This stuff is getting better by the day. If nixon were alive he’d be asking for an appeal since his stealing a few tapes was peanuts compared to the “surveillance on demand” progressive police state being revealed.
