Thread: Trump: 'Big story' is unmasking, surveillance during Obama administration

Trump: 'Big story' is unmasking, surveillance during Obama administration

By Rebecca Savransky
06/01/17 07:21 AM EDT

President Trump on Thursday turned his attention to "unmasking and surveillance" in the Obama administration, calling it the "big story."

"The big story is the 'unmasking and surveillance' of people that took place during the Obama Administration," Trump tweeted Thursday.

Trump's comments come after the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday issued seven new subpoenas in its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Three of the subpoenas focus on allegations of improper "unmasking" of Trump campaign officials, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Those three subpoenas went to the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency and are related to questions — primarily from Republicans — about how the names of Trump associates were un-redacted and distributed in classified Obama administration reports during the transition period.

Republicans have signaled they see unmasking as the key to investigating the source of media leaks damaging to the Trump administration.

Trump and his aides have often railed against the leaking of information to the media and Trump has blasted the Russia probe as a "witch hunt."

http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...administration

Trump is right. The unmasking and surveillance by the Obama Administration is the big story. It is one of the crimes, despite how the Obamaites try to defend it as "national security". This was simple spying on political opponents during an election for purely political purposes. The other crime of course is leaking the information for political purposes. These are the only crimes on the table and in the hopper, yet there are no investigations of any of them until now.

Finally, David Nunes has taken charge and ordered subpoenas of the CIA, National Security Advisor and Ambassador to the UN, John Brennan, Susan Rice and Samantha Powers. There will of course be many more to come.