medium | Susan Rice,
who served as the National Security Adviser under President Obama, has
been identified as the official who requested unmasking of incoming
Trump officials, Cernovich Media can exclusively report.
The
White House Counsel’s office identified Rice as the person responsible
for the unmasking after examining Rice’s document log requests. The
reports Rice requested to see are kept under tightly-controlled
conditions. Each person must log her name before being granted access to
them.
Upon learning of Rice’s actions, H. R. McMaster dispatched his close aide Derek Harvey to Capitol Hill to brief Chairman Nunes.
“Unmasking”
is the process of identifying individuals whose communications were
caught in the dragnet of intelligence gathering. While conducting
investigations into terrorism and other related crimes, intelligence
analysts incidentally capture conversations about parties not subject to
the search warrant. The identities of individuals who are not under
investigation are kept confidential, for legal and moral reasons.
Under President Obama, the unmasking rules were changed. Circa originally reported:
As his presidency drew to a close, Barack Obama’s top aides routinely reviewed intelligence reports gleaned from the National Security Agency’s incidental intercepts of Americans abroad, taking advantage of rules their boss relaxed starting in 2011 to help the government better fight terrorism, espionage by foreign enemies and hacking threats, Circa has learned.
Three people close to President Obama, including his “fall guy” for Benghazi (Susan Rice), had authorization to unmask.
Among those cleared to request and consume unmasked NSA-based intelligence reports about U.S. citizens were Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice, his CIA Director John Brennan and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
