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Intelligence Chairman Accuses Obama Aids of Hundreds of Unmasking Requests (thehill.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the un-masking dept.

mi writes: When American spies capture our communications with foreigners, the identities of Americans on the other side of the conversation are generally protected -- if not by bona-fide laws, then certainly by rules and regulations. A transcript of the conversation should have their name replaced with labels like "U.S. person 1". The citizen involved can only be "unmasked" with a good reason. In 2011, Obama relaxed these rules, making it much simpler even for officials without any intelligence role to obtain the identities. Predictably, certain top officials of the Obama Administration abused their access to get this information: "The [House Intelligence] committee has learned that one official, whose position had no apparent intelligence related function, made hundreds of unmasking requests during the final year of the Obama administration," [Intelligence Chairman Devin] Nunes wrote. "Of those requests, only one offered a justification that was not boilerplate."

6 of 330 comments (clear)

  1. *aides by richy+freeway · · Score: 4, Informative

    See subject

  2. Re: Nunes is not actually Chairman of the Intel Cm by Nidi62 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Who gives a shit about the messenger, if the message is true?

    Looking at some recent tweet storms regarding leaks, it seems Trump does.

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  3. Re: Vague accusations from one of Trump's people by halivar · · Score: 3, Informative

    And to be clear, we're talking out tens of millions of dollars. So, not "a handful."

  4. more bullshit by meglon · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/...

    Nunes is a bigger lying piece of shit than even "mi" is, and that's saying an lot.

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  5. Re:Not just party preservation. Ideology preservat by Dragonslicer · · Score: 4, Informative

    ACA is remaining because the majority in Washington are left of center, Republican and Democrat.

    Only if you consider the Church of Ayn Rand to be the center. In the rest of the (real) world, the Democratic party is to slightly to somewhat right of center, and the Republican party is moderately to far right.

  6. Re: Not just party preservation. Ideology preserva by Cyberax · · Score: 3, Informative

    BS. ACA was discussed for many months with tons of hearings. The final text was known and scored by the CBO. Pelosi's comment was a joke answer to a request to read the bill aloud - a delaying tactic by Reps.