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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 'Unmasking' List Is Bad News for Michael Flynn
Former FBI counterintelligence agent Asha Rangappa tells Vanity Fair that contrary to the Trumpian line, the volume of unmasking requests related to Michael Flynns behavior is a bad look for himnot the Obama administration.
Said Rangappa: This does not help Flynn. This is a long list of names of people across disparate areas of government who independently felt that the intelligence reports they were reading were so alarming that they needed to knowwithout knowing, by the way, who it was beforehand[who] the person was that was engaging in that communication or activity.
Driving this point home, Rangappa asked of Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell: Why not go ahead and disclose the underlying intelligence report?
https://politicalwire.com/2020/05/15/the-unmasking-list-is-bad-news-for-michael-flynn/
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/donald-trump-mike-flynn-unmasking
pbmus
(12,422 posts)Not just the best President in my lifetime...
leftieNanner
(15,218 posts)Grenell thinks he's "all that and a bag of chips" as my kids used to say.
But he doesn't have a full understanding of the intelligence community at all. The way this has been handled - these guys thinking they are being so clever - has backfired and will continue to backfire until Ass Face moves on to his next distraction.
I feel so safe, knowing that this lunatic is in charge of the IC, don't you?
iluvtennis
(19,937 posts)AnnieBW
(10,493 posts)I have 6 months to go until my Minimum Retirement Age. I just want to GTFO.
UTUSN
(70,862 posts)After that, unfortunately, retirement goes in Light Years!1
UTUSN
(70,862 posts)Takket
(21,758 posts)Everyone remembers "unmasking" in terms of what happened to Valerie Plame, and as such the GOP is hoping that the fact that word is also used in this commonplace practice will trigger the psyche of the American citizen to think something horrible that compromises national security has happened........
it will fail spectacularly because judge sullvian is 500 moves ahead of these bozos on the Chess board.
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