unmasking - Forum - Command Center2024-03-29T08:28:32Zhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/feed/tag/unmaskingBarr asks US Attorney John Bash to review 'unmasking' before and after 2016 election, DOJ tells Fox Newshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/barr-asks-us-attorney-john-bash-to-review-unmasking-before-and-af2020-05-28T12:00:10.000Z2020-05-28T12:00:10.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p class="speakable"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}5417990872,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}5417990872,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="500" alt="5417990872?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></p>
<p class="speakable"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/william-barr">Attorney General Bill Barr</a> has asked U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas John Bash to review the practice of "unmasking" before and after the 2016 presidential election, a controversy that has picked up steam after the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/justice-department">Justice Department</a> moved to drop charges against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, the DOJ told Fox News on Wednesday night.</p>
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<p class="speakable">Republican lawmakers have demanded more information about the extent of the practice after a previously clandestine list of Obama-era officials who sought to reveal what turned out to be the identity of Michael Flynn in intelligence reports was released earlier the month. The DOJ had moved to drop the Flynn case after internal memos were released raising serious questions about the nature of the investigation that led to his late-2017 guilty plea for lying to the FBI about his Russia contacts.</p>
<p>DOJ spokeswoman Kerri Kupec told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/shows/hannity">Fox News' "Hannity"</a> that U.S. Attorney John Durham, who has been reviewing the origins of the Russia investigation, was looking into "unmasking" but Barr determined certain aspects of the practice needed further review, and Bash has been assigned to do so.</p>
<p>"Unmasking inherently isn't wrong, but certainly, the frequency, the motivation and the reasoning behind unmasking can be problematic, and when you're looking at unmasking as part of a broader investigation -- like John Durham's investigation -- looking specifically at who was unmasking whom, can add a lot to our understanding about motivation and big picture events," Kupec said.</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/barr-asks-us-attorney-john-bash-to-review-unmasking-before-and-after-2016-election-doj-tells-fox-news">https://www.foxnews.com/politics/barr-asks-us-attorney-john-bash-to-review-unmasking-before-and-after-2016-election-doj-tells-fox-news</a></p></div>Unmasking revelation opens door for Trump campaign to portray scandal-plagued Bidenhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/unmasking-revelation-opens-door-for-trump-campaign-to-portray-sca2020-05-15T22:48:20.000Z2020-05-15T22:48:20.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}5055146069,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}5055146069,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="555" alt="5055146069?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></p>
<p>Move over, “Sleepy Joe.” President Trump’s campaign is increasingly painting the presumptive Democratic nominee as “Beijing Biden,” and “Crooked, Swampy Joe” may not be too far behind.</p>
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<p>But Sleepy, Swampy, and Crooked are not a reprise of the seven dwarfs. Joe Biden has now accumulated a number of scandals, ranging from his son Hunter’s business dealings with China, a country on which the candidate himself is <a style="text-decoration:none;" href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-fighting-back-furiously-against-trump-effort-to-portray-him-as-a-china-patsy" target="_blank"><u>seen as soft</u></a>, to the Tara Reade sexual assault allegations. The latest revelation is that as vice president, Biden was informed of the “unmasking” requests concerning then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn, something he had previously denied.</p>
<p>Trumpworld is packaging all these hits together into one cohesive case against Biden that is reminiscent of its successful 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton. Its argument is that the Democratic standard-bearer is a longtime district insider and swamp creature running against Trump the disruptor.</p>
<p>“If you smell the stink of the D.C. swamp, it’s because it’s all over Joe Biden,” said Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh. “His family has enriched itself thanks to his positions of power, he thinks he doesn’t have to play by the same rules as everyone else, and he’s up to his eyeballs in the plot to take down the Trump administration through the Russia collusion hoax. And every time someone asks him about it, he gets confused and loses his temper. The D.C. establishment got the candidate they wanted in Joe Biden, and so did China.”</p>
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read more here: <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/unmasking-revelation-opens-door-for-trump-campaign-to-portray-scandal-plagued-biden">https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/unmasking-revelation-opens-door-for-trump-campaign-to-portray-scandal-plagued-biden</a></div>The other secrets inside Grenell’s satchel are the key to the biggest political scandal in US historyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/the-other-secrets-inside-grenell-s-satchel-are-the-key-to-the-big2020-05-15T21:59:26.000Z2020-05-15T21:59:26.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}5054273274,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}5054273274,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="362" alt="5054273274?profile=RESIZE_400x" /></a></p>
<p>That satchel that Acting DNI Ric Grenell personally delivered to the Department of Justice on May 7, 2020 was far too big for just a list of the 39 Obama administration officials, including his chief of staff and ambassador to Italy. Those higher ups have been exposed as requesting the unmasking of General Flynn. But there must have been a lot more inside, and that material was voluminous to require a briefcase-sized container, and that is the key to exposing the real extent of the spy operation that President Obama carried out on his political enemies, and the unmasking of General Michael Fynn is just the tip of the iceberg.</p>
<p>That is the basic message of this long and fascinating <a href="https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/05/13/beyond-biden-brennan-and-clapper-how-grenells-satchel-tells-us-this-is-on-the-right-track/">post</a> by retired naval officer J.E. Dyer at Liberty Unyielding. I urge those who take a keen interest in the subject to read the whole thing, for it is full of technical points and complexities, but I will offer my own perspective on the thesis advanced by Ms. Dyer, who <a href="https://twitter.com/OptimisticCon">tweets</a> under the name OptimisticCon. The post was sent to me by a counterintelligence professional who noted that it reinforced the <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/msm_pretending_dem_pols_unmasking_flynn_is_no_big_deal_not_even_worth_mentioning.html">point I made</a> yesterday:</p>
<p>The unmasking of the unmaskers of General Flynn's telephone call is the camel's nose under the tent of the Obama administration's conspiracy to sabotage the incoming Trump administration, using the vast resources of the federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies using Deep State operatives within them.”</p>
<p>The key message is that for years the Obama administration was mining the incomparable database of the National Security Agency (NSA), which captured virtually all electronic communications – emails, text messages, everything – launched into the ether. The potential for abuse is breathtaking. Everything that political enemies said to each other, except in private in-person conversations or in snail mail letters, could have been spied upon. And now it looks like staggering numbers of intercepts were monitored.</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/the_emotheremsecrets_inside_grenells_satchel_are_the_key_to_the_biggest_political_scandal_in_us_history.html">https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/the_emotheremsecrets_inside_grenells_satchel_are_the_key_to_the_biggest_political_scandal_in_us_history.html</a></p></div>Fake News to Brennan: “Can you once and for all” explain to Fox News viewers why “unmasking” isn’t really a storyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/fake-news-to-brennan-can-you-once-and-for-all-explain-to-fox-news2020-05-15T12:40:03.000Z2020-05-15T12:40:03.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
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— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) <a href="https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1261270776725921792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">I expect that in the next few days and weeks we're going to see the jaw-dropping extent of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Obamagate?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Obamagate</a> unmasking.<br /><br />"It's not just Michael Flynn. There was an unmasking request made on the morning of the inauguration...Trump's family members' names were unmasked." <a href="https://t.co/EvQvLDGlgT">pic.twitter.com/EvQvLDGlgT</a></p>
— TheSharpEdge (@TheSharpEdge1) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheSharpEdge1/status/1261041994802987009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>CBS tucked the latest Flynn case revelation into a one-minute brief following a coronavirus report very critical of President Trump. “Well, Margaret, unmasking is when a senior government official requests to know the identity of the U.S. citizen in an intelligence report. <strong>It's something that happens thousands of times a year</strong>,” Reid declared to downplay the significance of what was exposed.</p>
<p>Reid eased into acknowledging that Biden’s name was among those who requested to unmask Flynn, and insinuated that those outraged by it were just toeing the Trump administration line.</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/05/13/abcnbc-ignore-flynn-unmaskers-getting-exposed-cbs-defends">https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/05/13/abcnbc-ignore-flynn-unmaskers-getting-exposed-cbs-defends</a></p>
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</div></div>President Trump: ‘How Do You Know Nothing If You Are One of the Unmaskers?’https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/president-trump-how-do-you-know-nothing-if-you-are-one-of-the-unm2020-05-14T02:07:31.000Z2020-05-14T02:07:31.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p> </p>
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<p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4998328681,RESIZE_1200x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4998328681,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="500" alt="4998328681?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a>Former Vice President Joe Biden can’t say he knew nothing about the unmasking of Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn if he was one of the unmaskers, President Donald Trump said Wednesday.</p>
<p>Biden was one of several Obama administration officials whose name appears on the declassified list of officials who requested the unmasking. Also listed are former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.</p>
<p>“The unmasking is a massive thing,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting with the governors of Colorado and North Dakota. “Who can believe a thing like this? I watched Biden yesterday on ‘Good Morning America’ being interviewed by one of your colleagues, George Stephanopoulos, and he said he knew nothing about anything. He has no idea.</p>
<p>“He knows nothing about anything, nothing at all, and then it gets released today that he was a big unmasker. So how do you know nothing if you are one of the unmaskers? It is one of the very big stories, and I suspect you'll have, if it’s possible, even bigger stories coming out,” the president said.</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://cnsnews.com/article/washington/melanie-arter/trump-how-do-you-know-nothing-if-you-are-one-unmaskers">https://cnsnews.com/article/washington/melanie-arter/trump-how-do-you-know-nothing-if-you-are-one-unmaskers</a></p></div>Samantha Power Committed Perjury in House Depositionhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/samantha-power-committed-perjury-in-house-deposition2020-05-13T23:14:55.000Z2020-05-13T23:14:55.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><img src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a375922f668d9f76fa2e342ab10ae56ae0e70c9d/375_82_910_546/master/910.png?width=700&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a0d815f714f789f3916c6a547a3d8175" alt="Samantha Power: 'To fall flat in such a public way and to have no ..." />
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— Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1260666419517292544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Flynn unmasking requests ramp up right around the time the Strzok/Page texts start to go “missing” (Dec 14, 2016)<br /><br />If the IG hadn’t forensically retrieved “some” of them, the gap in texts would have been from then until the day Mueller was appointed Special Counsel (May 17, 2017)</p>
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnWHuber/status/1260656160857677825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Yesterday I wrote to DNI <a href="https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RichardGrenell</a> requesting the names of those who were involved in Gen Flynn’s unmasking. Today I received the shocking reply that <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a> and many others knew! What did President Obama know? I am inviting DNI Grenell to testify next week in the Senate <a href="https://t.co/IHpGjeVWwM">pic.twitter.com/IHpGjeVWwM</a></p>
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1260644050064904193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>Here is the full list:</p>
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<p>Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2000-doj-officials-call-ag-barr-resign-flynn/story?id=70615677" target="_blank">sought to declassify</a> a list of <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/susan-rice-unmasking-controversy/story?id=46592843" target="_blank">former Obama administration</a> officials who were <a href="" target="_blank">allegedly involved</a> in the so-called “unmasking” of former national security adviser Michael Flynn in his conversations with the former <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/russia-nation" target="_blank">Russia</a>n ambassador during the presidential transition, a senior U.S. official tells ABC News.</p>
<p>Grenell, who remains the U.S. ambassador to Germany along with being the acting DNI, visited the Justice Department last week to request the declassification of the list, according to the official.</p>
<p>His visit indicates his focus on an issue previously highlighted in 2017 by skeptics of the investigation into the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia, specifically allegations that former officials improperly unveiled Flynn's identity from intercepts of his call with former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/acting-dni-seeks-declassify-obama-officials-involved-flynn/story?id=70624372">https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/acting-dni-seeks-declassify-obama-officials-involved-flynn/story?id=70624372</a></p>
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