Ben Rhodes now a person of interest in House “unmasking” investigation

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Ben Rhodes now a person of interest in House “unmasking” investigation

AllahpunditPosted at 11:21 am on August 2, 2017

Intriguing, as the three main figures in the probe until now have been Susan Rice, John Brennan, and Samantha Power. It stands to reason that Rhodes would end up as a “person of interest,” though. As Obama’s deputy NSA, he surely did some “unmasking” in the course of his routine review of surveillance. The question Devin Nunes has is how much of that was proper, for valid national security reasons, and how much was partisan politics.

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http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/02/ben-rhodes-now-person-interest-house-unmasking-investigation/

[Sanguine]

No way!  Not that sterling character, Ben Rhodes!

[Right_in_Virginia]

Ben Rhodes new focus of 'unmasking' investigation
Fox News, Aug 2, 2017

Ben Rhodes, the longtime aide to former President Barack Obama who once bragged he didn’t “know anymore where I begin and Obama ends,” is the new focus of a House probe examining whether Obama staffers improperly requested the identities of American citizens during the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes wrote to National Security Agency head Adm. Michael Rogers on Aug. 1 requesting “the total number of unmasking requests made by” Rhodes in the 13 months preceding President Trump’s inauguration. “Unmasking” refers to the formal request to identify Americans in an intelligence document.

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The Intelligence Committee “found evidence that current and former government officials had easy access to U.S. person information and that it is possible that they used this information to achieve partisan political purposes, including the selective, anonymous leaking of such information,” Nunes wrote in a July letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.

He added that one unidentified official had made “hundreds of unmasking requests during the final year of the Obama Administration” and only one of those requests “offered a justification that was not boilerplate and articulated why” the identity of the person was needed.

Nunes’ letter appeared to reference Power as the anonymous official. Power’s attorney denied she leaked classified information but didn’t address the larger issues in Nunes’ letter.


More: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/02/ben-rhodes-new-focus-unmasking-investigation.html

[Bigun]

Biggest NEWS here is that the unmaskings were going on long before Trump ever entered the picture!  Don't hold your breath waiting to see that reported!