New Evidence Suggests that Democrats Wanted Russia/Trump Investigation to Leak


Details about the government’s investigation into links between Trump and Russia leaked late last month, just as Democrats planned. Unfortunately, public perception of the investigation didn’t go the way they had hoped.

Do you suspect that the noise over Trump campaign contacts with the Russians is just a political hit arranged by Obama insiders before they left? You got fresh evidence of that Monday, with news that then-national security adviser Susan Rice was behind the “unmasking” of Trumpites in transcripts of calls with Russian officials.

Again, nothing on the public record so far shows that anyone on Team Trump said anything improper on those calls.

It’s no surprise that US spooks intercept foreign officials’ calls. But intelligence community reports don’t disclose the names of US citizens on the other end. To get that info, a high official must (but rarely does) push to “unmask” the Americans’ names.

Bloomberg’s Eli Lake now reports that Rice started doing just that last year.

That was perfectly legal. But we also know that the Obama administration later changed the classification of the “unmasked” transcripts, and other similar material, in order to spread the information as widely as possible within the government.

The motive for that was (supposedly) to prevent Team Trump from burying it all once it took over. But the result was that it made it relatively safe for someone (or someones) to leak the info to the press.

And, of course, the information was leaked. The only problem is that the investigation never uncovered any evidence of Russian collusion. So instead of burying Trump in scandal, the revelation has hurt Democrats more than anyone else. Trump’s record remains clean while the Obama administration has to fend off illegal spying rumors.

Source: NY Post



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