What Did Obama Request from Susan Rice? -- The Post & Email, Sharon Rondeau

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What Did Obama Request from Susan Rice?

FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER INCLUDES BOSS IN THE DISCUSSION

The Post & Email
by Sharon Rondeau
3/5/2017

Excerpt:

(Apr. 5, 2017) — In a Tuesday interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice denied requesting the identities of “U.S. persons” contained in intelligence reports she reviewed. Rather, she brought in her former boss, Barack Hussein Obama, to the equation by stating that he had requested “the compilation of the intelligence that was ultimately provided in January” (6:10).

Rice said that “asking for the identity” of an American citizen whose name is captured in foreign surveillance is “not the same” as leaking it.

When Mitchell told Rice that she has been accused of leaking the name of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, Rice denied it and added that those leaking names of U.S. persons are “doing something very wrong.”

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Andrew McCarthy explains: No, Susan Rice would have had no legitimate reason to ask for the unmasking

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works

Canada Free Press
by Dan Calabrese
4/5/2017

Excerpt:

The reason I so often reference Andrew McCarthy is that there are so many things that happen concerning the workings of the Justice Department, national security and intelligence agencies . . . and much of what you hear about it comes from people who have never worked in or around these environments and don’t really know how they work.

McCarthy has, and he does.

So when we get a story like the Susan Rice unmasking case, and the media tell you it’s no big deal and not a story, check with McCarthy. Because he can not only tell you if it is or is not a legitimate story, he can also explain how and why:

Understand: There would have been no intelligence need for Susan Rice to ask for identities to be unmasked. If there had been a real need to reveal the identities — an intelligence need based on American interests — the unmasking would have been done by the investigating agencies.

The national-security adviser is not an investigator. She is a White House staffer. The president’s staff is a consumer of intelligence, not a generator or collector of it. If Susan Rice was unmasking Americans, it was not to fulfill an intelligence need based on American interests; it was to fulfill a political desire based on Democratic-party interests.

The FBI, CIA, and NSA generate or collect the intelligence in, essentially, three ways: conducting surveillance on suspected agents of foreign powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and carrying out more-sweeping collections under two other authorities — a different provision of FISA, and a Reagan-era executive order that has been amended several times over the ensuing decades, EO 12,333.

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