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Originally Posted by beastalamode
Are all you on the left in here also ok with all the unmasking requests made by Obama's staff between the election and Trump's inauguration? You do realize unmasking members of the opposing transition team is pretty much starting a political war right?
According to the political poll posted in another thread, I am not on the left. But I'll answer anyway.
Intelligence surveillance of a Russian official picked up a call from a member of a political campaign who tried to sell very high-stakes political favors that ran contrary to congress-approved foreign policy / sanctions. As per custom, this is put into a briefing (or similar document) where name of this campaign member is made anonymous. It was feared that this political operative had opened himself up to blackmail, by breaking the law and admitting it to high-profiled Russian players.
According to you, the correct thing to do by the WH administration after having seen this document, was to completely ignore it.
What was done, was to formally request the name be unsealed and there-after inform the political campaign what was happening, and also inform them that said political operative was lying to his campaign about his dealings. No public announcement was made at this point and no leaks occurred, so there was no public embarrassment to the campaign.
Again, according to you (and others in this thread) this is apparently the worst political scandal in US history and a heinous crime.