Op-ed:

Read Between the Redactions

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on Right Side Patriots Radio

 

….former CIA Director John Brennan did indeed brief former President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s “plan” to paint Donald Trump as a desperate man colluding with the Russians. Simply, there most certainly is more than enough evidence to go forward with both indictments and prosecutions, after all justice must be served even if said justice is forced to bring down the former occupants of both the White House and Number One Observatory Circle... 

 

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Op-ed:

Read Between the Redactions

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on Right Side Patriots Radio

 

“I think it’s a terrible thing, and I’ll say it to his face...I think it’s a disgrace. It’s an embarrassment.” So said President Trump upon hearing that the findings regarding who was at the bottom of the FBI’s 2016 Russia investigation will not be released until after the election.

It's a shameful moment for our side as Attorney General William Barr has proven himself to be not unlike former AG Jeff Sessions whose favored word was “recuse.” And all I can say is that, sadly, the hypocrisy seems to run deep within William Barr for while he's made no statement regarding Joe Biden’s veiled answer to the continuously asked question regarding Supreme Court packing...Barr has basically mimicked Biden's very response with his saying that the long awaited “Durham Investigation” findings will only be released “after the election.”

Three words we never expected to hear from someone we thought both strong of conviction and loyal to President Trump or is it simply that William Barr is like so many others holding key governmental positions...as in all talk but no action. Or could it be that William Barr is just too afraid of the sure to come reprisal from the Clinton's...reprisal because the 15-month long probe now known as the “Durham Investigation” most likely does validate President Trump’s contentions that he was “smeared as a Russian colluder” by “dirty cops” along with being smeared by Democrats in positions of power...Democrats including Hillary Clinton, Barack HUSSEIN Obama, and Joe Biden himself. And know that fear does tend at times to override one's conscience especially when the Clinton name is brought up, for we all know that those who either cross or speak out against the Clinton's have a history of suddenly committed suicide...just ask the family of Vince Foster and even the family of Jeffrey Epstein.

And with Republican leaders rightfully wanting to prosecute all guilty parties involved...that's in addition to former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith who has already said that he would plead guilty to falsifying records given to the FISA Court no matter that to date his specific case has not alleged any broader FBI conspiracy to go after Trump...still has led many key Republicans to believe that indictments and prosecutions will reach all the way up to the Obama White House. And with the fact that Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has already provided nearly 1,000 pages of material to the Justice Department to support Durham’s investigation...an investigation which includes some already having been declassified documents showing that former CIA Director John Brennan did indeed brief former President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s “plan” to paint Donald Trump as a desperate man colluding with the Russians.

Simply, there most certainly is more than enough evidence to go forward with both indictments and prosecutions, after all justice must be served even if said justice is forced to bring down the former occupants of both the White House and Number One Observatory Circle.

Besides, President Trump himself has stated more than once that, “He’s (as in William Barr) got all the information he needs. They want to get more, more, more. They keep getting more. I said, ‘You don’t need any more,” and truly they don't thus leaving one to wonder why all the invasive stall tactics.

So now I'll tell you why...because delaying the “Durham Investigation's” release, especially now after President Trump has indeed once again, “fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!”...is either yet another cover-up of sorts or more likely is that the findings are so incriminating that it could have serious constitutional ramifications regarding the Obama presidency. How so? Because already declassified information indicates that both Obama and his administration knew of allegations that Hillary Clinton was indeed attempting to tie then candidate Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin and the Russians as a means by which to distract all the prying eyes from her attention grabbing email server scandal. Also, remember that President Trump first gave the declassification authority to AG Barr back in May 2019, right after the Mueller report found no funny business going on between the president or his campaign and the Russians. But sadly, interest in these timely documents seems to have been buried as media pushed Democrat issues moved to the forefront. Impeachment anyone?

But why were these documents buried...because not only would they surely take the wind out of Joe Biden's presidential aspirations and actually open him up to being indicted, but because they would do so with evidence that would be almost impossible for him to dispute let alone deny. And said evidence includes a January 4, 2017, “note” credited to now rightfully disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok...a “note” that implicates then Vice-President Joe Biden in selecting the never-used Logan Act of 1799 as a reason to keep open an investigation of Trump's then National Security Adviser Michael Flynn...an investigation that seemingly was going nowhere...yet an investigation that while the FBI was ready to close, saw on Strzok recommendation, being kept open.

And as per a number Republicans who have conducted their own investigations into the origins of the Trump-Russia conclusion nonsense, it seems to be officials like FBI Director Christopher Wray...the man now at odds with President Trump over his having said that there has not “historically been any kind of mass voter fraud” mail or otherwise, no matter that Trump has stated mail-in voting is “vulnerable to abuse” (Trump's most assuredly right)... and CIA Director Gina Haspel who are also helping to block the release of these current documents. And said blocking is no matter that Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has already declassified certain redacted documents...documents revealing that former CIA Director John Brennan did indeed brief, via handwritten notes dated July 28, former President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s “plan” to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as a “means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server,” and do so before the 2016 election cycle got into full swing.

So what specifically was in these notes that are so damning? Written on Brennan's notes in areas not redacted (which of course encompasses most of the notes) were the words, “CITE [summarizing] alleged approved by Hillary Clinton a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service,” and that, “Any evidence of collaboration between Trump campaign + Russia,”...notes seeing redaction at this point...also included the initials “JC, Denis, and Susan” scribbled in the margins. And who most likely do these initials refer to...how about "JC" being then FBI Director James Comey, "Susan" being then National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and "Denis" being Obama's then Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, after all who else could those initials be referring to.

Now add in that when James Comey was recently asked during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee if he remembered receiving a critical inquiry from the intelligence community to look at the allegations that the Clinton campaign was trying to create a distraction plan regarding Trump being a Russian agent or a “Russian stooge,” Comey's reply was, “I don't remember.”

Simply, I don't think so for James Comey's not remembering such a critical inquiry...an inquiry which became the central touch point of both Hillary's approval of the above stated distraction plan coupled with it being the basis for the issuing of FISA warrants that were used against then Trump campaign aide Carter Page...warrants that upturned an innocent man's life...is something I guarantee James Comey remembers well...as well as his remembering that he was an integral part of the Clinton campaign and the DNC (Democratic National Committee) having secured through the law firm Perkins Coie, both Fusion GPS and ex-British M5 agent Christopher Steele. And Christopher Steele is the very man who actually authored and compiled knowingly false information for what became known as the “Steele Dossier”...the very dossier used to set the entirety of the Trump distraction plan into motion.

So where do we stand right now after William Barr...the man who once called the witch hunt against President Trump one of the “greatest travesties in American history”... announced that no public release of the Durham findings be made until after the November 3rd election? First, it's important to understand how the Attorney General's office ...how the DOJ...works in regards to the release of information. So let's start by saying that one must both understanding the intricacies of the legal system and the steps that need to be taken to complete an investigation, including that the DOJ via the attorney general, tends most times not to release information about it's findings if someone in any said investigation is not going to be criminally charged. However, and specifically regarding Durham's findings, if anyone is indeed charged as a result of Durham’s findings, the DOJ has an unwritten “60-day rule”...a rule that stresses using caution before taking major action regarding any and all politically significant cases within a short window of time before an election, especially if it could affect the election's results.

But what exactly did William Barr and the DOJ specifically task Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham with...simply with his “exploring the extent to which a number of countries, including Ukraine, played a role in the counterintelligence investigation directed at the Trump campaign during the 2016 election,” and with determining whether “intelligence collection activities by the U.S. government related to the Trump 2016 Presidential Campaign were lawful and appropriate.” But the question remains as to why if Durham's task has been completed is William Barr holding back those findings?

And the answer, I believe, is that the 15-month investigation has most probably been completed and it's findings already transcribed, but with President Trump being rightfully critical about a lack of arrests and with time running short regarding the report being released before the election brings me back to the beginning of this article where I stated that, William Barr might just be too fearful of reprisals from the Clinton's to do so. And when you add to that with Barr having already publicly expressed his frustration over Trump's tweeted comments regarding the delay in the findings release, and no matter that Barr does understand a president's authority to exercise control over federal agencies, it pains me to say that William Barr's delay in releasing what could be history changing findings might be just another case of one governmental agency covering up for the dirty deeds perpetrated by both another governmental agency as well his protecting those he truly does fear.

And might I add...dear God...for our beloved America's sake I truly hope I am wrong.

Copyright © 2020 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved. 

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Op-ed:

Jeff Sessions: Missing In Action...Again

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

While this is the beginning of my article I can safely say it's also the end of my article...an end where it becomes more than a bit apparent that as long as Jeff Sessions is attorney general, and as long as Republicans give Robert Mueller even more time to procrastinate in wrapping up his joke of a proven nonexistent Trump/Russia collusion investigation...Congress will use that as an excuse to stay unfocused and get nothing of substance done...while the mainstream media racks up ratings and advertising numbers as they continue to twist the truth into even more lies.

And while on occasion Jeff Sessions speaks out against sanctuary cities and the need to cut said cities federal funding as well as sporadically informing us that the round-up of illegals is still ongoing, there are so many other occasions where in his position as Attorney General, Sessions could have and should have done his job and brought charges against the guilty party or parties.

Remember when Obama illegally ordered spying on American citizens including all those who ran in the 2016 Republican presidential primary, I surely do. And I and so many others watched over time as said spying morphed into the media-hyped Russian dossier scandal Obama, Hillary, and crew were sure would take Trump and his presidency down. Starting off with the F.B.I. lying to the FISA courts regarding said dossier...a dossier now proven to have been funded by the Hillary campaign...with her full knowledge of course...it was also a dossier Rino John McCain personally hand delivered to the F.B.I. And he happily did so in an obvious attempt to get revenge on the man who said that he, McCain, was no war hero, and who he could not believe was actually elected president.

And dare we forget that it was former F.B.I. Director James Comey and crew who were charged with getting to the bottom of Hillary's email scandal, and who in a 'dog and pony' televised news conference actually had the gall to exonerate Hillary Clinton...exonerate her in what was actually found out later to be an exoneration James Comey himself wrote up even before he had bothered to interview Hillary regarding said scandal.

Silence on all above accounts from AG Jeff Sessions...who while not attorney general at the time of certain happenings still legally had and still has the power to bring charges, but who instead chose to recuse himself from anything even remotely involving or suspected of involving Russia...or for that matter Hillary or Obama. But what can you expect from the man who publicly stated that he wanted the Inspector General alone to look into all the above stated matters even while he knew that the Inspector General cannot prosecute anything...how convenient and 'red flagging' is that.

But then again Jeff Sessions says a whole bunch of things without his really saying or doing anything of substance. As examples of that lest we forget that Uranium One is still out there circling overhead and so is the Clinton Foundation...the first concerning Russia, Hillary, and treason; and the second concerning the buying and selling of political favors to foreign governments by the very two people whose payroll, I believe, Jeff Sessions might secretly be on. The true reason for his not prosecuting anything...perhaps.

And recently a group of Republican lawmakers...including Rep. Mark Meadows (N.C.) chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus along with two of the group's co-founders, Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Ron DeSantis (Fla.)...presented to Congress a 12-page resolution that asked for a second special counsel to probe all matters directly related to the ending of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's personal email server, the progress of the Trump/Russia investigation from its origins through the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel, and abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the warrant application process. 

In fact, Rep. Lee Zeldin (N.Y.) when announcing the resolution to the press said that, "The Justice Department cannot be expected to investigate itself," adding that AG Jeff Sessions "should tap an independent investigator to examine whether FBI and Justice Department officials obtained surveillance warrants with insufficient evidence."

Really...Jeff Sessions would never do that for the obvious reason of possibly implicating himself, and besides does anyone really believe a second investigation would bring different results than the first...it's just another waste of time and our hard earned taxpayer dollars as we and Congress already know that certain folks most definitely belong locked up in jail. 

And the fact is that AG Jeff Sessions could end this nonsense once and for all if it wasn't for his recusal getting in the way. Being just the same old nonsense but on a different day, maybe instead Congress should look into the real reason why Jeff Sessions recused himself in the first place. Perhaps I should send Congress the article The Case for Removing Jeff Sessions my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner Craig Andressen and I wrote to help aid them in doing what they know should have been done long ago...demand Jeff Sessions do his job or resign his position post-haste.

And now being thrown into the Jeff Sessions recusal mix comes the fact that President Trump recently demanded that the Department of Justice investigate whether the now disgraced F.B.I. infiltrated his presidential campaign via what he calls an “embedded informant”...an informant by the name of Stefan Halper who also sought a permanent position within the Trump administration...an informant who suddenly seems to have gone missing like so many others before him.

But to see the big picture regarding the now corrupted F.B.I. and how it ties into Sessions' inactions, one needs only to understand some basic facts, first of which is that under James Comey's directorship the F.B.I. was indeed Obama's private army of sorts...maybe not the rank-and-file agents per se but surely the hierarchy all have the stink of Obama on their hands. Doing Obama's bidding by looking away to not only protocol breached, but by actually tampering with and even destroying evidence revolving around Hillary's email scandal in order to try and assure her win...and Obama's third term in office I might add...now places the F.B.I. on its own 'wanted list.' And when you add into the mix that the Hillary campaign actually helped to fund the Steele dossier/Russian collusion nonsense the once great F.B.I. becomes but a joke that saw educated men and women suddenly and willingly choosing to play dumb especially when it came to the FISA court.

Comey's F.B.I. and those in the D.O.J. knew well the true duties and obligations of the FISA court, and yet they manipulated said duties and obligations into not only affecting domestic politics, but in setting the course said politics would take. How so...by together creating a scandal to manipulate votes against Donald Trump and in favor of Hillary Clinton...the above stated Steele dossier, charges of Russian collusion, and vote tampering nonsense was born. And that nonsense took on a life of its own and grew to the point where we now know as fact that in 2016-2017 the FISA court was “abused by intelligence officials”...aka the F.B.I...who used the phony dossier as their prime evidence  against President Trump.

And with 'We the People' knowing what we know now... courtesy of the limited information given to us in a 'throw them a bone' manner...so did AG Jeff Sessions know as well as did Barack HUSSEIN Obama for the fact is that as president, Obama was informed of all FISA court dealings and rulings as they happened. In fact, I believe, Obama is probably ground zero for this whole sorted mess...with Jeff Sessions recusing himself for one obvious reason alone...not to protect himself or his real or imaginary dealings with Russia, but to protect Obama alone.

Are the pieces of the puzzle coming together for you yet?

Remember, all these shenanigans boil down to one thing...a not so hidden 'Deep State' attempt to try and negate the 2016 election results. Removing President Trump from office, through impeachment if need be, and to install Hillary Clinton as president was and still is their main goal no matter that Hillary is a drunken, America-hating, socialist spouting, U.N. controlled, islamist-condoning puppet-on-a-string...albeit one with the all-important D after her name.

I guess the plotters and planners truly forgot that even if Trump was indeed somehow impeached Hillary Clinton would still not even be on the presidential succession list as V.P. Mike Pence would now head said list.

But again, Jeff Sessions knows this all and still sat mum on the sidelines. And why am I so sure of all I just said... said even beyond what was exposed in Craig and my previously stated article...why...because Jeff Sessions did not request to be in yesterday's meeting Chief of Staff John Kelly was tasked with brokering...the all-important Trump called for meeting between congressional leaders and the F.B.I., the D.O.J., and the office of the Director of National Intelligence. And really why wouldn't Jeff Sessions in his capacity as attorney general not want to be there...to be there if only to garner first hand information to help him set up a case against any and all guilty parties...that's in his job description after all...leading me to believe this has to do not just with his recusal from all things Russian connected, but because of the actual act of recusal itself.

And this, again I believe, has possibly led some in high places to now consider that Jeff Sessions just might be the White House leaker. Remember, some of the leaks have stopped since islamic-condoner and now former National Security Advisor Gen. H.R. McMaster has been gone...some...but not all.

But even if the above stated is proven to be true, a hero of sorts has entered the picture as Rep. Trey Gowdy (S.C.)...the House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman...has taken a special interest in the F.B.I.'s mishandling of the entirety of the Russian investigation. And Gowdy's interest peeked after earlier this month he met with some members of the Department of Justice to go over their role in now exposed F.B.I.-FISA abuses.

And so at 12 noon yesterday the first of two meetings regarding what has become known as "Skygate" took place...sans Jeff Sessions of course...at Department of Justice headquarters. Present were White House Chief of Staff John Kelly; White House Council Emmett T. Flood, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein; F.B.I. Director Christopher Wray; Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats; House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes...who also accused the FBI of planting an "informant" (a spy) within the Trump campaign...and above stated House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Trey Gowdy. And at the very last minute Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, was included in said meeting after leading Democrats accused Nunes and Gowdy of holding a partisan meeting that "could be weaponized" against the D.O.J. and even against Robert Mueller himself.

So what was the outcome of this first meeting...simply a lot of whining that the president's council attended said meeting. But really why shouldn't he be there to protect President Trump's interests, after all tensions between the White House and Sessions' Department of Justice are at an all time high what with the Russian investigation being nothing but a witch hunt, blatant F.B.I. improprieties more than bordering on the criminal, and the now come to light accusations of a spy being placed by said F.B.I. within the Trump campaign.

The second meeting at 2pm...again sans Jeff Sessions... was called for after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer whined that no Democrats were invited to Kelly's first meeting even though Mark Warner...the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee...was asked to attend but declined. This meeting was attended by a select bipartisan group of lawmakers with whom the government’s most sensitive intelligence is shared...a group referred to as the 'Gang of 8'...also saw John Kelly, Rod Rosenstein, Christopher Wray, Dan Coats, and Trey Gowdy in attendance...with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and former decliner Sen. Mark Warner there as well.

And while there is a 'gag order' of sorts against disclosing what was said at this second meeting as well as what was said at the first, you just know the supposed F.B.I. informer Stefan Halper was a key point of discussion. And we all know that over the next few days information will surely leak out as it has done so many times in the past.

And so what I said at the beginning of my article holds just as true at the end for AG Jeff Sessions' silence and absences in regards to both meetings and all the things stated above is the direct cause of everything getting out of hand. If Jeff Sessions had not recused himself...if he had done his job as America's chief law enforcement official...the guilty would now be in jail awaiting their court dates, and an innocent man would finally be totally free to do the job 'We the People' elected him to do...unencumbered by shear nonsense hanging over his head. 

And oh yes...I hope President Trump fires Jeff Sessions now.

Copyright @ 2018 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved. 
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Op-ed:

The Fix is In

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

“Do I think [she committed a crime]? Yes, I think...It’s such an important story for our country and the world. It is one of the big stories of our time.”   

- President Trump on Susan Rice being exposed as one of the key players in the wiretap scandal

A key player for sure for what was Susan Rice but a bought and paid for political operative working on behalf of the Obama administration. Now exposed as the person responsible for the 'unmasking' of President Trump’s transition team, this was found out after the White House Counsel's office reviewed her document log requests. But know that in no way did this woman devise this wiretapping scenario on her own for Susan Rice is neither smart enough nor powerful enough to pull off this scope of targeted wiretapping without help and instructions.

And when you dismiss the currently circulating possibilities that maybe she was acting in connection with a joint investigation into Russian interference into the election or that she was simply seeking insight about foreign governments, what is left is the more likely scenario that Susan Rice was conducting the kind of political espionage President Trump has alleged all along, and did so on the behest of her boss Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

And to that likely affect, this past Monday, Senator Rand Paul called for Susan Rice...Obama’s last National Security Advisor...to testify under oath...believing as do I that Obama himself might have ordered her to “unmask” Trump officials for “unspecified purposes”...actually for political purposes as in to bring the Trump administration down before it even began if truth be told. And then on Tuesday, Susan Rice herself admitted that she had asked for U.S. citizens to be “unmasked” on several occasions while hemming and hawing about whether any of those persons were on Trump’s transition team. And of course she vehemently insisted that she had done nothing wrong.

“The allegations that somehow Obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes are absolutely false...unmasking] is necessary to do my job...imagine if we saw something of grave significance about Russia, or China, or anybody else interfering with our political process,” were Susan Rice’s exact words...words based upon lies but then again words coming from the mouth of the ‘Liar of Benghazi’...words basically trying to insert into the discourse the Democrats nonsense that Russia ‘fixed’ the election so Hillary would lose...done so she could justify her what I and others truly believe to be criminal actions.

Saying that she was asked by the intelligence community to turn over the names of those in the Trump transition team who had been ‘caught,’ if you will, speaking via phone to or meeting in person with foreign officials under surveillance...and it was here that General Flynn was named...but what Susan Rice is not saying is that while these names...civilian names...are usually redacted in transcripts that high-level government officials can and do 'request' through a process called ‘unmasking.’ And what is ‘unmasking’ exactly...simply it is the identifying of those whose communications and conversations were inadvertently caught during a coordinated effort of intelligence gathering even though those persons were not the subject of a search warrant.

Now as for Susan Rice’s specific 'requests'...'requests' that are kept under ”tightly-controlled conditions”...these 'requests' are what exposed her actions. It must also be noted that each person requesting such information has to log-in by signing their name before being granted access to requested information, and it is important to know that Susan Rice was one of but three people (with the other two being CIA Director John Brennan and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch) that Obama gave permission “to request and consume unmasked NSA-based intelligence reports about U.S. citizens.”

And when this past February during a routine review of requests, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the National Security Council’s Senior Director for Intelligence, discovered that Susan Rice, on dozens of occasions, filed 'requests' for the identities of persons in ‘raw intelligence reports’... persons whose monitored conversations were between Trump associates and foreign officials who discussed then-president-elect Trump’s transition...conversations that were collected ‘incidentally’ without said persons being the targets of specific electronic eavesdropping and whose identities instead of being redacted became known. And this led Cohen-Watnick to (rightfully) bring all this to the attention of the White House General Counsel’s office, who in turn reviewed more of Rice’s requests and instructed Cohen-Watnick to end his own research into the ‘unmasking policy’ and that they would handle it from there on out as the information garnered included 'sensitive information' about not only who the president’s associates were meeting, but their views on foreign policy issues, and further transition plans. as well

And then when National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster was informed of these goings on he sent his aide, one Derek Harvey, to Capitol Hill to brief Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes on these findings...and the rest is history as they say.

But now that we know the wiretapping on President Trump did indeed happen and that it involved Obama’s flunky Susan Rice, the questions remaining become what if any hand did Barack HUSSEIN Obama have in this, what if any crime did Susan Rice commit, and if a crime was indeed committed and if Obama was involved...as I and others suspect...what should their punishments be?

So did the woman who said “I leaked nothing to nobody and never have and never would” commit any crime...I say ‘yes.' And that crime starts with what she does best...lie. But why lie if Susan Rice felt she did nothing wrong...why lie if there was nothing to cover up... why...because Susan Rice was instructed to make a crime far worse than Watergate go away. And while that lie might not involve how the information was collected it does involve the hows and the whys it was publicly disseminated.

And just like with Benghazi Rice's lies started with her appearance last month on yet another talk show, this time on the 'PBS NewsHour' where she was asked about reports that Trump and his transition officials were "swept up in" an incidental intelligence collection concerning possible Russian interference with the election. And Rice’s response, "I know nothing about this...I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that account today."

Liar...for like I said earlier, this past Tuesday, Susan Rice admitted that she asked for U.S. citizens to be ‘unmasked’ and that nothing she did was for political purposes, which again is a lie...a lie told to deliberately create controversy and questions involving the Trump team, and to delegitimize the Trump presidency in any and every way possible even before he was sworn into office.

So, was the monitoring of Trump’s campaign and his transition team and then doing nothing to safeguard their identities as per the law paramount to spying as some say?  To answer that it is first important to remember that while government surveillance of U.S. citizens is indeed constrained by statute and the Constitution, spying on foreigners... including diplomats...is permitted as per the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) which allows so-called ‘secret courts’ to issue surveillance warrants for non-Americans. 

But with Obama having given Susan Rice permission to request the names of Americans picked up in such surveillance, especially when it is being claimed that there was a “compelling national security” reason to do so (as in the Democrats still unproven claim that Russia interfered with our election) some say that disclosing the names of transition officials who were caught up in legal wiretaps of foreigners is not the same thing as illegally spying on the Trump campaign. 

And with some legal experts saying that the standard for senior officials to learn the names of U.S. persons ‘incidentally’ collected is that it must have some foreign intelligence value, a standard that can apply to almost anything, which Rice has now used to defend her actions; and with others like Susan Hennessey, a former attorney for the National Security Agency and current Brookings Institution fellow, saying that they believe there would have been “nothing worrisome” about Rice asking for the names of Trump officials to be unmasked while in her post as the Obama administration’s top national security official....others are saying that while Susan Rice’s actions did indeed if not break the law did cross over into very dangerous ground because as per the law the redacted names...'classified names’...were never supposed to be released and they deliberately were.

In fact, John R. Schindler, a conservative columnist for the 'New York Observer' and a former NSA analyst with deeply placed ‘sources’ in the intelligence community, wrote that "Rice had perfectly legitimate reasons to want to know the full story about those reports"...meaning intelligence reports tracking foreign-government officials discussing Trump or talking to Trump associates....but that Rice was a "deeply unpopular figure" in the intelligence community. "Rice didn't like to play by the rules, including the top-secret ones," he wrote in the New York Observer. "On multiple occasions, she asked the NSA to do things they regarded as unethical and perhaps illegal. When she was turned down, the NSA fears breaking laws for any White House, since they know they will be left holding the bag in the end, Rice kept pushing."

So, while Susan Rice might technically not have done anything legally wrong in asking for redacted names to be ‘unmasked’ in reports involving Trump and his people, she did do something wrong...very wrong...when instead of keeping those should be ‘classified names’ to herself she released them in an effort to not only play politics with said ‘classified names,’ but to also keep the lie going that Russia had tried to influence the 2016 presidential election. 

And what is the punished for leaking classified information whether it be something as simple as ‘classified names’...as per 18 U.S. Code § 798 - Disclosure of Classified Information...”Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information...Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”

So now as we wait and see if anyone has the courage to charge her with anything... especially since both the gender and race cards are now being thrown out by the media in that this attack on Susan Rice is only happening because she is a woman and a black woman to boot...more lies of course...we need to know what role exactly did Barack HUSSEIN Obama play in all this...and know that his hand is all over it as he on so many occasions made public statements to the effect that he would be keeping his eye on now President Trump and calling him to task for anything he did not agree with him on.

And let’s be honest here...Obama was more than a bit angry that Hillary Clinton did not get the chance to finish off his ‘fundamental change of America’ as he and his fellow leftist Democrats counted on her doing. So what better way to funnel that anger than do a bit of payback by any means possible and using any conduit possible.

And so enter center stage Susan Rice who in her capacity as National Security Advisor became Obama’s conduit of choice. And what better proof of that is there than her lies, her alludings, her declining to say whether she personally saw intelligence on Trump's associates or whether she asked for their identities (which the log rolls show she did), along with the fact that neither she nor her Democrat cohorts have said a word defending “We the People’s right to privacy in such surveillance sweeps...right’s assured us by law...right’s she as National Security Advisor should have been screaming for loud and clear.

So with us now knowing that Susan Rice was indeed the 'front man' behind the wiretapping of President Trump, it also must be know that even if she is called to testify that she will invoke ‘the 5th’ no matter what question is asked. And why...because Susan Rice will go 'missing' or worse if she were to squeal even to save her own butt. And besides, the national security excuse is already in place and being shoved down our throats by the media...the fix and the cover-up of the whole sorted mess is firmly in place...just saying.

Copyright © 2017 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor 

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