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kpete

(72,005 posts)
Fri May 15, 2020, 08:43 PM May 2020

The '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 Flynn’s behavior “is a bad look for him—not 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 know—without 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

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The 'Unmasking' List Is Bad News for Michael Flynn (Original Post) kpete May 2020 OP
Yes it was dozens of officials that blew the whistle, pbmus May 2020 #1
This is the problem with putting stupid, inexperienced toadies in positions like DNI leftieNanner May 2020 #2
Well said...agree. nt iluvtennis May 2020 #3
We're fucked AnnieBW May 2020 #4
You'll make it! My last 90 days (eons ago) seemed like *forever*!1 UTUSN May 2020 #6
Excellently put! UTUSN May 2020 #5
this entire controvery is literally a play on words........ Takket May 2020 #7
kick for visibility. lamp_shade May 2020 #8

pbmus

(12,422 posts)
1. Yes it was dozens of officials that blew the whistle,
Fri May 15, 2020, 08:48 PM
May 2020

Not just the best President in my lifetime...

leftieNanner

(15,137 posts)
2. This is the problem with putting stupid, inexperienced toadies in positions like DNI
Fri May 15, 2020, 08:49 PM
May 2020

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?


UTUSN

(70,720 posts)
6. You'll make it! My last 90 days (eons ago) seemed like *forever*!1
Fri May 15, 2020, 11:28 PM
May 2020

After that, unfortunately, retirement goes in Light Years!1







Takket

(21,600 posts)
7. this entire controvery is literally a play on words........
Fri May 15, 2020, 11:30 PM
May 2020

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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