The president ordered release of the unmasking requests of US citizens to be released for congressional oversight over a year ago.
. . . it was discovered that many senior officials in the Obama Administration unmasked more frequently than previous administration. In some cases the names were unmasked, in other cases they were specific enough that the American’s identity was easily ascertained, intelligence sources had told this reporter.
Samantha Powers, the UN Ambassador, had an exorbitant amout of requests to unmask.
This reporter and others revealed in 2017 that senior Obama officials, including former Secretary of State Susan Rice, former United Nation’s Ambassador Samantha Powers and former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper had made requests. Further, there were other senior Obama officials who also made unmasking requests.
Powers had made nearly 300 unmasking requests of private communications of Americans, including members of the Trump campaign, prior and after the 2016 presidential election.
Powers investigating the political opposition?
Susan Rice, proven liar of Benghazi fame, also got very active in unmasking requests after Trump was the nominee.
The logs discovered by National Security Council staff suggested Rice was interested in the NSA materials, some of which included unmasked Americans’ identities, intelligence sources said. Those unmasking requests appeared to begin in July, 2016 around the time Trump secured the GOP nomination. Those requests also accelerated after Trump’s election in November and launched a transition that continued through January.
Rice decided not to stick to her initial denial of making the requests because detailed logs are kept of unmaskings. In other words, Rice lied in the beginning.
Rice first denied unmasking Americans. Later she told MSBNC that she had accessed unmasked intelligence reports involving Trump and his associates, but called claims she had done so for political purposes “absolutely false.”
Rice, however, accessed multiple intelligence reports during the end of Obama’s presidency. She unmasked Americans in some of those reports. The reports revealed the identities of then-candidate Trump and his associates, according to sources. She also said her access of the data did not constitute wiretapping, despite Trump’s claim he was wiretapped.
More on Susan Rice's involvement in the link below:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/ ... stigation/
Brennan and Clapper are also up to their eyeballs in this.
Who thinks Bayrack didn't know? Someone would have to be a certifiable idiot to think that all of these high level actors in the administration did all of this without Bayrack's knowledge. There are even documented meetings of all if them together after the 2016 election.
