04-12-2017, 12:04 PM
(04-12-2017, 11:51 AM)hollodero Wrote: Yeah it might be somewhat gray, but after knowing what to look for I have to admit that I would rather use the word lie than not if I had to break it down. She quite openly said she "knows nothing about this" regarding Trump team unmaskings. If the sources (anonymous ones, which both sides claim is problematic somehow) that say she did know and ask for unmasking are correct, she lied there. The interest might not have been political, but investigational, all that is granted, but well... for me, it still constitutes a lie.
I applied the same criteria with Sessions. - What means, whoever calls Rice liar because of this must, of course, also call Sessions a liar under oath and Trump a pathological liar. Wouldn't be coherent any other way.
She was asked if their names had been disclosed. She replied she didn't know nothing about that. Disclosing a name inappropriately to someone not authorized for that info is not the same as askling for a person's name in a report as part of the normal functions of the NSA. It's the same as a military intelligence officer asking for a redacted name in an intel report.
Whose names were disclosed? Who disclosed the names? To whom were the names disclosed? For what nefarious political purpose were the names disclosed?
If Nunes name was "unmasked" by Rice because he was speaking with a Russian who was being spied upon by the CIA, the American public didn't learn about it until after Nunes publicly disclosed that information after the Trump administration leaked the information to Nunes to take the heat if of them regarding the false wire tapp claims IOT start an "unmasking" scandal.
