BOOM: Susan Rice says she unmasked some Trump people WHEN THEY WERE MAKING A BACKCHANNEL TO PUTIN

[MelissaB]

Rice told House investigators why she unmasked senior Trump officials

Washington (CNN)Former national security adviser Susan Rice privately told House investigators that she unmasked the identities of senior Trump officials to understand why the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates was in New York late last year, multiple sources told CNN.

The New York meeting preceded a separate effort by the UAE to facilitate a back-channel communication between Russia and the incoming Trump White House.

The crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, arrived in New York last December in the transition period before Trump was sworn into office for a meeting with several top Trump officials, including Michael Flynn, the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his top strategist Steve Bannon, sources said.

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But the Trump Tower meeting came shortly before the UAE brokered a meeting to open lines of communications with the United States and Russia, with a clandestine January meeting in the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean, according to reports in CNN and The Washington Post. That meeting is now under investigation on Capitol Hill, though it's unclear whether Rice mentioned the Seychelles meeting in the testimony.

More: http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/13/politics/susan-rice-house-investigators-unmasked-trump-officials/index.html

[GoCubsGo]

1. Well, that explains a lot.

Like why the Rotting Halloween Pumpkin and his crime syndicate are still insisting that Rice be investigated.

[underpants]

2. Susan Rice to replace the day long attacks on Stevie Wonder Beyonc and Kanye West

BUT.....

Trust me RW world will probably not hear this


"I didn't hear anything to believe that she did anything illegal," Florida Rep. Tom Rooney, a Republican helping to lead the panel's Russia invesigation, told CNN of Rice's testimony. He declined to discuss any of the contents of her classified remarks.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican who is helping lead the House investigation, told the Daily Caller "nothing that came up in her interview that led me to conclude" that she improperly unmasked the names of Trump associates or leaked it to the press.

"She was a good witness, answered all our questions," Rep. Mike Conaway, the Texas Republican now running the House Russia probe, told CNN. "I'm not aware of any reason to bring her back."

[Docreed2003]

3. Aaaaaaand.....

[Nictuku]

4. Erik Prince (founder of Blackwater) was at that Seychelles meeting also

Erik Prince (founder of Blackwater) was at that Seychelles meeting also. You know, Betsy DeVoss's brother?

[tanyev]

5. Also, the DeVos company Spectrum Health is part of the Trump Tower/Alfa Bank computer three-way.

From May 4 until September 23, the Russian bank looked up the address to this Trump corporate server 2,820 times -- more lookups than the Trump server received from any other source.

As noted, Alfa Bank alone represents 80% of the lookups, according to these leaked internet records.

Far back in second place, with 714 such lookups, was a company called Spectrum Health.

Spectrum is a medical facility chain led by Dick DeVos, the husband of Betsy DeVos, who was appointed by Trump as U.S. education secretary.

Together, Alfa and Spectrum accounted for 99% of the lookups.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/09/politics/fbi-investigation-continues-into-odd-computer-link-between-russian-bank-and-trump-organization/

[kentuck]

6. 99% huh?

I wonder who the hundredth caller was??

[MelissaB]

7. Daddy Putin?

[MelissaB]

8. Buried in Susan Rice story: Steve Bannon was in meeting where Russian backchannel was attempted to b

Buried in Susan Rice story: Steve Bannon was in meeting where Russian backchannel was attempted to be setup-welcome Bannon to #TrumpRussia

Link to tweet

[MelissaB]

9. Eric Garland says *If they were unmasking, it's because they have SIGINT of the meeting itself.*

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[haveahart]

10. The GOP will let her alone now because they know they have a lying, treasonous, poorly educated,

p***Y grabber sitting in the WH surrounded by a boatload of ill-prepared, unfit, corrupt, and treasonous family members and staff and advisors.
They aren't prepared to go there because of their own connections to the treason and corruption.

[spanone]

11. ...and that was her job!

[SunSeeker]

12. BOOM!

(The sound of Trump's manufactured unmasking scandal backfiring.)

[toddwv]

13. Interesting.

How do they know these were standard DNS requests/responses?

It's technically possible to send other data using a packet made to look like DNS protocol. As long as the client and server know how to transmit and re-assemble the packets. A packet sniffer would make it pretty apparent that it wasn't a true DNS request and response but it would be a good way to transmit encrypted data with raising too many flags and would likely be brushed off as "just a DNS request".

With a 512byte limit on standard DNS Query payloads, you could fit 12mBs of data total in the exchange. There are also larger exchanges possible like domain xfers

An easier way would be to set up DNS records themselves to just send messages, even encrypted text messages, by creating records like "this.is.my.unencrypted.text.message.to.you" -> 192.168.156.126. In this case, if that IP address I ping 192.168.156.126.1 I get this.is.my.unencrypted.text.message.to.you.

[NewJeffCT]

14. Look for more attacks on Rice to come

another smart, capable woman unfairly smeared by the RW and their allies in the media.

[StevieM]

15. They have been attacking her for years with their lies about Benghazi. (eom)

[oasis]

16. Ha! Right back at ya. The balls in your court now "investigators".

[NastyRiffraff]

17. I feel SO sorry for poor Trey Gowdy

By sorry, I mean "take THAT you fucking creep!"