http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/08/how_ben_rhodes_will_fight_back.html
The unmasking scandal has suctioned in the name of President Obama's "mind meld," deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, according to a report from Sara A. Carter of Circa, citing congressional sources.
Rhodes, along with Susan Rice, Samantha Power, John Brennan, and other Obama loyalists, has been accused of "unmasking" innocent Americans whose names were caught up in intelligence dragnets directed at foreign targets in the House Intelligence Committee investigation. The tool is so strong as a surveillance instrument that U.S. intelligence agencies are legally bound to keep names of Americans "masked" to avoid spying on them.
If an official reading an intelligence report wants to unmask a name, it has to be for grave national security purposes. Team Obama found hundreds and hundreds of grave national security purposes as they unmasked hundreds of Americans, significantly higher in the final year of Obama's term as president, according to Carter, who wrote:
According to the documents reviewed by Circa, government officials conducted 30,355 searches in 2016 seeking information about Americans in NSA intercept meta-data, which include telephone numbers and email addresses. The activity was a 27.5 percent increase over the prior year and more than triple the 9,500 such searches that occurred in 2013, the first year such data was kept. In 2016 the administration also scoured the actual contents of NSA intercepted calls and emails for 5,288 Americans, an increase of 13 percent over the prior year and a massive spike from the 198 names searched in 2013, according to the data.
As Breitbart News points out some of these unmaskings were followed by leaks to the press.
This raises questions about whether Team Obama used U.S. intelligence resources, paid for by all Americans for their own national security, for shady partisan political purposes instead.
So now Rhodes, who rose to the title of deputy national security adviser, is being called a "person of interest" in the unmasking investigation of the House Intelligence Committee, along with his close Twitter friends Rice, Power, and other Obama officials. We'd like to see Vice President Joe Biden's national security adviser, Colin Kahl, come up, too. Rhodes and Kahl are close on Twitter.
Would Rhodes be the sort to do it? My vote is yes. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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