Monday, April 3, 2017

Whistleblower: Trump Associates Unmasked For Political Purposes By A Senior U.S. Official

We Are Change

It has been reported that Trump’s transition team being spied on is not the only instance of intelligence shenanigans during the election.

It seems like now that the Trump team had been spied well before the GOP nomination and that the identities of several individuals in the Trump team were unmasked as intelligence communities worked with the data.

When members of the intelligence community are conducting surveillance missions, they supposed to be avoiding U.S. citizens without a search warrant, since the Fourth Amendment protects citizens from “unreasonable searches.” Furthermore, when intelligence communities are working with the communications of a U.S. citizen it, is common practice for the identity of the person to be “masked” or hidden from the document.

One of the individuals who has recently been unmasked was Michael Flynn, who White House press secretary Sean Spicer said was targeted illegally. In a recent press briefing, Sean said that:

“Michael Flynn was unmasked and then illegally his identify was leaked out to media outlets, despite the fact that, as NSA Director Rogers said, that unmasking and revealing individuals endangers “national security.”

[RELATED: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL ADMITS OBAMA WAS SPYING ON TRUMP]

Recently a former Obama administration official, Evelyn Farkas, had admitted knowledge of the Trump team being spied on. She had claimed that part of the intent was to release information to the media. In the context of Spicer’s comments, it seems that this is highly illegal. As we recall, she said that:

“if they found out how we knew what we knew about their the staff the Trump staff dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods”

Part of the reason that Flynn has been under fire is his alleged connection with Russian officials. Now, he is seeking immunity before testifying about his experiences on the matter. It seems he did have contact with Russian diplomats during the election, but the FBI has since ruled that these phone calls were not illegal.

Besides, Trump’s team was probably not the only one who had active communications with Russian diplomats. As The Hill notes, Clinton’s campaign had also met with a Russian diplomat during the election. Bloomberg also reported the same thing with a nice video message from Putin back in November, yet there is no controversy on Russian influence on the Democratic side.

A Senior Intelligence Official Was Responsible for the Unmasking

Adam Housley of Fox recently reported further on the unmasking scandal, saying that the person who unmasked the identities on the Trump was someone “very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world.” It has since been asserted that this individual is Susan Rice, who was a National Security Advisor under President Obama.

“The main issue in this case, is not only the unmasking of these names of private citizens, but the spreading of these names for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security or an investigation into Russia’s interference in the U.S. election,” an alleged congressional source told Fox News.

If these claims are true, and the sources are definitive, then it seems that Evelyn Farkas’ comments were factual.

Representative Nunes’ Fight Against Unmasking

House Intelligence Committee Chair, Representative Devin Nunes (R) recently called upon the intelligence community to release reports on surveillance activities in the election, trying to discover if there was any illegal activity as a result. He now claims to know who the “very well known…” source is who illegally unmasked the identity of Trump associates. There is no report yet if this person is Susan Rice or another individual.

As Breitbart reports, the NSA was one agency which was “very, very helpful” to Nunes. Nunes has stated that according to the information he has received, none of it had anything to do with the alleged Russian hacking. In another report, it was presented that Nunes was stonewalled from receiving the information and that it took weeks to receive a response.

Nunes has since gone on to brief President Trump on the information that he has received, and more information on this story will come as the investigations of surveillance, unmasking, and alleged election hacking continue.

 

 

 

The post Whistleblower: Trump Associates Unmasked For Political Purposes By A Senior U.S. Official appeared first on We Are Change.



from We Are Change https://wearechange.org/whistleblower-trump-associates-unmasked-political-purposes-senior-u-s-official/
Posted by at
Labels:

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)