President Plays Up 'Unmasking' Report, Criticizes Russia Coverage

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/WSJ

President Donald Trump on Saturday pressed his unsubstantiated claims that his presidential campaign was improperly spied on, referencing a media report about the names of Trump campaign officials being “unmasked” in intelligence reports.

“Wow, @FoxNews just reporting big news,” Mr. Trump tweeted, paraphrasing lines from the story, which was published on Friday.

“Source: ”Official behind unmasking is high up. Known Intel official is responsible. Some unmasked.... not associated with Russia. Trump team spied on before he was nominated. If this is true, does not get much bigger. Would be sad for U.S.”

“Unmasking” refers to the process of un-redacting the name of a U.S. person in classified reports. Only a small number of senior officials have the authority to reveal the identities of U.S. persons caught up in surveillance. Unmasking a name without a valid reason or authorization would violate rules designed to protect the privacy of people incidentally caught up in authorized surveillance.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/president-plays-up-unmasking-report-criticizes-russia-coverage/ar-BBzau4g

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Trump continues to double down on the wiretapping lie even though his scheme with Nunes was exposed.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. I just think they're making it up as they go along

The guy who sent his own investigative team to Hawaii to locate a birth certificate
is peeved about what exactly?

[former9thward]

7. You are confusing Trump with Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona.

The sheriff sent the team to Hawaii.

[Saboburns]

9. Er, um Trump sent a crew to Hawaii

And then bragged that he successfully got Obama to show his Birth Certificate. Years after Obama already showed his birth certificate.

[former9thward]

11. Er, um no Trump didn't.

He claimed he did. Sheriff Joe Arpaio actually did.

There’s Still No Evidence That Trump Sent Investigators To Hawaii To Dig Up Dirt On Obama




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-hawaii-investigators_us_57dc3bffe4b04a1497b46da1

[Thomas Hurt]

2. get back to me....

when you have proof that the unmasking was done improperly.

When you know who did it, and that violated the rules, fire them.

Turn the case over to DOJ to see if they broke the law.

give them their due process and if found guilty punish them under our laws.


but since this has nothing to do with Russia, why is that stopping the investigations into Trump his lackeys and Russia?

maybe the FBI should be investigating Nunes, his NSC "deep throats", and Trump for obstruction.......

[CincyDem]

3. I don't think this is a double down...it's s subtle shift in the claim.

Initially, the claim was BHO tapped my phones in trump tower.

Now that this has been exposed in several directions as total bullchit, we have a new claim.

BHO (and his crowd) abused their power to unmask US citizens that "inadvertently" got caught up in valid FISA investigations.

Common game with folks like him...keep the target moving but close enough that it just seems to be the same never ending story.

He's such an asshat.

[dalton99a]

13. Yep.

[old guy]

4. He is playing to an audience that is getting ever smaller.

[elfin]

5. Still not sure if they were really "unmasked" or if it is evident who they might be

by the context of the monitored communication. Or at least evident enough to Nunes, who used it as a pretext to perform a Trump sideshow to crash the committee and derail Sally Yates' testimony.

[wishstar]

10. I heard Nunes say they were masked but since he could figure out who they were, so could others

He said more than once that although masked, their identities were evident. His ridiculously flimsy complaint seemed to be that info should not have been gathered or disseminated because potential leakers could unmask the names.

This whole charade is ridiculous irrelevant grasping at straws, since he said the intelligence was gathered legally, names had been masked and Americans were not target of surveillance and Russia was not involved.

[msongs]

6. not really LBN. just more random twit junk. nt

[mdbl]

8. and Nixon was not a crook!

Trump sounds just like Nixon if he were a 12 year old boy on twitter.

[Sunlei]

12. Mr. Trump when will you "unmask" the Republicans who backed your campaign use of stolen files?

Everyone knows who your campaign officials were because you bragged about them & made them do interviews for you.

[FakeNoose]

14. Hey Trump, it was Putin who "spied" on you

... and you know it, so stop deflecting and start packing.
You're leaving soon.