POSTED ON APRIL 3, 2017 BY JOHN HINDERAKER
SUSAN RICE IN CROSSHAIRS AS POTENTIAL FELON
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Lake notes that Rice’s requesting raw intelligence in which Trump associates figured might not be illegal:
The standard for senior officials to learn the names of U.S. persons incidentally collected is that it must have some foreign intelligence value, a standard that can apply to almost anything. This suggests Rice’s unmasking requests were likely within the law.
That strikes me as a generous interpretation. In any event, if Rice and others conspired to leak confidential information or publicly disclose information about individuals like General Flynn, it would be a crime.
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Kurt Schlichter’s piece at Townhall: “The Russiagate Scam Will Blow Up In The Democrats’ Smug Faces.”
Does anyone here think for a millisecond that the Obama-appointed leadership in the intelligence community, whose loyalty is to their own political class and not to the country, would hesitate for a microsecond before leaking something they thought would hurt Trump? Weknowthey wouldn’t hesitate because theydidn’thesitate – they feloniously released a classified transcript involving Mike Flynn just to shaft him and the Administration.