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originally posted by: Sookiechacha
Your post has not changed my opinion.
originally posted by: xuenchen
Ohhh Well
On 1/13/17 the Obama administration gave a press conference, saying not only would they HELP the transition team reach out to foreign officials should they ask, but that they saw no problem with Flynn speaking to any foreign official- including Kislyak
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originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: shooterbrody
When was the Treasury department "spying" on Flynn?
And what does it have to do with Flynn lying about talking to Kislyak before Trump was inaugurated?
Read the report
Since 2015
originally posted by: shooterbrody
originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: xuenchen
And?
Has Flynn been charged with talking to the Russian Ambassador, or was he charged (and did he confess), to lying to various officials about those meetings?
So you support the surveillance state perjury trap?
Interesting
originally posted by: Gryphon66
Ergo, the complaint was made to the Trump Adminsitration's IG for Treasury ... and nothing was done with it.
This is not complicated.
President Trump said on Saturday that he had fired Michael T. Flynn, his first national security adviser, because he lied not just to the vice president but also to the F.B.I.
Only two names are listed in the whistleblower’s official paperwork, so the others must remain sealed, she said. The second name is Paul J. Manafort Jr., the one-time chairman of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The other names include: Members of Congress, the most senior staffers on the 2016 Trump campaign and members of Trump’s family, she said.
“Another thing they would do is take targeted names from a certain database – I cannot name, but you can guess – and they were going over to an unclassified database and they were running those names in the unclassified database,” she said.
This ruse was to get around using classified resources to surveil Americans, she said. Once the Treasury personnel had enough information about someone they were targeting from the black box, they would go to the white box for faster and more informed search.
It was routine for these searches that had no criminal nor national security predicate, merely a political predicate, she said.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Gryphon66
And John Edward's affair didn't gain any traction outside the National Enquirer for a while either. I'm sure that made you wonder too.
Data obtained by Fox News shows that thousands of unmasking requests have been fulfilled every year across both the Obama and Trump administrations, reflecting the often routine nature of these requests in intelligence work. The practice is regarded as an important national security tool, a view reflected by these numbers.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence reported that in 2019, the Trump administration had 10,012 unmasking requests fulfilled; 16,721 requests fulfilled in 2018, and 9,529 requests fulfilled in 2017.
During 2016, the last year of the Obama administration, there were 9,217 unmasking requests fulfilled.