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Stinky The Clown

(67,807 posts)
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 07:50 PM Apr 2017

How 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.

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HoneyBadger

(2,297 posts)
1. Are you saying that she did it and will unmask everyone?
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 07:51 PM
Apr 2017

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)
3. She probably asked for unmasking, so that
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 07:54 PM
Apr 2017

she would know who were the treasonous snakes in the grass. Yeah Nunnes, call her up to testify. I hope she calls his bluff.

Warpy

(111,270 posts)
7. The right wing has pointed fingers at her as the one who "unmasked" Flynn and Manafort
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 08:29 PM
Apr 2017

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)
8. "Unmasked" is a misleading word
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 08:45 PM
Apr 2017

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)
11. She sure as the world scared the
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 08:56 PM
Apr 2017

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)
12. She has said she didn't know what Nunes was yapping about. She did request to unmask US Person(s)
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 09:01 PM
Apr 2017

when she needed to better understand reports she was reading.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
2. Oh please please please call her to testify!
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 07:52 PM
Apr 2017

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.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
6. She's seriously badass.
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 08:11 PM
Apr 2017

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)
9. NBC:Susan Rice Speaks Out on Unmasking Accusations: I Leaked Nothing to Nobody
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 08:49 PM
Apr 2017
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/susan-rice-speaks-out-unmasking-accusations-i-leaked-nothing-nobody-n742486

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)
10. Her demeanor, poise,intelligence and eloquence in the Andrea Mitchell interview
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 08:49 PM
Apr 2017

was striking. Serious badass.

 

nikibatts

(2,198 posts)
13. Now it is being reported that she was not the person who asked for the unmasking. WTF?
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 10:43 PM
Apr 2017

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)
14. Female - Black - Obama Administration SuperStar - and someone asks y Repukes are
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 10:45 PM
Apr 2017

all over yet another made up 'scandal?'

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