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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow big a badass is Susan Rice?
I suspect she's a seriously bad badass.
I HOPE she gets called to testify to both congressional Intel committees. I suspect she will not allow herself to be pushed around. I REALLY hope they ask her about the unmasking, because of what those conversations might be about.
Calling her will be, I suspect, a mass dick-stepping-upon for the right wing politicians now calling her out as a nefarious figure.
Susan Rice - just another black women who the right continues to disrespect at their own peril.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Because I have not had much time today but saw in the 2 minutes that I watched MSNBC at the gym that she knew nothing about it.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)she would know who were the treasonous snakes in the grass. Yeah Nunnes, call her up to testify. I hope she calls his bluff.
Stinky The Clown
(67,807 posts)She did her job as National Security Advisor..
I don't know what "it" you're on about.
Warpy
(111,270 posts)which is ridiculous since anybody who could read and get to Wikipedia knew those guys were bad news and in bed with the Russians long before the Asshole fired them. Following more of the names in their reports led you to Russian bad actors and tracking them down led you to mobsters. Republicans don't read, so they ASSumed it had to be a perfidious Democrat, even though they have no idea what "perfidious" means.
She is smart and tough. I suspect she will hand any Republican committee their asses.
lapucelle
(18,268 posts)that the right will use to their advantage.
Susan Rice went to the appropriate agency to request that the identity of an unnamed American in an intelligence report be made known to her for reasons within the scope of her duties. The agency unmasked him. Susan Rice stated today that she did not leak that unmasked name to anyone.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)crap out of Trump. Notice today Trump's new best friend,Rand Paul is his new attack bitch against Rice. I guess a round of Golf with Trump produces cash rewards.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)when she needed to better understand reports she was reading.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)The Republicans probably dismiss her as a black woman. She's actually a black woman who is smart, articulate, and professional. She'll wipe the floor with their asses.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)She is a person who is smart, articulate, professional, a woman and black.
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)They've gone after her several times. She needs one of those gifs of her brushing the dust off her shoulders.
wishstar
(5,270 posts)Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice on Tuesday flatly denied that she sought to improperly "unmask" Trump campaign officials whose conversations were caught on surveillance by U.S. intelligence services.
"The allegation is that somehow the Obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes, " Rice said in an exclusive interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell. "That's absolutely false."
Rice denied revealing the name of Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, who resigned after his communications with Russian officials became public.
"I leaked nothing to nobody and never have and never would," Rice said.
Nor, Rice said, was she aware that Flynn was lobbyist for Turkey.
"MSNBC terrorism analyst Malcolm Nance, retired United States Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer in naval cryptology, said Rice said as much as she could. And he dismissed the story as "smoke and mirrors" by the Trump administration to distract from ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election.
NBC has learned that Rice didn't and couldn't "order" the unmasking of any American because only the agencies that gathered the surveillance (usually the NSA or FBI) can make that call and the process is subject to rules and reviewed by lawyers.
The bar is high too because there has to be a legitimate intelligence reason to justify identifying the person or persons."
///Good article with Rice speaking her mind and debunking rightwing talking points///
panader0
(25,816 posts)was striking. Serious badass.
nikibatts
(2,198 posts)Maybe I misheard this. Also, 45 is going after Andrea...PR person for the Democrats. I guess he hasn't been watching her until today.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,435 posts)all over yet another made up 'scandal?'