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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Trump may have been elected, but he was not President. That means it is the duty of the President in charge to look at the intelligence related to the national security problem. That's what Rice did - her job. She examined the intelligence and shared it in a classified setting with other parts of the government so they are aware of the situation - no charges were brought, no attempt to roll back the election results, just situational awareness. 
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And, there must have been no evidence of collusion--because, had there been, you can be sure the Obama White House would have assured that we know it.

This was a political decision on her part--just look at the evidence of her lies in the past.  Do you really think she believed it was a spontaneous demonstration over a video?  That was a lie for political sake.  There are other examples at the midterm election that she withheld information for political purposes.  And, just look at the elimination of chemical weapons in Syria.

I don't like at all that the Russians hacked or released private information--but what was released was partly a result of the arrogance of the DNC and Podesta that they did not realize that NOTHING is private.[/quote]

OMG, you fool. If the Obama White House had unmasked Trump and started waving classified intelligence around saying that Trump colluded with the Russians, then that would be a political play. But they didn't. Instead, the Obama White House did what they should - they turned the matter over to the FBI for investigation. It's the FBI's job (not the White House) to run such investigations. That investigation is ongoing because - surprise - sensitive and complex political investigations take time. If the FBI finds no collusion, they will say so, and they are much more trustworthy than the White House.

Rice didn't leak anything - [b]the Trump White House leaked classified information to Nunes, and Nunes leaked to the press to cover for the President's wild accusations.[/b] So who's being political?

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Do you have a link for that bolded statement?
And, you are correct - the FBI should be doing the investigation.  So, why did an Obama appointee, Susan Rice, conduct her own little private investigation?  Why was it SHE who unmasked these folks?  [/quote]

For someone with a lot of opinions, you sure aren't paying attention. There are loads of articles answering your questions.

Here's a link on Nunes: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/devin-nunes-intelligence-reports.html

Here's a link on the legal procedure for unmasking: http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/homeland-security/327202-rice-was-within-legal-rights-to-unmask-trump-associates

I feel like you'll need to read each article three times to break through your ideological programming. It might help your objectivity if you replace the words "Obama" with "Trump," "Rice" with "McMaster," "Trump" with "Clinton," and "Nunes" with "Schiff." Just imagine how you'd react if the parties were reversed.

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Yeah, I’ve read this NY Times story.  But, it is not correct.  The story changed the next day.  Did the NY Times print an updated story?  Of course not.

[quote]Nunes has known about the unmasking controversy since January, when two sources in the intelligence community approached him. The sources told Nunes who was responsible and at least one of the Trump team names that was unmasked. They also gave him serial numbers of reports that documented the activity.

This was long before Trump sent out his now-infamous March 4 tweets claiming then-President Barack Obama “wiretapped” Trump Tower during the 2016 election.

Nunes had asked intelligence agencies to see the reports in question, but was stonewalled.

He eventually was able to view them, but there was only one safe place to see the documents without compromising the sources’ identities -- the old executive office building on White House grounds, which has a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) required to view classified or top secret reports. The White House did not tell Nunes about the existence of the intelligence reports, but did help him gain access to the documents at his request, the source said.[/quote]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/31/intelligence-official-who-unmasked-trump-associates-is-very-high-up-source-says.html

White House officials gave him access to the documents.  They did not “leak” anything.  Nunes has a clearance. 
Sources in the IC initially told him about the surveillance.  [/quote]

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