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Originally Posted by Rochard
I am not sure what you rambling on about when you are talking about the unmasking of names and I don't really care.
Are you saying reports were sent out to 16 different agencies and they contained the names involved? Um, wouldn't that be standard? I mean.... If I call the top Russian spy in the United States and discuss illegal things, wouldn't the CIA write up a report and send it to Homeland Security and the FBI and a dozen other agencies... right? If this happened, why would my name be required to be "masked" or hidden? Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of the reports?
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You see....those statements are exactly why you should understand the subject or at least watch the news or google things up before you post.
First sentence: You don't know or understand what or why masking is done on these conversations. READ THE CONSTITUTION. KNOW THE LAW. I'll leave it there for you because I'm going further in the next part of this post.
Rochard, you can NOT "wire tap" a U.S. citizen without a FISA court order. A Judge has to issue that.
However...even though the media and Democrats try to say that refugees in other countries have the same constitutional rights as we do (they don't)...the govt. is NOT required to get any kind of court oversight to spy on anyone else in the entire world.
The "Masking" is required by law if a U.S. citizen is captured on audio during the spying. That U.S. citizen does NOT have a court order allowing him/her to be spied on.
According to what spy's have been saying on the news...this happens multitudes of times every hour on the hour.
Emails, phone calls, etc. all being captured by spy agencys. And yeah...YOU have been recorded most likely "incidentally". Could have been at any industry show you have been to when you spoke to anybody from another country.
Or at your work when you email or phone someone from any country.
All of that data is "masked" for the U.S. citizen. It is then ANALYZED by the agency that "collected" it (spied on you). Then IF it has any relevance to national security...a report of the analysis is sent up the chain of command with U.S. citizens names "masked".
THEN if the head of the agency decides it is important...it is sent to the other appropriate agencys.
In these dozens of cases in question...that was NOT done. The names were left unmasked. And then the RAW data was sent out to all the agency's.
Totally ILLEGAL and unconstitutional.
This is a major case of someone using our spy agency's to hurt their political opponent. Third world country shit.
It's very, very dangerous and there needs to be accountability for it.
And "no", it's not "whistle-blowing". There was nothing illegal in any of the transcripts that Nunes was allowed to see. EXCEPT the very fact that the reports existed and had unmasked names and were leaked to the media in the first place.
This is dangerous stuff Rochard. This is like handing over the inner workings of our intelligence agencys to our enemies.