Daniel Chaitin:
The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward warned on Wednesday that there are people from the Obama administration who could be facing criminal charges for unmasking the names of Trump transition team members from surveillance of foreign officials.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said earlier that he had briefed Trump on new information, unrelated to an investigation into Russian activities, that suggested that several members of Trump’s transition team and perhaps Trump himself had their identities “unmasked” after their communications were intercepted by U.S. intelligence officials.
The revelation is notable because identities of Americans are generally supposed to remain “masked” if American communications are swept up during surveillance of foreign individuals.
During an interview on Fox News, Woodward said that if that information about the unmasking is true, “it is a gross violation.”
He said it isn’t Trump’s assertion, without proof, that his predecessor wiretapped Trump Tower that is of concern, but rather that intelligence officials named the Americans being discussed in intercepted communications.
“You can learn all kinds of things from diplomats gossiping, because that’s what occurs. Under the rules, and they are pretty strict, it’s called minimization. You don’t name the American person who is being discussed,” Woodward said.
He noted that there are about 20 people in the intelligence community who, for intelligence reasons, can order this “minimization” be removed.
And Obama just happens to vacationing in a country that has no extradition for political crimes, will someone really crack and the full extent of spying on political opposition, what gave him his second term, stand down orders for Benghazi, the Seal team 6 slaughter so many other horrible conspiracies.
No wonder up til now other Presidents just go quietly, there is always someone left behind that knows things.
Dont ever expect any big headlines in the New York Slimes,Washington Compost,Boston Glob, or Atlanta Urinal/Constipation and no big news in SLIME,ROLLONG STONED,USA DECAY and nothing much from the talking head at DECAY SHOW,GMA,60 Mini-Nuts and the BS news(CBS)News
Clarice Feldman provided a good assessment of recent events and published articles to support the premise that the Obama administration “wire tapped” the Trump transformation team and may still be recording the conversations and leaking Trump administration conversations. I know the left has gone wild over the 1960s term for surveillance “wire tapping” . Our enemies are much more sophisticated these days. They can ping your window pane with lasers or take your wireless conversation out of the air with out tapping a wire. It is ignorant to think that Trumps term “wire tapping” only referred to putting a recording device on a hard wired telephone, but then what do you call those who are indoctrinated so deeply in the liberal doctrine that they can no longer comprehend there are meanings and definitions well beyond their comprehension.
Feldman’s piece is worth a read: She makes a good case!http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/03/obama_did_wiretap_trump_its_like_putting_together_a_russian_nesting_doll.html