Susan Rice

Susan Rice Is The Wrong Person To Attack Trump’s Credibility

... Obama stood by while hundreds of thousands died due to the conflict in Syria. While the initial intervention into Libya was based upon a limited mission of establishing a no fly zone, this was quickly turned into a vendetta to help the rebels remove Qaddafi. As the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi has revealed , Qaddafi was prepared to negotiate his abdication under a white flag of truce; the administration scuttled that offer. Obama was not honest about the unsigned Iran deal, either. While he claimed that this political arrangement would prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons, the agreement is, in fact, designed to legitimize the Iranian nuclear program. The mainstream media have been dishonest about the deal, as well, referring to it as signed when it is little more than a collection of political commitments. Obama has referred to it as signed as well, when he obviously knows it is not. In her article, Rice boasts that “Obama built broad coalitions ...

Remember When Susan Rice Said She Knew Nothing Of The Trump 'unmasking

... The former national security adviser went on to criticize the president's highly contested claim that former President Obama had Trump Tower's "wires tapped" during the 2016 election. However, the Bloomberg report published Monday casts doubt on her flat denial that she knew anything about the intelligence activities surrounding Trump and his people. "The pattern of Rice's requests was discovered in a National Security Council review of the government's policy on 'unmasking' the identities of individuals in the U. S. who are not targets of electronic eavesdropping, but whose communications are collected incidentally," the report read, citing multiple anonymous officials. The person who discovered that Rice had made several "unmasking" requests was reportedly Ezra Cohen-Watnick , who was brought into the Trump administration by retired Gen. Michael Flynn. Flynn resigned just a few weeks into his term as national security advisor after it was revealed he had ...

Trump Steps Up Effort To Dispute And Distract On Russia

... called for investigations into the disclosure of multiple intercepted conversations that Flynn had with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak before the inauguration. The government routinely monitors the communications of foreign officials in the U. S. It's illegal to publicly disclose such classified information. Officially, the White House said Flynn was forced to resign because he had given inaccurate descriptions of the discussions to Vice President Mike Pence and others in the White House. But Trump has continued to defend Flynn, suggesting he was only fired because information about his contacts came out in the media. "Michael Flynn, Gen. Flynn is a wonderful man," Trump said. "I think he's been treated very, very unfairly by the media.". THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION. White House officials say some Obama holdovers are part of a so-called deep state out to tear Trump down. Last week, the White House latched onto a month-old ...

Susan Rice Prompted Trump Aides' Unmasking In Intel Reports

... Published April 3, 2017, 12:56 PM EDT. A pair of anonymous U. S. officials told Bloomberg View columnist Eli Lake that former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the unmasking of U. S. persons in several intelligence reports containing information related to the Trump transition and campaign officials. As Lake noted in his Monday report, a senior official must believe that there is “some foreign intelligence value” in unmasking a U. S. person’s name, so Rice’s alleged requests were “likely within the law.” The National Security Council reportedly discovered the requests while reviewing how the government decides to unmask the redacted names of U. S. persons who get swept up in legal surveillance of foreign nationals. Here’s how Lake described the raw intelligence reports in which Trump staffers’ names were unmasked. The intelligence reports were summaries of monitored conversations — primarily between foreign officials discussing the Trump transition, but also in some cases direct contact between members of the Trump ...

Rush Limbaugh Rips ‘unmasking’ By Susan Rice, Says Obama ‘weaponized Everything’ To Destroy Trump

... to repeat a possibility that I mentioned,” Mr. Limbaugh said. “While [the Obama administration] couldn’t get a FISA warrant to target Americans, they purposely targeted for surveillance foreign actors that they knew Trump transition people would be talking to and learned what they were saying that way. And that’s why Rice was requesting that these people be unmasked so that she and Obama and whoever else in this operation would understand who was being talked about and who was saying what. …”. “The scandal is not Trump and the Russians,” he continued. “The scandal is the Obama administration and these embeds in the deep state surveilling targets with the express purpose of hoping to capture Americans as part of the surveillance.”. Ms. Rice did not respond to Bloomberg’s request for comment on Monday. She had previously told PBS’s “News Hour” in March that she knew ...

Why This Former Obama Staffer Is At The Center Of Right Wing Conspiracies

... of national security staffers. It is not the same as leaking information to the media, which can be illegal under some circumstances. Multiple former intel officials from GOP & Dem admins tell me the unmasking story is overblown. Tune in to @The Lead CNN at 425 p. — Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 3, 2017. What does it have to do with the Trump/Russia investigation. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said March 22 that Trump staffers had been incidentally caught up in Russia-related intelligence gathering. That same day, Nunes held a press conference where he alleged he'd been given documents that contained "details about people associated with the incoming administration… with little apparent foreign intelligence value.". While he re-stated that no evidence supported Trump's allegations of wiretapping, Nunes did ominously state: "I have confirmed that ...

Covering Trump Surveillance Story Helps Russia ‘undermine’ American Democracy

... reports had nothing to do with Russia. And in addition to that, it really depends on the context. I mean, yes, it’s true that you can have senior political appointees unmasking incidental collection like this if there were sort of a pending terrorist attack or some sort of – you know, a server was taken over by bots in a cyber attack of some sort like that. So that sort of thing happens, but, you know, the bar is pretty low. Is there sort of a foreign intelligence, you know, value to any of this? Which could mean just about anything. And in this particular case, it appears, at least – and I'd like to see the White House declassify these reports so we can all look at the evidence ourselves – but from my sources, it appears that this was, you know, pretty much rumor, valuable potential political information about the Trump transition plans for when they came into office and who they were meeting with and their views on foreign policy. Again, it's a pretty low bar and maybe the real scandal here is that the rules need to be tightened and the surveillance law needs to be reformed. TUR: Were you able ...

Susan Rice On Trump's Wiretapping Claim

... back Wednesday against President Donald Trump’s claim that he was wiretapped by the Obama administration during the 2016 election. “Nothing of the sort occurred,” Rice told PBS News Hour’s Judy Woodruff, in her first interview since stepping down as national security adviser when President Barack Obama left office. Rice also took aim at the Trump White House in a Washington Post op-ed Wednesday. “False statements from the White House are part of a disturbing pattern of behavior that poses real and potentially profound dangers to U. S. national security,” Rice wrote. In the PBS News Hour interview, Rice, who served as the U. S. ambassador to the United Nations during Obama’s first term, said the world was watching Trump’s presidency closely. “I think the world is not impervious to what happens here in the United States,” Rice said. “On the contrary, they watch it very, very carefully.”. Her remarks came shortly after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) met with Trump at the White House to discuss the panel’s investigation into Russia’s influence on last year’s presidential race. Nunes told reporters ...