The Obama administration's unmasking binge against Trump

Washington Examiner:
A declassified list of U.S. officials who received information in response to "unmasking" requests has given allies of President Trump fresh ammunition to question the actions of Obama-era ambassadors.
Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said the National Security Agency memo, which focused on spy intercepts of conversations then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn had with foreigners from the 2016 election to Trump's inauguration, is "just the tip of the iceberg."
"A lot of them went wild after Trump won. They got poisoned with this Russia hoax," Nunes told Fox News on Wednesday, referring to the previous administration. "That's why you had Obama ambassadors across the globe unmasking — all of them were just unmasking and then leaking out about anyone within the Trump campaign and the Trump transition that they could."
This is a controversy that emerged in the public eye back in the spring of 2017, when Nunes was the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. The congressman announced that he reviewed "dozens of reports" from the U.S. Intelligence Community about the incidental intelligence collection of communications involving Trump team members and informed the president about what he learned. The California Republican raised concerns about this information being too widely disseminated across the government, even as he stated that he believed the surveillance was legal and stressed it had nothing to do with Russian election interference.
Still, Democrats quickly decried Nunes's actions as a political cover for Trump, who weeks earlier had accused Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower. The House Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, Adam Schiff, said Nunes's actions cast "great doubt" on his ability to conduct an independent investigation into Russian election meddling and potential ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
Nunes agreed to step aside from the panel's investigation after facing allegations of mishandling classified information. The matter was scrutinized by the House Ethics Committee, which cleared the congressman of wrongdoing in December 2017.
To this day, Nunes faults the majority of the media for seizing on Russia-related leaks of classified information, including about Flynn, after they went "crazy" because Hillary Clinton lost the election.
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There is much more.

Some of the strangest requests for unmasking Flynn came from various ambassadors.  Nunes has been a real hero when it comes to fighting back against the Democrat coup attempts.  The Democrats attacked and underestimated him, but he has been proven right about what they were up to.

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