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Re: Trump Haters Rush to Susan Rice’s Defense
« Reply #150 on: April 04, 2017, 02:21:08 pm »
Her best defense in this would seem to be saying that what she did was justified because of the horrible things revealed by the unmasking.  That there really was a valid national security purpose for this, and that she'd love nothing more than to talk about it.

The fact that neither she nor her defenders are making that argument does not bode well for her.

She needs to go to DOJ, tell them "Ben told me what to do" (a la Benghazi), and get  immunity.

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Re: CNN's Lemon calls Susan Rice story a 'diversion'
« Reply #151 on: April 04, 2017, 02:29:39 pm »
When we buy a new ladder the manufacturer must slap on more warning stickers than can fit on the ladder.

Magazine ads promoting drugs for sale now take up 3 pages so as to include all the warnings to assist the unsuspecting public.

Yet Don Lemon's show contains no warning for the unsuspecting public stating, "The views of the host are racist, Fascist, intended to deceive, and in most civilized nations would be banned from the airwaves.  Plus he's drunk most of the time."

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Re: CNN's Lemon calls Susan Rice story a 'diversion'
« Reply #152 on: April 04, 2017, 02:35:13 pm »
Lemon is obviously trying to make Lemonade out of a very bad situation for the Libs.
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Re: CNN's Lemon calls Susan Rice story a 'diversion'
« Reply #153 on: April 04, 2017, 02:45:56 pm »
The entire mainstream media are taking this tack, arguing that there is either no evidence that Susan Rice did anything wrong, or that she was acting within the scope of her legal authority, whatever she did.

Just try to imagine what they would have done had George W. Bush's National Security Director Condoleeza Rice been accused of listening to wiretapped conversations of President-elect Barack Obama's associates and then revealing their names.

All Hell would have broken loose.
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#FakeNews in Action: WaPo and NY Times REFUSE to Report on Susan Rice Blockbuster Scandal

Jim Hoft Apr 4th, 2017 9:05 am Leave a Comment

The #FakeNews media stooped to a new low this morning.

The Washington Post ran ANOTHER fake news report on the Trump-Putin non-scandal.
–BUT NO MENTION OF SUSAN RICE on its front page…

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/04/fakenews-action-wapo-ny-times-refuse-report-susan-rice-blockbuster-scandal/
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Re: CNN's Lemon calls Susan Rice story a 'diversion'
« Reply #155 on: April 04, 2017, 02:49:04 pm »
You all belong to the same club now.


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Re: CNN's Lemon calls Susan Rice story a 'diversion'
« Reply #156 on: April 04, 2017, 02:57:11 pm »
Liberal hack that should be imprisoned for calling himself a journalist.
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Susan Rice’s Enrichment Program[November 29, 2012]
« Reply #157 on: April 04, 2017, 03:01:13 pm »

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Susan Rice’s Enrichment Program
U.N. ambassador has investments in companies doing business with Iran, disclosure forms show

BY: Adam Kredo   
November 29, 2012 4:32 pm

The portfolio of embattled United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice includes investments of hundreds of thousands of dollars in several energy companies known for doing business with Iran, according to financial disclosure forms.

Rice, a possible nominee to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she steps down, has come under criticism for promulgating erroneous information about the September 11, 2012, attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans.

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Re: CNN's Lemon calls Susan Rice story a 'diversion'
« Reply #158 on: April 04, 2017, 03:02:57 pm »
Liberal hack that should be imprisoned for calling himself a journalist.

What's sad is that...unlike most of the Liberal hacks on TV these days...Lemon actually does have a degree in journalism and has worked his entire career in television.

He's not another Chris Matthews...Rachel Maddow or Anderson Cooper who only pretend to be journalists.
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Now we have no doubt how Rice continues to be insulated.  Hopefully Rand will be persistent in demanding she testify before Congress.
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Re: CNN's Lemon calls Susan Rice story a 'diversion'
« Reply #160 on: April 04, 2017, 03:06:02 pm »

“Let’s be very clear about this: there is no evidence whatsoever that the Trump team … was spied on illegally. There is no evidence that backs up the president’s original claim,” Lemon said.


Trump and his supporters are making a tactical error in complaining about the fact of surveillance, or the legality of "unmasking" the identities of US citizens swept in the surveillance.  Of course foreign interests operating in the US will be surveilled and US citizens will inevitably be swept in the surveillance.  US National Security officials will also obviously have the authority to know the identities of the US citizens swept.

The key issue that the Trump administration can win this on is the leaking of "unmasked" identities to the press.

The Obama administration politicized the Justice Department in its selective reaction to high-profile homicide cases, the IRS in its selective rejection of tax-exempt status for conservative groups, and now the intelligence community in selective leaking of unmasked US citizen identities.  In each case one could argue that the Federal Agency in question was exercising legal authority; the political motive of the exercise is the issue and, in my opinion, should be pursued as far as the law allows, including prosecution and jail time if proven adequately.

Lemon and others who are hysterically anti-Trump will continue to state that the surveillance was within appropriate legal authority.  The counterpoint is that leaking unmasked identities to the press is *not* within appropriate legal authority.

However if investigation reveals that surveillance of Russian interests focused on potential Trump transition team officials after concluding there was no evidence of collusion, then the surveillance itself, not just the leaking, should be considered potentially illegal.
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Re: CNN's Lemon calls Susan Rice story a 'diversion'
« Reply #161 on: April 04, 2017, 03:08:43 pm »
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The headline seems to say Lemon said that entirely on his own.  I saw that, and Lemon is basing his opinion on the report from Jim Sciutto, formerly of the state department who knows the rules dealing with intelligence information and was present.  Sciutto is CNN's national security correspondent.  It was Sciutto who first called this "a distraction".  He said, “This appears to be a story largely ginned up, partly as a distraction from this larger investigation...”.

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Re: CNN's Lemon calls Susan Rice story a 'diversion'
« Reply #162 on: April 04, 2017, 03:11:52 pm »
@mystery-ak

The headline seems to say Lemon said that entirely on his own.  I saw that, and Lemon is basing his opinion on the report from Jim Sciutto, formerly of the state department who knows the rules dealing with intelligence information and was present.  Sciutto is CNN's national security correspondent.  It was Sciutto who first called this "a distraction".  He said, “This appears to be a story largely ginned up, partly as a distraction from this larger investigation...”.

And, I'm guessing - defined "the story" very narrowly so as to be reasonably deniable?

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Re: CNN's Lemon calls Susan Rice story a 'diversion'
« Reply #163 on: April 04, 2017, 03:12:31 pm »
No Don, the sixteen year-old beach-boy you spent last weekend with at your mansion was a diversion. This is called a "story".

No doubt homoboy spends much time on his knees - either "diverting" himself or praying to the God he does not believe in that the Obama Regime Spying on Trump story does not grow legs and then tank treads, as did many other "non-stories" Trump started during the 2016 campaign.

The leftist mass media fecklessly continues the fruitless (heh) struggle to get the public to focus on what the homo and his cronies SAY about reality, rather than on the reality itself.

That strategery(sic) has much the same effectiveness of a Civil War-era uphill assault on a fortified hilltop. No sooner do the 'Crat forces charge up hill to be mercilessly slaughtered than they regroup and prepare for another charge. 

 
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Re: CNN's Lemon calls Susan Rice story a 'diversion'
« Reply #164 on: April 04, 2017, 03:34:15 pm »
Should CNN be considered a credible news source?

I am serious .   

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CNN's Lemon calls Susan Rice story a 'diversion'
By Joe Concha - 04/04/17 08:58 AM EDT

CNN’s Don Lemon described reports that former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice unmasked members of the Trump transition team a “diversion” during a report on Monday night.

Lemon then told his audience that his show “will not insult your intelligence” by focusing too much on the story.

“Let’s be very clear about this: there is no evidence whatsoever that the Trump team … was spied on illegally. There is no evidence that backs up the president’s original claim,” Lemon said.

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Re: CNN's Lemon calls Susan Rice story a 'diversion'
« Reply #165 on: April 04, 2017, 04:22:03 pm »
Should CNN be considered a credible news source?

I am serious .   

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Well the homo's statement is patently false on its face.
See, Flynn was forced to resign because of spying that was done by the 'Crats illegally and there is an ongoing investigation by law enforcement into that crime.

Also, since "zero" means "none" it's clear that at least two DEMOCRATS have come forward recently with evidence (their own statements) that illegal spying was done under pretense of "legal monitoring".

Susan Rice's voluminous requests for unmasking is utterly, completely and absolutely unprecedented in the history of the U.S. government.

Only a blithering partisan idiot like sour Lemon (who lost all credibility as a "journalist" long ago) would even make such a blatantly false, insufferably stupid statement.
 
So as far as anything reported by the homo, no, it has no credibility whatsoever. See, journalists are not supposed to engage in commentary or opinion, they are supposed to be reporting on facts.  Commentators issue opinions.

So again, as far as how a credible news organization is supposed to conduct itself (with objectivity and dedication to reporting facts, not opinions) CNN has zero credibility.

Remember when Donna Brazile used her position with CNN to feed questions to Hill-O-Lies Clinton before the CNN debate? Not once but at least TWICE (that we know of). She resigned after that but like Dan Rather after he resigned, Brazille has refused to apologize for or admit to what she did.

Not exactly what I'd call "professional journalism". So no, CNN has no credibility as anything more than a hyper-partisan "praetorian guard" which sees its rightful duty not as an impartial reporter of information but as an advocate for and a protector of leftist politicians.
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House Intel Dem: If Flynn Was Unmasked, It Would Have To Be Rice Who Did It

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8:39 PM 04/03/2017

 

WASHINGTON — A Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee agreed that if anyone unmasked President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, it would have to be Barack Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice.

“Well, I haven’t seen the documents yet, but she was the national security adviser. She had the– if anyone had the opportunity to unmask, it would be the national security adviser, because that person is giving advice to the president on issues around national security,” California Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier told The Daily Caller Monday night.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/03/house-intel-dem-if-flynn-was-unmasked-it-would-have-to-be-rice-who-did-it/#ixzz4dIalKTmE
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House Intel Dem: If Flynn Was Unmasked, It Would Have To Be Rice Who Did It

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8:39 PM 04/03/2017

 

WASHINGTON — A Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee agreed that if anyone unmasked President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, it would have to be Barack Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice.

“Well, I haven’t seen the documents yet, but she was the national security adviser. She had the– if anyone had the opportunity to unmask, it would be the national security adviser, because that person is giving advice to the president on issues around national security,” California Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier told The Daily Caller Monday night.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/03/house-intel-dem-if-flynn-was-unmasked-it-would-have-to-be-rice-who-did-it/#ixzz4dIalKTmE

If I am understanding her role as security advisor, it isn't illegal for her to unmask, but illegal to distribute the name and information to those without authority.
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Sen. Tom Cotton: "Susan Rice Is The Typhoid Mary Of The Obama Administration Foreign Policy"
Posted By Tim Hains  On Date April 4, 2017

Sen. Tom Cotton joins Hugh Hewitt to respond to the latest news that President Obama's National Security Adviser Susan Rice was using foreign inteligence to spy on Mike Flynn:

    TOM COTTON: Susan Rice is the Typhoid Mary of the Obama administration foreign policy, every time something went wrong, she seemed to turn up in the middle of it, whether it was these allegations of improper surveillance and unmasking, Benghazi, many of the other fiascos over the past eight years of the Obama administration.

Continued At: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/04/04/sen_tom_cotton_susan_rice_is_the_typhoid_mary_of_the_obama_administration.html

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CNN’s Cuomo: Rice story is ‘fake scandal’
« Reply #169 on: April 04, 2017, 05:03:54 pm »
CNN’s Cuomo: Rice story is ‘fake scandal’
By Joe Concha - 04/04/17 09:59 AM EDT

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo told viewers on Tuesday that the controversy surrounding former national security adviser Susan Rice is “another fake scandal being peddled by right-wing media.”

Cuomo offered the remarks about Rice’s reported request to know the identities of President Trump transition team members mentioned in intelligence briefings during CNN’s “New Day.”

Rice has been accused of unmasking the Trump transition members.

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Susan Rice on Surveillance: 'I Leaked Nothing to Nobody'
« Reply #170 on: April 04, 2017, 05:08:17 pm »
By Jason Devaney   |   Tuesday, 04 Apr 2017 12:12 PM

Former national security adviser Susan Rice insisted Tuesday she was simply doing her job by asking for the names of American citizens to be unmasked for intelligence gathering purposes last year, and she said she did not leak anything to the media.

In an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, Rice addressed a report Monday that said she played a role in revealing to the nation's intelligence community Americans' names — more specifically, people in no President Donald Trump's inner circle.

Rice denied leaking any names or information.

"I leaked nothing to nobody and never have and never would," Rice said.

Multiple times during the interview, Rice said her role in former President Barack Obama's White House included looking at intelligence reports in the form of communications between American and foreign citizens on a daily basis. Some of those reports required follow-ups on her part to find out who the Americans were.

When asked about what she may have done regarding members of Trump's team, Rice would not comment and said there was a tried-and-true process in place.

Rice did that say there was no specific intelligence collection on anyone in Trump Tower.

"There was no such collection or surveillance on Trump Tower or Trump individuals … The president of the United States and people in the White House, do not have the ability to order such collection."

Rice did add, however, that people in Trump Tower may have had their communications intercepted if they had been talking with foreign citizens.

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Attorney Sam Nunberg: Susan Rice Spying Reports 'No Surprise'
« Reply #171 on: April 04, 2017, 05:10:09 pm »
By Jason Devaney   |   Monday, 03 Apr 2017 08:37 PM

Attorney Sam Nunberg told Newsmax TV he's not surprised at Monday's news that former national security adviser Susan Rice allegedly helped collect intelligence on members of President Donald Trump's campaign and transition teams.

During an appearance on "Newsmax Prime," Nunberg told host Miranda Khan he believes misconduct surrounding intelligence collection went as high as former President Barack Obama himself.

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Susan Rice said she accessed unmasked intelligence reports, but not for political purposes by Circa News

April 4, 2017

Susan Rice, former national security adviser in the Obama administration, told MSBNC Tuesday she had accessed unmasked intelligence reports involving Donald Trump and his associates, but called claims she had done so for political purposes "absolutely false."

Rice accessed multiple intelligence reports during the end of Obama's presidency. Some of the reports were "unmasked," revealing the identities of then-candidate Trump and his associates. She also said her access of the data did not constitute wiretapping, despite Trump's claim he was wiretapped.

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Re: Susan Rice on Surveillance: 'I Leaked Nothing to Nobody'
« Reply #173 on: April 04, 2017, 05:28:17 pm »
But the double negative would literally mean she leaked something to somebody. Bad grammar or weasel answer, take your pick.
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She also said Benghazi was about a Youtube vid. She is a proven liar.