It wasn't me!

At Ace of Spades this morning:

Obama’s UN Ambassador Susan Power: I Didn’t Make Those Unmasking Requests. Someone Must Have Made Them Using My Credentials.
—Ace

Then that would be a major crime, right?

Someone within the Obama administration’s intelligence apparatus made requests to unmask the identity of Americans named in intelligence reports on behalf of Samantha Power, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
That’s what Power told the House Intelligence Committee last week during a closed-door interview.

South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy revealed in an interview on Fox News on Tuesday that Power was “emphatic” on the point that someone else in the Obama administration made the unmasking requests that have been attributed to her.

Fox News recently reported that Power made approximately 260 unmasking requests — a rate of one per business day — in her final year in office, including up through the end of Obama’s term.

I’m halfway willing to believe this — but then, I’m gonna need a major investigation to find out which Obama personnel were using Power’s logins and such to illegally make these unmasking requests.

Apparently someone without the power to do so himself — or someone who had the authority, but knew he was engaged in an illegal operation, and so wanted to conceal his identity.