Flynn Was NOT Unmasked. Never Masked At All.

Last post, I reported on Dan Bongino's claims that Flynn was not unmasked, because he was never masked in the first place.
The unmasking was a ploy to hide how the content was really come by.

Now Andy McCarthy digs into it in a very clear manner:

Unmasking? The Real Story Is When Flynn Was Not Masked in the First Place

Highlights (from the article):

The Chronology

Grenell’s list notes an unmasking request for Flynn on December 28, 2016 — weirdly, by the U.S. ambassador to Turkey. There are no unmasking requests on December 29, the date of the Kislyak call. Nor is there one during the week after that. In fact, the next listed unmasking occurred on January 5, 2017. That one is attributed to President Obama’s chief of staff, Denis McDonough. This highlights how central that day is to the anatomy of the Democrat-crafted “collusion” narrative. It was on the morning of January 5 when Obama, Vice President Biden, and National Security Advisor Susan Rice discussed Flynn and the Trump–Russia investigation with FBI director James Comey and acting attorney general Sally Yates.

Yet we know that participants in that meeting already knew about Flynn’s identity as Kislyak’s interlocutor. The exhibits attached to the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the Flynn case relate that Comey’s deputy, Andrew McCabe, knew about it no later than January 3, the day he briefed Mary McCord, who ran the Justice Department’s National Security Division. Plus, Yates recalled being surprised that Obama already knew about the Flynn–Kislyak call (and, in fact, is the one who told Yates about it). Clearly, the news had been percolating at the highest levels of the Obama administration for at least a couple of days, although it may not yet have made its way down to Joe Pientka, the FBI case agent on Trump–Russia, who on January 4 signed off on a memo closing the FBI’s Flynn counterintelligence investigation (“Crossfire Razor”).

To summarize, the list provided by Grenell indicates no unmasking of Flynn between December 28 (the day before the call) and January 5, even though news of Flynn’s identification was already circulating on January 3 (when McCabe briefed McCord about it).

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The CIA and Non-FISA Intel Ops

Well, the possibility that first leaps to mind is: Maybe Flynn was a FISA surveillance target. That is, his interception was not incidental. Rather, the FBI was monitoring him under FISA because he was a suspected agent of a foreign power — the theory based on which the bureau opened their counterintelligence investigation of Flynn in August 2016. But that can’t be right. After an exhaustive investigation of the FBI’s abuse of FISA, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded that there is no evidence the FBI “requested or seriously considered FISA surveillance of . . . Flynn.” (IG Report’s “Executive Summary,” p. vi.)

It is more likely, then, that the Flynn–Kislyak call was captured by intelligence operations that are not governed by FISA.

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Flynn was either tapped by the CIA or a "friendly" foreign agency.
It's hard to say which would be worse of all three options.

Please read the article in full.



BTW, we had a great radio show yesterday:
Gaylene Deitering, Ed Bonderenka and Phil Stargell interview former federal judge Professor William Wagner of the Great Lakes Justice Center.
We discuss the ramifications of the lockdown.

Was Flynn Unmasked?

At about the 43 minute mark, this gets real interesting.

Dan Bongino is making a case that Flynn wasn't unmasked.

Provides testimony and dates.

Flynn was targeted. Not a byproduct.

Either our IC did it or a foreign agency that gave it to the Obama team, which is using unmasking to cover up.

Makes a good case.

That is REALLY against the law.

North Korea Peace Treaty

So, the deal is, that to give Li'l Kim the assurance that he won't be khadaffi'd (ala Clinton/Obama/Dems) there will be an actual Treaty with North Korea, such as should have been done with Iran.

Why did Obama not go for a treaty with Iran?
He knew that the Senate would not vote for it.

It just occurred to me that Trump might have the same problem given his demonization by Schumer, et al.

What will the mid-terms look like if the dems oppose a treaty (if it is called for that quickly) or 2020 (if it isn't)?

What do you think?

Veterans Day

Let's remember the men (and women) who served, doing the job some of us couldn't bear to do.

Pretty Good Show

One thing I'd like to point out is that I play the Franken question of Sessions that Sessions supposedly lied too.

The question was not "Did you meet with Russians?"
Why am I the only one noticing that the question was (at 6:50), "If there is any evidence...What would you do?"
Sessions didn't even answer the question. Like any politician.

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Treason

The guy on the Left (literally) pardoned the traitor Bradley Manning (shown in uniform).
While technically "commuting" the sentence (shortening it to time served), it falls under the pardon powers granted the president.

Manning released Top Secret information (transferred to a thumb drive) that cost the lives of American Servicemen.
And Obama and the Left are concerned about Russian hacking?

Come Friday, come.

Addendum:
Many are asking why Obama would do such a thing.
The answer is in the parable of the wicked steward.
The wicked steward seeing he is about to lose his job, renders debt to his present master uncollectable, for his own purposes, so that when he is removed from office he will be well received by his new masters.
Obama wants to be a major figure still, on the left.

Constitutional Insurgent also weighs in.

Utter Corruption on Open Display

I thought this might have been a misrepresentation of a statement.
No.
The president of the US is on the record, encouraging an illegal immigrant to vote with impunity.
His job description is to enforce the law, not ignore it.

And you thought Hillary would be prosecuted?

Speaking of corruption in voting.

Cuba Libre!

In some movies like "October Sky" and notably "Matewan" you see the portrayal of the "Company Town" with the "Company Store".
Products of "evil capitalism".
And yet company towns and company stores mostly adhered to the socialist model.
Another store was not allowed in town because the government (the company) owned everything, including the land on which a competing store might build on.
The housing, the source of income, the currency (scrip was money that could only be spent in the company store).
You couldn't leave the economy because the scrip you were paid in, if you could save any, was only valid in the company town.
You see some anti-capital film like Matewan, and it’s a screed against “capitalism” with the people yearning to be free… from the same conditions you find in Cuba!

The Difference

UPDATE:
I was on Bennett talking with him about this today.
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Much has been said about democrats like Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Hillary Clinton (links point to articles on the subject) not being able to describe the "Difference Between a Democrat and a Socialist".
And rightly so.
Now it's coming to haunt Hillary as we see the rise and acceptance of a "Democratic Socialist", Bernie Sanders, posed to take her lunch away.
The funny thing is that Bernie is still not a member of the Democratic Party.

From Senate.gov:
 Sanders, Bernard - (I - VT) Class I
332 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
(202) 224-5141
Contact: www.sanders.senate.gov/contact/

He only caucuses with the Democrats.

I said all that to say this.
What is the difference between a conservative and a Republican?
And I know the difference. I've heard you all rant on it. And I agree.

What prompts this is the National Review issue attacking Trump.
I am so glad to see this.
And to the critics who say that this is the Establishment attacking Cruz?
Dana Loesch? Tom Sowell? Glenn Beck? Mona Charen? Stephen Hayward? 

So, Bernie is not a Democrat and is a socialist, and is kicking Hillary to the curb. 

Similarly, Trump who was never a Republican til recently and not a conservative is tromping Cruz, et al.

Why is Trump doing so well?

I've had a theory that we view candidates as our "avatars" or "emojicons" who represent how we feel.

I hear so many say, "I like what Trump says. He's sticking it to the establishment!".

But there is no There, there.

"Oh, he'll pick the brightest minds. It'll be HUGE!".

But what is HIS mind? What will be the mindset of the minds he chooses?

I don't get it.

I've got smart friends here, that seem to support Trump.

What happens after Trump gets elected?

He won't pick Cruz as veep and wouldn't listen to him if he did.

Who will check this narcissist if in power?

I'd like to hear your opinion.

Maybe Obama Knows....

Naw. I doubt it.

Disarming the Police

Remember those pictures of the cops protected by armored vehicles surrounding the terrorists SUV?
Obama wants to even the odds.

Headline:

Michigan cops fume over loss of U.S. military vehicles

Link.

"Michigan law enforcement agencies are returning donated surplus military equipment to the federal government this month — including tracked armored vehicles that metro Detroit sheriff's offices have had for more than a decade— under orders of the White House, and they are not happy about it."

A Rose by any other Name...

Rizwan Farook, Tashfeen Malik
Maybe their names mean Global Warming and Climate Change in Arabic.

Side Effects

If you notice glowing and mushroom clouds, contact your doctor.

Give money and permission to a country that VOWS to destroy us.
What could possibly go wrong?

It's not just a river...

Denali is an anagram for denial.

Choices, Choices

Is there a difference between the two major political parties?
Where to start.

All major decaying cities are, and have been, governed by democrat politicians, often proven corrupt (see Kwamie Kilpatrick).

The LBJ (democrat president) Great Society has caused the breakup of the black family and ultimately black social fabric resulting in multiple sperm donor mothers with fatherless broods of children.

The Democrat Party full throttle supports Planned Parenthood in an attempt to kill many of these children before they are born.

Under the current Democrat president, the economy sputters along, social spending (welfare) masking a second Great Depression with an unemployment rate that (when unadjusted by liars) equals the 25% of the 1930's,

The same 1930's, whose depression was prolonged by another socialist democrat president, FDR, who if not for the victory in WWII, would be remembered as an abject failure.

There's a reason why presidential terms were limited after his reign.

One of the most remarkable turnarounds of the American Economy was under the leadership of a former actor turned Republican leader named Ronald Reagan, who caused the Russian threat to freedom to collapse.

The current democratic president, Barack Hussein Obama, (whose birth name was Sotero), supports Muslim Brotherhood dictatorships hostile to our country , yet vilifies or distances us from traditional allies, has just signed an agreement with Iran, a nation hostile to America and responsible for the death of many of our citizens.

This deal will allow them to police themselves in the hope that they will not allow themselves to get the nuclear weapons they have been seeking for decades.

And his administration is heralding this a diplomatic victory, while hiding the details of the agreement from the citizenry.

The foremost Democratic Party candidate for the presidency has engaged in documented fraud and cover-up of what appear to be a criminal lack of judgment concerning national security.
And the runner up behind her is an admitted socialist.

The foremost contender for the Republican Party candidacy is a blowhard billionaire businessman known for his transparency and inability to hide a thought about anything.
The runner up is a brilliant brain surgeon who rose out of poverty in a hellhole governed by democrats.

So.  If you had to choose a party to support in the upcoming election, which do you think it might be.
It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure that out.

I Am Transracialling

I've been trying to get my head around:

• TAA Trade Adjustment Assistance (a phony racket and a sop to unions offering "retraining" for workers whose jobs were sold out) which by the rejection of the Democrats is holding up the
• TPA Trade Promotion Authority (more executive authority for Obama) which would fast track the
• TPP Trans-Pacific Partnership which would be just like
• NAFTA and create a giant sucking sound across the Pacific of American jobs leaving these shores

My mexican compatriots are benefitting economically from Nafta at my expense.
All the car companies have moved manufacturing jobs there.

I resent Ted Cruz selling us out on another job sucking trade agreement and I can speak to that without being racist because I am Hispanic like him.

I was trimming the hedges and mowing my grass when I realized that I was born to
landscape.
I realized the source of my unhappiness. I was living a lie.
I no longer identify with being Ukranian.

I've decided that if Bruce Jenner can call himself a woman,
Rachel Dolezal can pretend to be black and is an NAACP leader (!),
then I'm going to be Mexican (I've got Rodriguez relatives) and join La Raza.
From now on you must refer to me as a Mexican.

From now on, my vote will be sought by presidential candidates and not taken for granted.
I may get special status.

But for now I have to "press 2".

You anglos tick me off.

But I am still your neighbor: http://yourvoiceyourad.com/
Vote for me.

Armed Forces Day

Thanks guys.
Sorry about your boss.
Hang in there and he'll be gone soon.
Thought of removing him yourself?

Infamy

(Based on a comment I made at Z's.)

Imagine if on Dec 8, 1941, FDR had gotten on the radio and said something like:

“Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”

“Yesterday at the White House, we welcomed community groups from the United States, and some from your countries, to focus on how we can empower communities to protect their families and friends and neighbors from violent ideologies and recruitment. 
And over the coming months, many of your countries will host summits to build on the work here and to prepare for the General Assembly. 
Today, I want to suggest some areas where I believe we can focus on as governments.”

Of course the second part is a quote from Obama.

War Powers

One thing I never hear about as a rationalization for "Police Actions" (Korea, Vietnam), is the effect of treaties and alliances on warfare.
Remember how WW1 started.
It was the result of "secret treaties" where a nation would declare war on one other country, not realizing it was declaring war on that country's allies, of which it was "unaware",

When Pearl Harbor was attacked, the United States was brought into war with Germany because of it's alliance with Japan, which it chose to honor.

If we had declared war on North Korea or North Vietnam, we may have been exposed to inadvertently declaring war on China, or Russia, or both.

Maybe I never hear about this because I'm totally out in left field about it.

Nonetheless, as everybody knows, we've gotten in the habit of letting presidents wage war without declarations of such by congress. We do however have congressional "approvals".

Resident Sotero is seeking such funding for battling ISIS.

Like a guy who doesn't want to fight, yelling to his friends, "Hold me back!".
The terms he's asking for, as you probably know, are such that the funding runs out after he leaves office and restrains him from putting boots on the ground.
Except for Special Forces. Special Forces are allowed. Probably because they wear moccasins or sneakers or such. Or a footwear technically not boots (Special Warfare Footwear?).

If someone is going to ask for war authorization money you would think that first they have to act like we are at war.
And if we were at war then Congress must declare it.
And once that war begins, it must be prosecuted like war, with victory being the end game.
If we were to go to war with Isis, the goal should not be to control the land or to hold the towns and cities.
I keep hearing you need boots on the ground to hold the land.
That's occupation.
The goal is to destroy the enemy which is Isis, and then leave.
Just as Hiroshima, Dresden, Nagasaki, I don't care about collateral damage.
Just shattering the enemy's will to harm us.

We have an opportunity with Isis accumulating in one place a target rich environment in which to destroy those who wish to destroy us and our allies.
This was part of the rationale for fighting them over there instead of over here, multiplied.

Oh, well.
Opportunities missed.
Elections have consequences,

Try to imagine

FDR releasing German POWs.
Eisenhower releasing the Rosenbergs.
Reagan releasing the Walkers.
Obama releasing Al Quaeda operatives.

Oh, that last one wasn't so hard, was it?