It was impossible for Susan Rices unmasking to be directed at Trump

[deminks]

http://americablog.com/2017/04/impossible-susan-rice-unmasking-directed-trump.html

(snip)

Unmasking is the process by which Rice, for example, would have to ask the NSA to reveal the name of the American to her, and to her only. And Rice can’t just ask for it, she has to have a good argument as to why she needs the name in order to better understand the intelligence. And even then, if the NSA isn’t satisfied with her argument, they won’t release the name.

So, there is no way that Susan Rice’s unmasking of this intelligence could have been political because Rice would have had no way of knowing that “American Citizen A” was anyone associated with Donald Trump. She wouldn’t know who they were until AFTER she asked that the information was unmasked, and after the NSA agreed to the unmasking. So there is simply no way she could have done the unmasking in order to politically hurt Donald Trump.

The entire unmasking argument is a red herring.

(end snip)

It doesn't matter how many times she asked or when she asked or anything about her asking. I suspect Trumpinistas found some requests or were shown some requests or figured out heh that is what you do to get names and built a nothingburger story around those.

[forgotmylogin]

1. If she knew who it was beforehand, why ask to unmask them?

[Lucinda]

2. TY KNR

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Mike Cernovich. That's the guy who's pushing the story.

He's the guy behind "Pizzagate."