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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 Trumps transition team members mentioned in intelligence briefings, asking: "What if Dick Cheney had asked for the unmasking of names for Barack Obamas 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 Obamas 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!
spanone
(135,830 posts)he wasn't.
brush
(53,773 posts)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.
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)What if Joe wasn't such an ignorant Douchebag?
NewRedDawn
(790 posts)2 words for ya: Valerie Plame.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)This is a woman exposing a god.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)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.
JDC
(10,127 posts)F Joe
Vinca
(50,269 posts)Scarborough's back and forth about Dear Leader - love him, hate him, love him, hate him - is getting tiresome.
Zo Zig
(600 posts)Unmasking, seriously?
I guess Joe forgot that one?