Media Ignore, Downplay Susan Rice Unmasking Revelations. Here Are 3 Major Reasons The Story Matters.

[Joe Cooper]

Despite bombshell reports yesterday claiming that Obama National Security
Advisor Susan Rice “unmasked” members of the Trump campaign and Trump
transition team while reviewing raw intelligence, that such unmasked
information was widely distributed among top members of the Obama
administration, and that Rice asked for continuous updates on
communications between foreign targets and the Trump team after Trump won
the Republican nomination, the media have decided that the story simply
isn’t worth covering.

CNN’s Don Lemon stated that the media should not “aid and abet the
people” creating a “diversion” over Susan Rice. As Newsbusters reports,
CBS’ Margaret Brennan cited sources stating that Rice’s activity was
perfectly normal and not improper. The New York Times echoed that claim.
ABC News and NBC News didn’t cover the story at all.

But the story is huge.

Here are three reasons why.

1. The Obama Administration Targeted The Trump Team. The story is huge
because it’s just more evidence that the Obama administration used
government to target its political opposition. There’s no evidence Rice
did anything illegal here. But it’s certainly an abuse of power to use
the power of unmasking to keep tabs on your political opposition without
any evidence of wrongdoing, as Rice reportedly did. If they’d found
anything nefarious but non-criminal, what would they have done about it?
Would that information have died a quiet death amidst the other
intelligence reports spreading around the top levels of the Obama
administration? Or would it have made its way to the press, as
information about Mike Flynn’s innocuous contacts with the Russian
Ambassador did after the election? As The Wall Street Journal editorial
board states, “Ms. Rice would have had no obvious need to unmask Trump
campaign officials other than political curiosity.”

2. Rice Lied. Last month, Rice told PBS Newshour that she knew “nothing”
about surveillance of the Trump team. But she knew that the Trump team
was caught up in incidental surveillance, obviously. We know that Rice
has a habit of lying to protect her former boss, President Obama. Was
this just another instance of such lying?

3. This Makes The Left’s Trump-Russia Theories More Strained. We’ve been
hearing for months that Team Trump had nefarious ties with the Russian
government, that collusion took place between the Trump campaign and
Russian sources in order to coordinate the release of damaging
information from the DNC hacks. But if Rice was monitoring all
intelligence that came up regarding the Trump campaign, then where’s the
evidence that any of this supposedly nefarious activity was occurring?

The Rice story is a major story. It doesn’t mean that Americans don’t
have a right to be suspicious of supposed connections between Trump and
Russia; it also doesn’t mean that Trump had his wires “tapped” or was the
target of “spying,” as Tucker Carlson put it last night on Fox News. But
Trump and his team were a political target of the Obama administration,
and they apparently did everything they could within the law, including
abuse of power, to dig up information on the Republican running against
their former Secretary of State.

Source: http://bit.ly/2o5jHKv

[Rudy Canoza]

Post by Joe Cooper
Despite bombshell reports yesterday claiming that Obama National Security
Advisor Susan Rice “unmasked” members of the Trump campaign

Bullshit. *Allegedly*, according to your prior fake news on this (a
fucking shit-4-braincell *wage slave* nobody blackshirt, registered sex
offender and sodomite says it's fake), Rice *sought* to "unmask"
Trumpolini people. Now you're saying she did. That's a lie.

The whole thing is fake news. Just as a fucking shit-4-braincell *wage
slave* nobody blackshirt, registered sex offender and sodomite - he'll
tell you.

[PIBB]

Post by Rudy Canoza

Post by Joe Cooper
Despite bombshell reports yesterday claiming that Obama
National Security Advisor Susan Rice “unmasked” members of the
Trump campaign

Bullshit. *Allegedly*, according to your prior fake news on
this (a fucking shit-4-braincell *wage slave* nobody blackshirt,
registered sex offender and sodomite says it's fake), Rice
*sought* to "unmask" Trumpolini people. Now you're saying she
did. That's a lie.
The whole thing is fake news. Just as a fucking
shit-4-braincell *wage slave* nobody blackshirt, registered sex
offender and sodomite - he'll tell you.

The source of that story, "The American Thinker", is indulging in
an attempt to deflect attention from how Trump welcomed Russian
assistance in his election.

The deflection won't work and, in the end, there will be as much
investigation into Trump and Russia as is required.