OPINION
The scale to which Obama’s team spied on his successor should be focus of ‘unmasking’
By Lee Smith
May 13, 2020 | 7:23pm | Updated
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The presumptive Democratic candidate for president, Joe Biden, heads a list of more than a dozen Obama officials who spied on Donald Trump’s ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Others senior officials include chief of staff Denis McDonough, CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and UN Ambassador Samantha Power.
A list declassified Tuesday by Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grennel shows that Biden and others asked to have Flynn’s name “unmasked” in transcripts of US intelligence intercepts of foreign officials. The names of US persons or entities incidentally collected by such intercepts are minimized to protect the privacy rights of Americans. Unmasking identities is not in itself illegal, nor even necessarily improper. Occasionally US policymakers will ask to unmask a US person to better understand the nature of the intelligence before them. Obama officials, however, gorged themselves like children at a candy store.
In an almost two-month period starting election day, Nov. 8, 2016, senior US officials made 49 requests to unmask the retired three-star general.
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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2020/05/13/the-scale-to-which-obamas-team-spied-should-be-focus-of-unmasking/
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Nearly three years ago, then-chair of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes held a brief press conference to announce that he’d found evidence of wide-scale unmasking of Trump officials, some of which is what the DNI apparently declassified Tuesday. Nunes explained that “none of this surveillance was related to Russia, or the investigation of Russian activities.”
His statement now comes into clearer focus — this was about Obama’s massive surveillance of his political opponents. The list published Tuesday is evidence that the heir to that legacy is Joe Biden.
Lee Smith is author of the bestselling book “The Plot Against the President.”
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