colfax_m
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"Go do your homework" is not a defense. It's a deflection.he defends it fine; you just have zero give in your views. you see it one way and one way only and then simply try to bully those who disagree.Go do your homework.Reason's for unmasking are not equal. Each are specific and purposed. Most are normal protocol, but what happened in the Trump situation was something all together different. It's known now, and the documents tell it.where? where has the trump admin use this tactic?Unmasking is NOT illegal./——-/ Breaking:And this
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Lead prosecutor in Flynn case abruptly resigns
As new exculpatory evidence is unsealed, the case against Flynn has reemerged as a matter of national interestjustthenews.com
In a single sentence filing to the court, Van Grack informed federal Judge Emmet Sullivan that he would be quitting the case.
Top Obama administration officials purportedly requested to "unmask" the identity of Michael Flynn during the presidential transition period, according to a list of names from that controversial process made public on Wednesday.
List of officials who sought to 'unmask' Flynn released: Biden, Comey, Obama chief of staff among them
What does ‘unmasking’ someone in an intel report mean?
In 2016, Obama administration officials received intelligence reports that were concerning, but incomplete.
Surveillance of Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. revealed he had interacted with an unnamed American who may have been undercutting efforts to pressure Vladimir Putin’s government.
Using a common process known as “unmasking,” they asked intelligence agencies to reveal the American’s name. It was Michael Flynn, an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump.
There is nothing illegal about unmasking and the declassified document states that proper procedures were followed. While Trump casts unmasking as sinister, his administration has used the process more frequently than Obama’s.
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Q&A: What does 'unmasking' someone in an intel report mean?
WASHINGTON (AP) — In 2016, Obama administration officials received intelligence reports that were concerning, but incomplete.www.bozemandailychronicle.com
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N.S.A. ‘Unmaskings’ of U.S. Identities Soared Last Year, Report Says (Published 2019)
An agency official attributed the change, disclosed in a new report about surveillance, to reports about American victims of foreign hackers.www.nytimes.com
Intelligence officials asked the National Security Agency to unmask the identities of Americans in surveillance-based intelligence reports 16,721 times last year — a significant rise from a year earlier, a new report revealed on Tuesday.
Uh oh.
How was it all together different?
You made the claim, apparently you aren't able to defend it. Weak.
weak.
People just want to say and believe whatever they want. It doesn't matter if it's grounded in reality. It doesn't matter if it has a factual basis or evidence to support it. You can tell when people don't want to acknowledge that's the case, because they never seem to want to talk about why they believe what they believe. Instead they tend to get upset. They take it as an attack just to be asked why they believe what they believe. As if their beliefs are so fragile that they cannot stand even the slightest bit of scrutiny. That's the weakness.
Now, no one's perfect, and I'm certainly guilty of that at times, but I think if we want to have a functional society, people should be expected to at least try to be real and not just believe whatever is convenient, or easy or whatever satisfies their ego. It's hard, I know. But if you ask me why I believe something, I'm going to be prepared to explain why.
It's a disussion board, so I assume people are here for discussion. If defending your beliefs is too difficult, then you need to grow some spine. Life isn't your safe space.
So here's what I think. I agree that unmasking can be done for good or bad reasons. That's obvious. I don't see anyone explaining why unmasking Flynn was improper. And when asked about why people feel it was improper, they get upset. What am I to conclude based on that? I conclude that no one really knows why it's improper but it's important for them to feel that it is to justify the ongoing victimization complex.