Steve Bannon.

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(04-12-2017, 06:05 PM)hollodero Wrote: Nothing improper, possibly no political gain, that's all not what I'm arguing.

To put it simple, when Rice is asked if she knows about incidental surveillance resulting in unmasking (and again, I see the word "disclosed" not in the sense of "made public", but "unmasked in surveillance reports") of Trump aides, there are two possible truthful answers, from what I know:

1. Yes, that happened
2. I can't talk about that.

But saying "I don't know anything about this", it just seems like not being quite true. Again, that's all I argue. Not that there was something shady going on, something unlawful or whatever. You read the question and her answer differently, and fair enough, let's leave it at that.

The Trump administration is accusing her of wrongdoing which the underlying reason she was even interviewed about this.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/04/susan-rice-denies-leaking-trump-associate-intel-defends-unmasking-requests.amp.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thinkprogress.org/amp/p/7394822d74d3


https://www.google.com/amp/s/thinkprogress.org/amp/p/1a72785b100e

Back to Matt's link:

Quote:Woodruff: "We’ve been following a disclosure by the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, that in essence, during the final days of the Obama administration, during the transition, after President Trump had been elected, that he and the people around him may have been caught up in surveillance of foreign individuals in that their identities may have been disclosed. Do you know anything about this?"

Rice: I know nothing about this. I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today.

No one's identity was disclosed until the Trump administration disclosed identities by leaking this story in an attempt to back up Trump's false wire tapping claim.

Quote:Let’s back up and recall where we have been. The president of the United States accused his predecessor, President Obama, of wiretapping Trump tower during the campaign. Nothing of the sort occurred, and we’ve heard that confirmed by the director of the FBI, who also pointed out that no president, no White House, can order the surveillance of another American citizen. That can only come from the Justice Department with approval of a FISA court.

So today, I really don’t know to what Chairman Nunes was referring. But he said whatever he was referring to was a legal, lawful surveillance, and it was potentially incidental collection on American citizens. I think it’s important for people to understand what "incidental" means. That means that the target was either a foreign entity or somebody under criminal investigation, and the Americans who were talking to those targets may have been picked up.

If she admits she is aware of unmasking of US citizens talking to Russian agents or states "I can't talk about that," what else does that confirm?

It confirms to the Russians their conversations are being monitored. Which they should know already, right? Kinda like Hillary and the Democrats should have known not to use unsecure email. But, there is the potential it could compromise ongoing intelligence operations.