Here’s Why So Many Treasury Department Officials Requested Unmaskings of Gen. Flynn
Posted at 3:18 pm on May 19, 2020 by Elizabeth Vaughn
We all wondered why the names of so many Obama Treasury Department officials appeared on the list of those who requested unmaskings of Gen. Michael Flynn’s telephone calls. The requests all came on December 14, 2016 and were made by then-Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew (Lew made a second request on January 12, 2017), then-Acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Arthur “Danny†McGlynn, then-Acting Assistant Deputy Secretary Mike Neufeld, then-Deputy Secretary Sarah Raskin, then-Under Secretary Nathan Sheets and then Acting Under Secretary Adam Szubin.
(Note: Sarah Raskin is married to anti-Trumper Rep. Jamin B. “Jamie†Raskin (D.-Md.), who served as one of the House Managers in the Senate impeachment trial.)
Powerline’s John Hinderaker may have found the answer in an Ohio Star article entitled “The Treasury Department Spied on Flynn, Manafort, and the Trump Family, Says Whistleblower.†The article states:
President Barack Obama’s Treasury Department regularly surveilled retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn’s financial records and transactions beginning in December 2015 and well into 2017, before, during and after when he served at the White House as President Donald Trump’s National Security Director, a former senior Treasury Department official, and veteran of the intelligence community, told the Star Newspapers.
“I started seeing things that were not correct, so I did my own little investigation, because I wanted to make sure what I was seeing was correct†she said. “You never want to draw attention to something if there is not anything there.â€
The whistleblower said she only saw metadata, that is names and dates when the general’s financial records were accessed. “I never saw what they saw.â€
By March 2016, the whistleblower said she and a colleague, who was detailed to Treasury from the intelligence community, became convinced that the surveillance of Flynn was not tied to legitimate criminal or national security concerns, but was straight-up political surveillance among other illegal activity occurring at Treasury.
“When I showed it to her, what she said, ‘Oh, sh%t!’ and I knew right then and there that I was right – this was some shady stuff,†the whistleblower said.
“It wasn’t just him,†the whistleblower said. “They were targeting other U.S. citizens, as well.â€
Only two names are listed in the whistleblower’s official paperwork, so the others must remain sealed, she said. The second name is Paul J. Manafort Jr., the one-time chairman of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The other names include: Members of Congress, the most senior staffers on the 2016 Trump campaign and members of Trump’s family, she said.
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https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/05/19/heres-why-so-many-treasury-department-officials-requested-unmaskings-of-gen.-flynn/
