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Trump is admitting that his kids were involved with foreign powers under surveillance in a way that got them picked up? Yikes. That could open them up to criminal probes from an unbiased independent IG.
Again, unmasking follows a process and is normal procedure to ID risks and influences. Trump is the one who just made a revelation that his kids are shady. (Maybe not that much of a revelation.)
SM1 - you always seem to claim you know everything...pandemic playbook expert, clinical trial expert, U.S. intelligence expert. there’s nothing wrong with talking to a foreign individual, but when that citizen is an official working to actively undermine U.S. sanctions that creates suspicion, so they want to know who it is. The way you word your argument claims they knew it was a trump campaign official and they purposefully unmasked Flynn because they knew it’d hurt Trump. Did it maybe cross your mind once the conversation that was surveilled involved an unknown U.S. official (at the time) having conversations that undermined U.S. sanctions against a foreign adversary? Gee, wouldn’t you also want to know who that official may be that’s working against the government?
Trump claims the Obama administration unmasked his kids, but where’s the proof? This is like the time he claimed Obama wiretapped him, then there was no evidence. Even if it were true, does it ever cross your mind they were also involved in actively undermining government actions against a foreign adversary?
“The name is released only if the official requesting it has a need to know and the "identity is necessary to understand foreign intelligence information or assess its importance", according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's latest report, which includes statistics on unmasking.”
"In general, senior officials make the requests when necessary to understand the underlying intelligence. I myself did it several times a month and NSA adjudicates the request. You can't do your job without it."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/explainer-unmasking-obama-officials-200514164504715.html
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OP - what exactly does this mean?
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A1 Why do you think masking of US Citizens is required at all?
Do you honestly believe that anyone communicating with foreigners who are under surveillance are implicated in potential wrongdoing and by definition should therefore be unmarked? In other words, we should unmask everyone?
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Sounds like Donny Boy is getting confused again
Let’s be real. Nada is going to come of it. This will get drowned out / justified by Trump campaign that as individuals selected to be part of his cabinet that they needed to meet with whoever. Didn’t this come up before with Jr. and it went nowhere?🤦🏽♀️