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Samantha Powers Unmasked Over 260 Americans During 2016; Soon We’ll Learn Why

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United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaks to reporters after a Security Council meeting at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution urging immediate deployment of United Nations monitors to former rebel-held eastern Aleppo, which France says is critical to prevent “mass atrocities” by Syrian forces, and especially militias. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

When U.S. intelligence agencies gather information on foreigners, often the name of a U.S. citizen or entity will be collected. Under current U.S. law, information about innocent citizens gathered in this way is referred to as incidental collection. Their names and data must be masked to protect their privacy.

Authorized government officials, under certain conditions, may “unmask” the identity of an individual.

When John Bolton served at the United Nations, he “unmasked” the identities of three individuals. In the year leading up to the 2016 presidential election, then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Powers unmasked over 260 Americans.

On September 20, 2017, Fox News reported that the remarkable number of Americans who had been unmasked at Powers’ request “was an attempt to uncover associates of President Trump. She was ‘unmasking’ at such a rapid pace in the final months of the Obama administration that she averaged more than one request for every working day in 2016, even seeking information in the days leading up to President Trump’s inauguration.”

In October 2017, Powers testified before a closed session of the House Intelligence Committee. Then Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) spoke to Fox News’ Brett Baier afterward and said:

Judicial Watch founder Tom Fitton filed an initial FOIA request for all State Department documents relating to Powers’ unmaskings in October 2017, and has been unable to obtain them. He said:

In late 2017, President Trump ordered the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Security Agency to grant access to members of the House Intelligence Committee. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) had been the chair of that committee until Democrats took over the majority in January.

In February, Nunes told investigative reporter Sarah Carter, “The NSA and ODNI were to put in safe guards – a repository so we could go and review (the documents) – they have yet to do it, The president ordered them to do it more than a year ago. We have yet to see that implemented.”

The unmasking records will be released soon and many pundits are expecting them to be related to Israel.

OANN’s Jack Posobiec sent the following tweets on Friday.

The Conservative Review’s Jordan Schachtel tweeted that the “Obama WH was so incredibly hostile to Israel that they used extraconstitutional surveillance powers to spy on pro-Israel advocates to make sure they could thwart efforts to defend Israel. Gross abuses of power & they got off scot-free, for now at least.”

(Note: The Obama administration, you may recall, was caught spying on the Israeli government in December 2015.)

During the transition period, Trump and Obama officials clashed over Israel, particularly about an upcoming vote over condemning Israeli settlements. Trump officials had made calls to world leaders seeking their support. Information about the calls was leaked to the media.

According to a February 2017 article in Foreign Policy:

George Papadopoulos appeared on “Fox and Friends” last week and said he “was shocked that the Mueller report included details suggesting that he was illicitly targeted because of his ties to Israel.” He said:

After years of receiving information in bits and pieces, it will be so satisfying to get the full story.

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Source: https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/05/25/samantha-powers-unmasked-260-americans-2016-soon-well-learn/


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