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Originally Posted by kane
A little more food for thought.
Today a story broke that the other members of the congressional intelligence committee that Nunes belongs to has now seen the papers that Nunes supposedly showed Drumpf that proved that Obama was wiretapping him and both the Democrats and Republicans on the committee have said that the documents contain nothing to back up his claims and that they contain nothing unusual.
Sounds like Nunes was talking out his ass.
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He was completely taking out of his ass. There is nothing illegal about "unmasking" someone.
The only reason they mask anything is to protect the privacy of every day average people - like you and me. I speak to people in Russia in a daily basis about routine business matters. It's even possible some of these discussions are recorded. Once they determine the call was routine and of no interest to the US government, the information is "masked". This way average people like all of us here on GFY don't have huge files at the CIA about every conversation we've ever had with someone in Russia.
However, when someone is a former officer in the United States Military or worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency and they speak to someone in the Russia government or someone who works for the government in China, well, there is no reason for it to be masked. It's a matter of national security. Even if it is routine, it's still added to his file.
What is most stunning is how this all came to light. Nunes originally claimed it was "whistle blowers" who showed him this information (lol, at the White House) and then he went to Trump with it. It was Trump's staff who showed it to Nunes, and obviously they had discussed it with Trump before showing it Nunes. If they didn't, they would have nothing more than people leaking information - the same people Trump is demanding we press charges against.
This is all bullshit. This was nothing more than an attempt to distract everyone from the truth, and it failed. In fact, it just made the Trump White House look silly.