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Originally Posted by Jsmith27
I don't know the process completely. That is why I am asking. Why would the vice president want/need that information? Wouldn't the person unmasking someone, be someone involved in investigation? As far as I know the VP job doesn't involve that?
Ignoring the disagreement into the validity of the investigation, unmasking is a person requesting information about a person who was referred to anonymously in an intelligence document. By definition the person making the request doesn't know who they are unmasking.
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Ya, there wasn't any probable cause. If you think Putin saying something like that, is cause for the past president to spy on an incoming president, than that seems like something to be corrupted very easily lol. It is time to investigate the investigators, because they made so many "mistakes" that all were against the Trump teams favor. So while you may disagree with me, I am happy that Barr doesn't.
Just to repeat, the call between Flynn and the Russian ambassador was recorded due to surveillance of the ambassador and was in no way a result of any spying on the incoming administration.
As for "mistakes", people have already pointed out that if they were actually so anti-Trump and wanted to dismantle his campaign they could have simply leaked the fact that the investigation was happening. Instead it was kept completely out of public sight until after Trump was elected, in the meanwhile Comey made a public announcement about the investigation into Clinton. Up until January 2017 the actions of the FBI were drastically more harmful to Clinton than Trump.