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On February 3, 2009, John Brennan and James Clapper illegally-commandeered the foreign surveillance tool known as THE HAMMER.” They privatized it and placed it inside a secret CIA facility in Fort Washington, Maryland, for unlawful domestic surveillance.
President Obama and the directors of his intelligence community Robert Mueller, John Brennan, James Clapper, and James Comey utilized The Hammer for “blackmail and leverage.”
Dennis Montgomery
https://theamericanreport.org/2019/12/08/the-hammer-whistleblower-dennis-montgomery-faxed-obama-directly-alerted-17-federal-agencies-ig-horowitz-pelosi-about-illegal-surveillance/
https://twitter.com/DevinNunes/status/1260949322893455360
Byron York's Daily Memo: Devin Nunes vindicated - again
Think back to March 2017. Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, then chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced he had learned about the "unmasking" of Trump transition officials by the outgoing Obama administration. Most people didn't even know what unmasking was; it referred to the disclosure of names of Americans whose communications were incidentally picked up in U.S. intelligence surveillance. In this case, one American unmasked was Gen. Michael Flynn, the incoming Trump national security adviser, whose conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak were intercepted by U.S. spies. The unmasking led to enormous grief for Gen. Flynn and the country.
Nunes' announcement was quickly dismissed as a "stunt," a "charade," and a "fiasco." "The unmasking stunt was completely fabricated," said former Obama Justice Department official Matthew Miller. "Devin Nunes is dangerous," pronounced the New York Times' Frank Bruni. "Nunes' Fake Scandal" declared the New Yorker. Similar sentiments echoed across the hallowed halls of the Washington Post, the Times, CNN, and MSNBC.
Then everyone moved on. There was much more to discover. In 2018, Nunes announced the source of the notorious Steele dossier and the fact that U.S. intelligence used its false allegations to win court approval to wiretap a former Trump campaign official, Carter Page. Nunes was again denounced. His discovery was wait for it a stunt and a charade and a fiasco. But of course, Nunes was right.
So now, back to unmasking. Thanks to the efforts of Richard Grenell, the temporary head of U.S. intelligence, the list of Obama officials who submitted requests to unmask Flynn during the transition has finally been declassified. A total of 16 Obama officials sought secret information about Flynn, including Vice President Joe Biden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey, UN Ambassador Samantha Power, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, and White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough.
The requesters were authorized to receive information about unmasking. Perhaps all of them had entirely legitimate and unremarkable reasons to need to see it. But the bottom line is, there sure were a lot of Obama people interested in Michael Flynn during the transition. What did they want? "The officials listed should confirm whether they reviewed this information, why they asked for it and what they did with it," said Republican Senators Ron Johnson and Charles Grassley, who asked for the information.
And then there is Devin Nunes. Just as with the dossier, he was right to point out unmasking. And as always, he's prepared to be denounced again. But he is feeling a sense of vindication. "I sounded the alarm on this in March 2017," he said in a statement Wednesday night. "It's an outrageous abuse of Americans' civil liberties for an administration to exploit our intelligence capabilities to spy on its political opponents. And that's exactly what happened."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-yorks-daily-memo-devin-nunes-vindicated-again
Morning Q!
Hilderbeast sounds worried. I'd like to see some fear in her evil eyes!
Is this true Q?
Mike Pence talked Dan Coats out of quitting the Trump administration
Whenever Trump is souring on Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, whom he calls "Mister Rogers," Pence encourages him to stick with Coats.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/mike-pence-talked-dan-coats-out-quitting-trump-administration-n985096
Coats and Pence both from Indiana, long time frens.
Coats — who served as a Republican congressman and senator from Indiana and later as ambassador to Germany — was confirmed as the DNI two years ago with bipartisan support after being recruited to the job by Pence. But the dynamic between Coats and Trump quickly came to mirror the president's relationship with the U.S. intelligence community as a whole, which had been fraught from the start.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/mike-pence-talked-dan-coats-out-quitting-trump-administration-n985096
Over and over again Trump raised the issue of being wire tapped, and over and over Coats told him he wasn't wiretapped, officials said, but the president didn't want to hear it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/mike-pence-talked-dan-coats-out-quitting-trump-administration-n985096
The dynamic between the president and Coats took another hit after Trump's Dec. 19 announcement that the U.S. would withdraw all of its troops from Syria.
Mattis's resignation mirrored how Coats felt about the decision, officials said, and Coats had come to see the defense secretary as an ally. "He and Mattis bonded in many ways," one former senior administration official said of Coats. After Mattis's resignation, Coats "struggled with what the right thing to do was," a second official said.
A month later, Trump was upset with Coats for publicly touting the value of NATO, particularly in keeping a check on Russia, officials said. He also fumed over his assessments before Congress that Iran is complying with the nuclear deal Trump withdrew from, and that North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons program. The president viewed Coats's comments as undermining his foreign policy, including his diplomatic talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/mike-pence-talked-dan-coats-out-quitting-trump-administration-n985096