@GeorgeCroner .1. Another series of gibberish tweets by former NSA counsel George Croner on the Obama admin's weaponization of intelligence against @realDonaldTrump's campaign and transition staff. This time he let loose on @AndrewCMcCarthy for his excellent @NRO on this issue.
@GeorgeCroner @realDonaldTrump @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO .2 McCarthy's article is very significant because he tries to explain why @GenFlynn's name apparently was contained in an FBI report of surveillance of Russian Ambassador Kislyak and was not masked. McCarthy raises a point I made on @IngrahamAngle's show last week that . . .
@GeorgeCroner @realDonaldTrump @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @GenFlynn @IngrahamAngle .3 . . . this collection may have been in response to standing FISA collection against Kislyak. This meant it was not necessary to get a warrant to spy on @flynn in late December 2016. Croner ignores this central point of McCarthy's article.
@GeorgeCroner @realDonaldTrump @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @GenFlynn @IngrahamAngle @Flynn 4. McCarthy also discusses reports that @Flynn's name was never masked in the FBI report on his 12/29/16 phone call with Kislyak. McCarthy's comments on this are very troubling: "the Bureau played fast and loose with the rules. When investigators are so inclined, it turns. . .
@GeorgeCroner @realDonaldTrump @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @GenFlynn @IngrahamAngle @Flynn 5. . . . out the privacy vouchsafed by the minimization rules is illusory. FBI officials — if they thought about it at all — figured Flynn need not be masked because they did not see him as an innocent American incidentally caught up in foreign surveillance. They purported...
@GeorgeCroner @realDonaldTrump @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @GenFlynn @IngrahamAngle @Flynn 6. . . . to suspect that he was a clandestine agent of Russia." I think McCarthy is right. @GenFlynn's name normally would have been masked in a report like this and an unmasking procedure would be needed to unmask it. But in this case, FBI officials decided . . .
@GeorgeCroner @realDonaldTrump @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @GenFlynn @IngrahamAngle @Flynn 7. . . . to ignore the rules because they and other Obama officials were promoting the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. Croner tries to confuse the issue by blathering about irrelevant NSA unmasking rules. He also contends that revealing @GenFlynn's name was appropriate . . .
@GeorgeCroner @realDonaldTrump @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @GenFlynn @IngrahamAngle @Flynn 7. . . . "because of concerns he was the target of intelligence activities of a foreign power." This doesn't hold water because @GenFlynn had legitimate reasons to speak with Kislyak as the incoming National Security Adviser. But this argument also could set a dangerous . . .
@GeorgeCroner @realDonaldTrump @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @GenFlynn @IngrahamAngle @Flynn 8. . . . precedent since the US government assumes that EVERY senior US official is targeted by foreign intelligence services. Croner's argument would make it too easy for an outgoing admin to spy on officials of an incoming admin. Incredibly, Croner also cites the Logan Act
@GeorgeCroner @realDonaldTrump @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @GenFlynn @IngrahamAngle @Flynn 9. . . . as a legitimate reason for spying on @GenFlynn and unmasking or inappropriately releasing his name to Obama officials. Aside from the fact that this antiquated law clearly doesn't apply to officials of an incoming admin, if Croner really believes this law still . . .
@GeorgeCroner @realDonaldTrump @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @GenFlynn @IngrahamAngle @Flynn 10. . . . applies, I call on him to explain why John Kerry should not be prosecuted under it due to his collusion with Iranian officials against @realDonaldTrump's Iran policy.
Finally, Croner argues that the 1/17 intelligence community assessment which found Russia . . .
Finally, Croner argues that the 1/17 intelligence community assessment which found Russia . . .
@GeorgeCroner @realDonaldTrump @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @GenFlynn @IngrahamAngle @Flynn 11. . . . meddling in the 2016 election to help @realDonaldTrump win justified the revealing @GenFlynn's name to Obama officials from intel reports. Croner ignores how this assessment has been widely discredited for failing to follow IC rules for drafting such assessments.
@GeorgeCroner @realDonaldTrump @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @GenFlynn @IngrahamAngle @Flynn 12. I also explained in a recent op-ed that the @HouseIntelComm found that Russia actually wanted Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election and @JohnBrennan withheld intel on this from the ICA. The IC has sat on this report since 9/18.
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@GeorgeCroner @realDonaldTrump @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @GenFlynn @IngrahamAngle @Flynn @HouseIntelComm @JohnBrennan 13. @AndrewCMcCarthy made crucial arguments in his article that the anti-Trump left (of which Croner is a card-carrying member) can't answer. I'm waiting for Croner to explain why no NSA whistleblowers came forward after Obama officials made 100s of unmasking requests . . .
@GeorgeCroner @realDonaldTrump @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @GenFlynn @IngrahamAngle @Flynn @HouseIntelComm @JohnBrennan 14. . . . against @realDonaldTrump aides. This was clearly unethical and screamed for an IG complaint.
The anti-Trumpers are getting desperate. They know the evidence is mounting on #obamagate -- the weaponization of intel by the Obama admin against Trump and his aides.
The anti-Trumpers are getting desperate. They know the evidence is mounting on #obamagate -- the weaponization of intel by the Obama admin against Trump and his aides.
