Thread by @The_War_Economy

MARK LEVIN: "Have you ever been approached in an unusual way?"
JOHN SOLOMON: "Oh, I'll tell you a story about a mailbox, er, which occurred at my home. I'd say it's- it's semable to the Russia story. Sara and I had just begun working on what we called the NSA abuse stories-"

SARA CARTER: "Yeah, the unmaskings."
JOHN SOLOMON: "And unmaskings. And we had just gone on television, on Sean's show - Sean Hannity's show - that night, we talked about this sudden rise in unmaskings. And I came- I drove home, I got to my mailbox, pulled up my car, and..."

"... there was a blue Sedan sitting outside the mailbox, and there were two gentlemen, clearly intelligence officers, somewhere from the Government, they never identified their names. And they stepped out and they said, 'Are you Mr. Solomon?' I said, 'yes'..."

"They said 'we just saw you on Sean Hannity's show, we wanted to talk to you for a second. We can't tell you much, because most of what we know is classified, but we will tell you this: if you keep digging..."

"... you will find out that the United States intelligence community was used for a political opposition research project and we are deeply concerned'. And I said, 'well, why are you concerned?'"

"'We need these tools, things like FISA and the NSA, to capture bad guys, and if we misuse it for political dirty tricks, we won't have those tools when the next terrorist attack, or the next spy, shows up in town. We need you to go find out what happened'."

"And that's all they told me. It was about 11:30 by the time we finished the conversation. I ran in, I wrote this long e-mail of everything I can remember - I send to Sara. Hits the box about 2 o'clock in the morning - she's still up! She responds right back."

JOHN SOLOMON: "But that's how we got started into understanding this was much bigger than just an unmasking scandal."
SARA CARTER: "It was- it was huge."
MARK LEVIN: "How long ago was this?"
SARA CARTER: "Oh. Was that... 2017?"
JOHN SOLOMON: "March 2017."

SARA CARTER: "Yeah, March 2017, cause we had already been working on the stories. I mean, we were getting tipped off, we saw what was happening to General Flynn- Lieutenant General Mike Flynn. I remember... being approached by, let's say, federal law enforcement officers, er..."

"... who had told me, 'You really need to dig into what's happened to Lt. Gen. Flynn, er, apparently, er, there's a lot been going on inside the FBI. Look at Andrew McCabe, focus on some of these characters.' It was the same thing that happened to John."

Mark Levin video timestamped to the above.

On March 28, 2017, Circa published the article "Obama's rule changes opened door for NSA intercepts of Americans to reach political hands".

circa.com/story/2017/03/…

On April 3, 2017, Circa published the article "White House logs indicate Susan Rice consumed unmasked intel on Trump associates".

circa.com/story/2017/04/…

On June 27, 2017, Circa published the article "Did the FBI retaliate against Michael Flynn by launching a Russia probe?"

circa.com/story/2017/06/…

"BREAKING: McCabe in early 2017 ordered FBI's Inspection Div to open internal probe into who leaked to Sara Carter & John Solomon at Circa News that McCabe had made disparaging remarks about Gen. Flynn in staff meetings." -- Paul Sperry, March 8, 2019

https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1104193857288355848

"Three FBI employees told Circa they personally witnessed McCabe make disparaging remarks about Flynn before and during the time the retired Army general emerged as a figure in the Russia case."

circa.com/story/2017/06/…

The Inspection Division received a complaint on March 15, 2017, although it looks as if the division was made aware on February 21, 2017, about "a media leak involving a statement overheard in early February 2017".

vault.fbi.gov/deputy-directo…

Now, the actual unmasking scandal was discovered in March 2017 during a National Security Council review by lawyers for the White House, which was apparently conducted by Ezra Cohen-Watnick.

bloomberg.com/view/articles/…

On March 15, 2017, Representative Schiff and Representative Nunes sent a letter to Director Comey, Director Rogers and Director Pompeo to request information on leaks of classified information and potential unmaskings of Americans.

reuters.com/article/us-usa…

In the evening of March 21, 2017, Nunes received a telephone call while in an Uber, which led to him travelling to the White House.

nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/…

During March 21's evening, Nunes apparently met Ezra Cohen-Watnick and Michael Ellis on the grounds of the White House, where Nunes may have viewed the computer systems in the National Security Council to access documents.

nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/…

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

On March 22, Nunes met with Speaker Ryan to discuss the surveillance operations conducted by intelligence agencies on Trump and his transition team, then contacted Directors Pompeo and Rogers about it.

ajc.com/news/national/…

Nunes then hosted his press conference at the US Capitol where he said he had seen evidence of communications between President Trump and his transition team were incidentally collected during surveillance operations of foreign targets and then unmasked.

ajc.com/news/national/…

Nunes then visited the White House to inform President Trump of the intelligence he received about the actions of intelligence agencies on Trump and his transition team. The NSA was being cooperative. The FBI was not.

ajc.com/news/national/…

This forced Evelyn Farkas, the next day on March 23, 2017, to be interviewed by Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe.

"'Get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can before President Obama leaves the Administration.'"

"Judicial Watch: Documents Reveal Obama State Department Urgently Provided Classified 'Russiagate' Documents to Multiple Senators Immediately Ahead of Trump Inauguration".

December 14, 2018

judicialwatch.org/press-room/pre…

FARKAS: "So I became very worried because not enough was coming out into the open and I knew there was more. We have very good intelligence on Russia. So then I had talked to some of my former colleagues and I knew that they were trying to also help get information to the Hill."

"Obama Administration Rushed to Preserve Intelligence of Russian Election Hacking" by Matthew Rosenberg, Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt

March 1, 2017, The New York Times

nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/…

On April 2, 2017, Mike Cernovich published the article "Susan Rice Requested Unmasking of Incoming Trump Administration Officials" in Medium.

archive.is/xBMV7

This was followed on April 3, 2017 with The Wall Street Journal's article, "Susan Rice Unmasked".

wsj.com/articles/susan…

This forced Susan Rice to be interviewed on April 4, 2017 by Andrea Mitchell on "Andrea Mitchell Reports", where she denied improperly unmasking members of the Trump transition team.

nbcnews.com/politics/polit…

Between April 3 - 10, 2017, employees and members of the House Intelligence Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee reviewed the same reports provided to Nunes at the NSA's Headquarters.

edition.cnn.com/2017/04/11/pol…

On May 8, 2017, Peter Strzok texted:

"FUCK! Clapper and Yates through Graham questions are all playing into the 'there should be an unmasking request / record' for incidental collection incorrect narrative."

scribd.com/document/37754…

On September 6, 2017, Susan Rice testified before investigators at the House Intelligence Committee, which led to Manu Raju's exclusive for CNN, "Exclusive: Rice told House investigators why she unmasked senior Trump officials" on September 13, 2017.

edition.cnn.com/2017/09/13/pol…

Rice said she had unmasked a meeting on December 15, 2016 between the Trump transition team [Flynn, Kushner, Bannon] when they met with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan and George Nader at Trump Tower in New York.

nymag.com/daily/intellig…

edition.cnn.com/2017/09/13/pol…

"In February, Cohen-Watnick discovered Rice's multiple requests to unmask U.S. persons in intelligence reports that related to Trump transition activities."

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

"Computer logs that former President Obama's team left behind in the White House indicate his national security adviser Susan Rice accessed numerous intelligence reports during Obama's last seven months in office that contained NSA intercepts involving Trump and associates."

"Intelligence sources said the logs discovered by NSA staff suggested Rice's interest in the NSA materials, some of which included unmasked American identities, appeared to begin last July around the time Trump secured the GOP nomination..."

"... and accelerated after Trump's election in November launched a transition that continued through January."

circa.com/story/2017/04/…

"The intelligence reports included some intercepts of Americans talking to foreigners and many more involving foreign leaders talking about the future president, his campaign associates or his transition, the sources said."

"Most if not all had nothing to do with the Russian election interference scandal, the sources said, speaking only on the condition of anonymity given the sensitive nature of the materials."

circa.com/story/2017/04/…

"Ted Kontek: He saw much of the 'wiretap' material and says none of the transcripts point to a conspiracy. 'There is nothing like that,' he told me. 'And nor would you expect there to be."

spectator.co.uk/2017/06/just-h…

"American law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted the communications around the same time they were discovering evidence that Russia was trying to disrupt the presidential election by hacking into the DNC."

nytimes.com/2017/02/14/us/…