My my my how many people knew about spying?

LucyLou · 2020-05-15T00:57:15.763Z

bootz:

I am reaching out on a limb here. perhaps everybody that was on the unmasking list knew of the surveillance of Flynn and others. That may be a leap but i believe it.

Flynn wasn’t under surveillance. If he was, there could not have been the unmasking.

LucyLou · 2020-05-15T00:59:21.430Z

DougBH:

So…the Obama administration is allowed to use government agencies to spy on political enemies because what, to even the numbers? Because…Nixon?

There was no spying on political enemies. If there were, there would be no unmasking.

LucyLou · 2020-05-15T01:10:48.014Z

DougBH:

Just saw Clapper lying about the unmasking on CNN. The guy leading him on says that when you unmask, you don’t know who is being unmasked…to which Clapper says you are exactly right. Then the interviewer throws in: So when you asked for the unmasking of the Russian, you had no idea that it was Flynn who would be unmasked? Clapper agrees, then realizes somebody can check into it: “Now its possible that the context could have suggested that it was Flynn, I don’t remember”.
Jeeze…they charged the wrong person for lying.

That is correct.

The name is masked in the intelligence report, so one doesn’t know who it is.

One might guess at who it’s going to be, because brains.

WuWei · 2020-05-15T01:33:45.768Z

LucyLou:

Flynn wasn’t under surveillance. If he was, there could not have been the unmasking.

LucyLou:

There was no spying on political enemies. If there were, there would be no unmasking.

So cute.

LucyLou · 2020-05-15T01:53:03.432Z

If Flynn was the target of surveillance, then why would he have been masked in the first place?

LucyLou · 2020-05-15T02:05:14.363Z

DougBH:

Yes, I consider using the government to spy on your political enemies to be a huge deal. But…one thing to consider:

Fox News headline today: Trump considers unmasking to be biggest political crime in history of country.

CNN and Yahoo news: What unmasking? Now if you want to continue to read about the person who was burned at Yellowstone…that’s news.

For half the country, this unmasking just didn’t happen or if it did it wasn’t much of a deal or CNN would have told us more about it.

Funny. Look who’s been busy busy busy busy unmasking the names of Americans.
"
There were 9,217 unmasking requests in the 12-month period between September 2015 and August 2016, the first period in which numbers are publicly available. The period was during the latter years of the Obama administration.

The number rose during the Trump administration. The 9,529 requests in 2017 grew to 16,721 in 2018 and 10,012 last year."

“There is nothing illegal about unmasking and the declassified document states that proper procedures were followed. While Trump casts unmasking as sinister, his administration has used the process more frequently than Obama’s.”

Federal News Network – 14 May 20

Q&A: What does ‘unmasking’ someone in an intel report mean? | Federal...

There is another kind of masking in the news that doesn't have anything to do with COVID-19…

Zander · 2020-05-15T02:08:09.266Z

Weedhopper:

Trump is doing to take down the criminals, Obama did it to protect his criminal activity like training ISIS selling Guns to Drug Cartels selling America’s uranium to our enemy, funding terrorism by paying Iran billions in cash.
Surprised you are unaware.

This pretty much sums it up. Thanks.

Zander · 2020-05-15T02:09:24.334Z

WuWei:

JayJay:

Selective outrage.

Selective targeting.

Biden isn’t even official yet and look at all this crap:

Incoherent

Creeping

Sex scandal

Involved in a coup

Lying on tv

Arrest for treason?

thinkingman · 2020-05-15T02:25:07.834Z

LucyLou:

thinkingman:

LucyLou:

bootz:

I am reaching out on a limb here. perhaps everybody that was on the unmasking list knew of the surveillance of Flynn and others. That may be a leap but i believe it.

Flynn wasn’t under surveillance. If he was, there could not have been the unmasking.

this is wrong. geeze

people who are being monitored (surveilled) are the ones who get unmasked if the agents deem it necessary

get knowledge before you roll out your stupid eyerolls

They aren’t masked in the first place if they are the target of surveillance.

Masking only occurs when an American gets caught up in surveillance of foreigners.

umm…

anyone subject to govt surveillance can have their identity revealed. thats what that means, unkay?

LucyLou · 2020-05-15T02:28:08.178Z

umm, they are only masked IF they are not the target of the surveillance. That’s literally what masking is.

The surveillance target is not masked. That would make no sense.

thinkingman · 2020-05-15T02:33:27.975Z

LucyLou:

umm, they are only masked IF they are not the target of the surveillance. That’s literally what masking is.

The surveillance target is not masked. That would make no sense.

lol. oh boy…

sorry, but thats wrong

those under surveillance have their identities hidden as appropriate. thats “masked”

Scratch · 2020-05-15T02:47:58.471Z

thinkingman:

those under surveillance have their identities hidden as appropriate. thats “masked

No…The names of people who are picked up incidentally during surveillance of another target are masked.

Unmasking by U.S. intelligence agencies typically occurs after the United States conducts eavesdropping or other intelligence gathering aimed at foreigners or foreign agents, and the name of a U.S. citizen or entity is incidentally collected. Intelligence reports are then disseminated within the U.S. government, with such names masked to protect those U.S. citizens from invasion of privacy. The names can subsequently be unmasked upon request by authorized U.S. government officials under certain circumstances.[1

JayJay · 2020-05-15T02:49:05.353Z

thinkingman:

LucyLou:

umm, they are only masked IF they are not the target of the surveillance. That’s literally what masking is.

The surveillance target is not masked. That would make no sense.

lol. oh boy…

sorry, but thats wrong

those under surveillance have their identities hidden as appropriate. thats “masked”

No it’s not wrong.

Targets of surveillance aren’t masked.

Flynn wasn’t who was under surveillance in the reports in which he was unmasked.

The Russian Ambassador was.

Guys getting all fired up about unmasking under Obama when the practiced has increased under Trump.

WuWei · 2020-05-15T03:07:30.675Z

LucyLou:

umm, they are only masked IF they are not the target of the surveillance. That’s literally what masking is.

The surveillance target is not masked. That would make no sense.

That’s incorrect.

WuWei · 2020-05-15T03:07:56.943Z

JayJay:

thinkingman:

LucyLou:

umm, they are only masked IF they are not the target of the surveillance. That’s literally what masking is.

The surveillance target is not masked. That would make no sense.

lol. oh boy…

sorry, but thats wrong

those under surveillance have their identities hidden as appropriate. thats “masked”

No it’s not wrong.

Targets of surveillance aren’t masked.

Flynn wasn’t who was under surveillance in the reports in which he was unmasked.

The Russian Ambassador was.

Guys getting all fired up about unmasking under Obama when the practiced has increased under Trump.

That’s the story.

PhilipNolan · 2020-05-15T03:15:14.619Z

LucyLou:

A privilege the Trump Administration has made way more use of than Obama ever did.

Looky there… another he did it too. LMAO

JayJay · 2020-05-15T03:15:52.482Z

PhilipNolan:

LucyLou:

A privilege the Trump Administration has made way more use of than Obama ever did.

Looky there… another he did it too. LMAO

Only one side is selectively outraged over the unmasking…

WuWei · 2020-05-15T03:55:11.547Z

LucyLou:

Read up on it.

And thanks for stopping by.

I have.

WuWei · 2020-05-15T03:57:51.105Z

JayJay:

PhilipNolan:

LucyLou:

A privilege the Trump Administration has made way more use of than Obama ever did.

Looky there… another he did it too. LMAO

Only one side is selectively outraged over the unmasking…

Not how many times in total the administration did it. If they are connections to China? Didn’t a professor just get busted for not reporting?

I read somewhere the Ambassador to Italy was one of them. Why?

Of course if it was me, FISA would cease to exist. Unmasking should require a warrant and show cause at a minimum.

wiley8425 · 2020-05-15T05:32:00.086Z

Speaking of selective outrage, have you seen some of the pardons?