Nunes-led House Intelligence Committee asked for unmaskings of Americans
Source: Washington Post
By Adam Entous and Ellen Nakashima June 2 at 6:26 PM
The Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee asked U.S. spy agencies late last year to reveal the names of U.S. individuals or organizations contained in classified intelligence on Russias meddling in the 2016 election, engaging in the same practice that President Trump has accused the Obama administration of abusing, current and former officials said.
The chairman of the committee, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), has since cast the practice of unmasking of U.S. individuals and organizations mentioned in classified reports as an abuse of surveillance powers by the outgoing Obama administration.
Trump has argued that investigators should focus their attention on former officials leaking names from intelligence reports, rather than whether the Kremlin coordinated its activities with the Trump campaign, an allegation he has denied. The big story is the unmasking and surveillance of people that took place during the Obama administration, Trump tweeted Thursday.
According to a tally by U.S. spy agencies, the House Intelligence Committee requested five to six unmaskings of U.S. organizations or individuals related to Trump or Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton between June 2016 and January 2017. Officials familiar with the matter said that the committees requests focused on the identities of U.S. organizations that had been hacked by the Russians in 2016. Officials declined to say how many of the requests came from Democrats vs. Republicans.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nunes-led-house-intelligence-committee-requested-unmaskings-of-americans/2017/06/02/5c098dc0-47bc-11e7-98cd-af64b4fe2dfc_story.html
Thanks to the thread in GD - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029151108
Link to tweet
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)We are close to complete disaster either world war over Sweden or civil war here.
None of us, you, are safe from either group.
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)DK504
(3,847 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Nice....
BumRushDaShow
(129,522 posts)From the OP link -
"In contrast to the committees handful of unmasking requests, officials said the tally showed that ***Rice requested a single unmasking**** related to Trumps activities between June and January."
(emphasis mine since we can't do any bold/underline code)
Renew Deal
(81,873 posts)Besides being a conspirator.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)We are veering off into an intensifying Maelstrom of Malevolent KGOP Deceit. - spearheaded by the ill-willed republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, Comrade Casino.