Unmasking The Unmaskers: Biden, Brennan, Clapper, & Powers Named In DNI Just-Released List

A list of Obama administration officials who participated in the 'unmasking' of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has been released by Sens. Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley. The names include former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former Vice President Joe Biden.

The revelation comes after Biden was caught trying to lie about his knowledge of the Flynn investigation during a Tuesday morning interview - changing course after host George Stephanopoulos pointed out his documented attendance at a January 5 Oval Office meeting in which key members of the Obama administration discussed the ongoing investigation into Flynn's intercepted contacts with the Russian ambassador.

Notably, Obama asked Comey to conceal the FBI's investigation from the incoming administration.

As we have previously noted, "unmasking" is a term used when the identity of a U.S. citizen or lawful resident is revealed in classified intelligence reports. Normally, when government officials receive intelligence reports, the names of American citizens are redacted to protect their privacy. But officials can request that names, listed as "U.S. Person 1," for example, be unmasked internally in order to give context about the potential value of the intelligence. Unmasking is justified for national security reasons but is governed by strict rules across the U.S. intelligence apparatus that make it illegal to pursue for political reasons or to leak classified information generated by the process.

Last week, Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell visited the Justice Department with the list of unmaskers, which the DOJ effectively said was up to him to release, according to a Fox News report.

After Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice was outed as the ringleader of an unmasking campaign, the Wall Street Journal reported that she wasn't the only administration official to participate in Flynn's unmasking.

The new disclosure comes after the FBI was revealed to have attempted to ensnare Flynn in a perjury trap, despite the agency's own DC field office suggesting that the case be closed.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/unmasking-unmaskers-biden-brennan-clapper-powers-named-dni-grenell-list

2020 Democrat Nominee Joe Biden Unmasked General Flynn!

Acting DNI Richard Grenell declassified the list of Obama officials involved in the unmasking of General Mike Flynn in his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

CBS reporter Catherine Herridge obtained the list of Obama operatives who unmasked General Flynn.

Names include former CIA Director John Brennan, Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power and former DNI chief James Clapper.

The last name on the list is Joe Biden!

Biden on Tuesday morning claimed he knew “nothing” about the plot to target General Flynn during his appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

However, Biden backtracked after GMA host George Stephanopoulos reminded him that he was in the secret Oval Office meeting on January 5, 2017 when Barack Obama discussed the Flynn-Kislyak phone calls and potential Logan Act charge.

Biden let out a very audible sigh as Stephanopoulos began to ask him about Obamagate, the targeting of General Flynn and his knowledge/involvement.

“So, what did you know about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn, and was anything improper done?” Stephanopoulos asked Biden.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/breaking-2020-democrat-nominee-joe-biden-unmasked-general-flynn/

PA Health Secretary Moved Mother Out Of Personal Care Home After Ordering Nursing Homes To Accept COVID Patients

Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine’s mother moved out of a personal care home with the health secretary’s help, after Levine ordered all nursing homes and long-term facilities in the state to accept coronavirus patients from hospitals.

Levine admitted Tuesday to moving the 95-year-old Pennsylvania resident out of her personal care home, which is similar to an assisted living facility although technically distinct.

“My mother requested, and my sister and I as her children complied to move her to another location during the COVID-19 outbreak,” Levine said. The health secretary’s admission came after local station ABC27 found out about the move.

“My mother is 95 years old. She is very intelligent and more than competent to make her own decisions,” said Levine, who in 2015 became the first transgender cabinet member in Pennsylvania’s state government.

Levine had previously cited the mother’s situation at a long-term care facility while talking about state regulations of those types of facilities. (RELATED: Check Out All These Mayors Who Broke The Same Social Distancing Rules They Demanded Others Obey)

“We are seeing community spread of this virus in most areas of Pennsylvania. And we need to make sure that our loved ones in nursing homes stay safe. And that is why actually I am not able to visit my mother, either,” Levine said on March 29.

That was 11 days after the health secretary ordered nursing homes and other long-term facilities to continue admitting new patients and re-admitting current patients from the hospital, despite concerns about the elderly population’s vulnerability to the virus.

“This may include stable patients who have had the COVID-19 virus,” the department acknowledged while explaining the order.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/13/coronavirus-pennsylvania-rachel-levine-mother-nursing-home/

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FBI Accidentally Releases Name of Saudi Official Involved in 9/11 Attacks

A court filing in the suit filed by the victims of the 9/11 attacks has accidentally revealed the name of the Saudi Arabian embassy official that the FBI believes directed at least two of the hijackers.

Mussaed Ahmed al-Jarrah, a mid-level foreign ministry official assigned to the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington, D.C., was inadvertently identified in a filing by Jill Sanborn, the assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, as the Saudi national who assisted two of the hijackers.

The Turkish daily Anadolu Agency gives some background on al-Jarrah.

He was in charge of supervising the activities of Ministry of Islamic Affairs employees at Saudi-funded mosques and Islamic centers in the US, according to the report.

The authorities believe that Al-Jarrah instructed two people — Fahad al-Thumairy, a cleric, and Omar al-Bayoumi, a suspected Saudi agent — to help two of the hijackers settle in the US in January 2000 ahead of the attacks.

Al-Jarrah’s whereabouts remain unknown, but he is believed to be in Saudi Arabia.

After years of frustration, the families of 9/11 victims were finally given the go-ahead by the courts in 2018 to sue Saudi Arabia for complicity in the attacks. Ever since then, the Trump administration has been stonewalling the families as far as releasing key documents that would assist them in their suit.

Last September, the FBI was forced to reveal al-Jarrah’s name to the families under a strict non-disclosure agreement. But the FBI’s goof in publishing his name gives a boost to the family’s case.

Sanborn’s filing had blacked out al-Jarrah’s name in most places — except one.

Yahoo News:

“This shows there is a complete government cover-up of the Saudi involvement,” said Brett Eagleson, a spokesman for the 9/11 families whose father was killed in the attacks. “It demonstrates there was a hierarchy of command that’s coming from the Saudi Embassy to the Ministry of Islamic Affairs [in Los Angeles] to the hijackers.”

Still, Eagleson acknowledged he was flabbergasted by the bureau’s slip-up in identifying the Saudi Embassy official in a public filing. Although Justice Department lawyers had last September notified lawyers for the 9/11 families of the official’s identity, they had done so under a protective order that forbade the family members from publicly disclosing it.

Naturally, the Saudis have been putting enormous pressure on the last three administrations to keep their involvement in the attacks secret. Any confirmation that a Saudi government official was involved in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history would lead to repercussions far beyond the difficulties the Saudi government experienced following the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. It would severely damage relations between the two nations and Saudi Arabia’s reputation would take a huge hit. It won’t make the Trump administration look very good either.

The U.S.-Saudi relationship is the linchpin to our strategic position in the Middle East. Washington isn’t kidding when they claim the national security of the United States is at stake if the information is divulged. As much as Trump likes the Saudis and leans on them to act as our proxy in the region, that relationship would be impossible to maintain going forward.

You have to wonder what other information the FBI has that would finger higher-ups in the Saudi government. They helped create Osama bin-Laden in the 1980s. They nurtured al-Qaeda in its early days. It wasn’t until bin Laden threatened the Saudi royal family that they woke up to the monster they had created.

Now, they deserve to reap the whirlwind.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/05/13/fbi-accidentally-releases-name-of-saudi-official-involved-in-9-11-attacks-n390364

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Schiff ‘Knew All Along’ That There Was No Proof Of Russia-Trump Collusion

“Newly released Congressional testimony shows that Adam Schiff spread falsehoods shamelessly about Russia and Donald Trump for three years even as his own committee gathered contrary evidence.”

That’s how the Wall Street Journal editorial board sees it, penning a piece on Wednesday that absolutely eviscerates the California Democrat who has led a one-man war against President Trump.

The WSJ combed through 57 transcripts of interviews released last week by the House Intelligence Committee, all involving the so-called Reussian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The committee, now headed by Schiff, began its probe in January 2017 and ended it in March 2018 — with a final finding that there was no evidence the Trump campaign conspired with Russia. Schiff refused to release the transcripts after he became chairman in 2019.

“Now we know why,” the WSJ ed board said.

From the earliest days of the collusion narrative, Mr. Schiff insisted that he had evidence proving the plot. In March 2017 on MSNBC, Mr. Schiff teased that he couldn’t “go into particulars, but there is more than circumstantial evidence now.”

In December 2017 he told CNN that collusion was a fact: “The Russians offered help, the campaign accepted help. The Russians gave help and the President made full use of that help.” In April 2018, Mr. Schiff released his response to Mr. Nunes’s report, stating that its finding of no collusion “was unsupported by the facts and the investigative record.

But all of Schiff’s claims were lies.

“None of this was true, and Mr. Schiff knew it.,” the ed board wrote. “In July 2017, here’s what former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Mr. Schiff and his colleagues: ‘I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election.’ Three months later, former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch agreed that while she’d seen “concerning” information, ‘I don’t recall anything being briefed up to me.’ Former Deputy AG Sally Yates concurred several weeks later: ‘We were at the fact-gathering stage here, not the conclusion stage.’

The piece concludes: “As for Mr. Schiff, no one should ever believe another word he says.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/schiff-knew-along-no-proof-russia-trump-collusion/

Question? Lawfags

So if Obama pardoned everyone before leaving office would that not mean the DS were safe so the only way to get them was to make them think they were going to get busted anyway then bust them committing new treason after what they were pardoned for?

So if you've been pardoned and commit new crimes afterwards are you covered for the new crimes?

Obama Chief of Staff Denis McDonough Unmasked General Flynn in January 2017

Acting DNI Richard Grenell declassified the list of Obama officials involved in the unmasking of General Mike Flynn in his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

CBS reporter Catherine Herridge obtained the list of Obama operatives who unmasked General Flynn.

Names include former CIA Director John Brennan, Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power and former DNI chief James Clapper.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/huge-obama-chief-staff-denis-mcdonough-unmasked-general-flynn-january-2017/

Controversial Decisions by Governors in NY, NJ, and PA Criticized as Factors in High Level of COVID-19 Nursing Home Deaths

The governors of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania are under fire for controversial nursing home policy decisions that critics say fueled coronavirus deaths in those facilities.

On March 25, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) ordered nursing homes to accept patients who tested positive for COVID-19, as the New York Post reported:

An executive at the unnamed Queens nursing home says that the facility was coronavirus-free until Gov. Andrew Cuomo forced facilities in the state to accept coronavirus patients on March 25.

In Pennsylvania, the Bucks County Courier Times reported:

On March 29, as Pennsylvania, New York and other states began ordering nursing homes to admit medically stable residents infected with the coronavirus, national trade groups warned it could unnecessarily cost more lives.

The health directives put “frail and older adults who reside in nursing homes at risk” and would “result in more people going to the hospital and more deaths,” the American Health Care Association and affiliates said at the time.

A month later, it appears government officials should have heeded the dire call to pursue different pandemic emergency plans.

Then on April 6, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy followed Cuomo’s lead and ordered New Jersey nursing homes to accept patients who tested positive for COVID-19, as NorthJersey.com reported:

New Jersey nursing homes cannot bar coronavirus patients from being admitted into their facilities, a new state policy designed to make room at hospitals already stressed from a growing surge of critically ill patients.

Though not all 50 states are currently providing complete data, a huge percentage of the 83,231 COVID-19 deaths in the United States, as of 5 p.m. eastern on Tuesday, May 12, were among residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities.

The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation has assembled nursing home/long-term care facility COVID-19 mortality data from the 33 states that report that data, and calculates that, as of May 7, nursing home and long term care facility residents accounted for 38 percent of the COVID-19 deaths in those states. The percentage of coronavirus deaths from nursing homes appears to be increasing as the pandemic drags on.

Table 1 below shows a summary of the ten states with the highest number of nursing home/long-term care facility COVID-19 deaths, as of May 7.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/13/controversial-decisions-governors-ny-nj-pa-criticized-factors-high-level-covid-19-nursing-home-deaths/