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ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 12:36 PM Apr 2017

Scarborough on Susan Rice: What if Cheney had asked for unmasking?

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Tuesday suggested some people are holding former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice to a different standard than they would have held the George W. Bush administration.

The “Morning Joe” host questioned those dismissing reports that Rice sought to unmask President Trump’s transition team members mentioned in intelligence briefings, asking: "What if Dick Cheney had asked for the unmasking of names for Barack Obama’s incoming administration?”

"This Bloomberg report says that one official familiar with reports say they contained valuable political information, not intel, but valuable political information on what the Trump transition team was doing, including who Trump was meeting, who the Trump team was meeting, what the views were of Trump associates on foreign policy matters and plans for the incoming administration," Scarborough said.

"If that report is accurate, it begs a lot of questions about what was going on. And people who want to dismiss it as routine, I think, are uncurious," NBC political analyst Mark Halperin responded.

Scarborough raised a hypothetical scenario of the Bush administration doing the same thing during Obama’s transition.

link:http://origin-nyi.thehill.com/media/327177-scarborough-on-susan-rice-what-if-cheney-had-asked-for-unmasking

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And there it is, the double blaming of Obama for their own scandal. Obama ordered it, and Obama would have been outraged if it had happened to him. Except it didn't, and Rice did nothing wrong. Posters in the comments section are calling it felony!

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Scarborough on Susan Rice: What if Cheney had asked for unmasking? (Original Post) ProudLib72 Apr 2017 OP
well joe, if cheney we're the nsa, he could have got them unmasked if he needed them spanone Apr 2017 #1
Exactly. She was doing her job as NSA. If she didn't try to find out who was ... brush Apr 2017 #4
the more important question.... rufus dog Apr 2017 #2
Joey, Joey. NewRedDawn Apr 2017 #3
That was a man exposing a woman ProudLib72 Apr 2017 #6
First, it's not true. Second, what "valuable information"? SunSeeker Apr 2017 #5
Well Joe, why not ask Valerie Plame what she thinks... JDC Apr 2017 #7
Cheney probably did ask for unmasking. Vinca Apr 2017 #8
Valarie Plame Zo Zig Apr 2017 #9
For Real! kentuck Apr 2017 #10

brush

(53,773 posts)
4. Exactly. She was doing her job as NSA. If she didn't try to find out who was ...
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 12:47 PM
Apr 2017

caught up in intel monitered conversations with Russian operatives they'd then say she was guilty of dereliction of duty.

Her title was National Security Advisor and she was looking out for national security.

Scarborough and Mika yesterday were lambasting trump now today they're falling in line with his "Obama spied on me" deflection campaign away from the Russian collusion investigation.

They are showing themselves to be nothing but weather vanes. Which ever way the story goes they jump on the latest bandwagon.

SunSeeker

(51,550 posts)
5. First, it's not true. Second, what "valuable information"?
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 12:49 PM
Apr 2017

What would have been the point? Trump had already become president.

As Susan Rice just said, she did not ask that Trump campaign people be unmasked. She never requested that Anericans be unmasked for political reasons.


But these Trump administration allegations, even if they are true, do nothing to substantiate Trump's outragious tweeted lie that Obama wiretapped Trump at Trump Tower after the election.

This whole fake controversy is about deflecting from the very real scandal of Trump's treasonous collusion with Russia to subvert our democratic process.

Vinca

(50,269 posts)
8. Cheney probably did ask for unmasking.
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 01:50 PM
Apr 2017

Scarborough's back and forth about Dear Leader - love him, hate him, love him, hate him - is getting tiresome.

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