{"id":30739,"date":"2017-04-30T16:11:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T20:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30739"},"modified":"2017-04-30T16:11:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T20:11:52","slug":"the-ever-changing-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30739","title":{"rendered":"The Ever-Changing Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are some serious problems with the actions of the Obama Administration in terms of unmasking American citizens<\/a> making phone calls. It is not an incredible coincidence that the unmasked citizens were people closely connected to the Trump presidential campaign. One name that has continually been mentioned as part of this unmasking is Susan Rice<\/a>. She appeared on the Sunday News Shows (hasn’t she done that before?) today to explain her innocence.<\/p>\n

The details are posted at Hot Air<\/a> today.<\/p>\n

Ms. Rice stated this morning:<\/p>\n

Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice denied President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s claim that she tried to unmask Americans in an attempt to implicate Trump campaign<\/a> officials, adding that she never did anything \u201cuntoward with respect to the intelligence\u201d she received.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During an interview with CNN<\/a>\u2019s \u201cFareed Zakaria GPS<\/a>\u201d airing Sunday morning, Rice said Trump\u2019s accusation is \u201cabsolutely false\u201d and that members of Congress<\/a> have not found anything inappropriate in the situation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI think now we\u2019ve had subsequently members of Congress on the intelligence committees on both sides of the aisle take a look at the information that apparently was the basis for Chairman [Devin] Nunes\u2019 concern, and say publicly that they didn\u2019t see anything that was unusual or untoward,\u201d Rice said, referring to the California<\/a> Republican.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But what has she said before? The article reports:<\/p>\n

You may recall that when the story first broke Rice spoke to Andrea Mitchell<\/a> on MSNBC and at least heavily implied<\/em> that Trump\u2019s initial accusations were all some sort of fever swamp fantasies. (What she actually said<\/em> was that she never leaked anything.) But before very long the details which emerged told a very different story. Within days it was revealed<\/a> that she had, in fact, actively sought to have names revealed to her even if they had originally been picked up \u201cincidentally.\u201d Eventually we reached the point where the best they could say was that it appeared that she hadn\u2019t done anything that was technically illegal<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, in the fashion so typical of politicians (as opposed to national security experts), she\u2019s answering an entirely different question. Yes, she did get that information but she never did anything \u201cunusual or untoward<\/em>\u201d with it. And why would we be so suspicious as to think she might have seen some value in data collected on people associated with the guy who was then in a heated battle to defeat the candidate who was promising to carry on her boss\u2019s legacy? Perish the thought.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the Justice Department<\/a> has actually become the Justice Department rather than a political arm of the Democrat party, someone will be charged with a crime in this matter. The leaking of the names and information to the media was illegal. The leaking of the information was exactly what some members of Congress warned about when the Patriot Act<\/a> was passed–that there would be eavesdropping on Americans that would be used for political purposes. What happened during the 2016 presidential campaign is an example of this. If no one is held accountable, it will continue to happen. That is not good news.<\/p>\n

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