[Daily Caller] MSNBC host Chris Matthews and MSNBC contributor David Corn believe they know why Republicans have a problem with President Barack Obama’s former National Security Advisor Susan Rice ‐ her gender and her skin color.
In discussing how Republicans reacted to Rice, who it was revealed this week asked for names of Trump campaign officials to be unmasked in intelligence reports, telling conflicting stories in the past few weeks, Matthews observed, "Notice it’s always a female? Just a thought."
"By the way," Matthews, whose wife Kathleen is interim Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party, declared, "this is all after the election. This wasn’t politics."
Corn later chimed in to defend Rice and saying, " at the end of the day, we need some element of decency." He then continued to say, "So they are making her, you know, basically they’re defaming her without any reason to do so because she’s a woman. Maybe because she’s a black woman."
When Democrats criticized Condi Rice, was it because Condi was black?
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Matthews says she is being criticized because she's a black and female. No, no, no Chris, it's because she is a liar. And no Chris, I'm not criticizing you because you're white, it's because you are and idiot and pretending to be a news hound and common-tater.
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Is ANYONE in this country still falling for this stupid bullshit?
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You know they are way in the wrong when the race/gender card gets pulled.
Sorry fucknose, you have used that too much and have lost all the currency it had. Only the left loons still buy into it. The rest of us are done with your lying, racist, sexist and crooked asses.
[Free Beacon] Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) slammed former Obama administration National Security Advisor Susan Rice on Tuesday, suggesting she brought a plague on the Obama administration's foreign policy.
Cotton appeared on conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt's radio show on Tuesday, where he said that Rice was the "Typhoid Mary of the Obama administration foreign policy," according to Mediaite.
Hewitt asked Cotton (around 3:40) to comment on Rice denying claims that she and other Obama administration officials used intelligence for political purposes against the Trump transition team. According to a Bloomberg report on Monday, Rice allegedly sought on several occasions to identify the names of Trump associates in intelligence reports.
"Susan Rice is the Typhoid Mary of the Obama administration foreign policy," Cotton said. "Every time something went wrong, she seemed to turn up in the middle of it."
Cotton cited several controversial incidents involving Rice, suggesting she was plagued by controversy.
"Whether it was these allegations of improper unmasking and potential improper surveillance, whether it was Benghazi, or many of the other fiascos of the Obama administration," Cotton added.
"Typhoid Mary" was the title used to refer to an Irish immigrant named Mary Mallon who infected others with Salmonella typhi after she denied that she was sick.
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The new Camelot is growing. Fashion industry is the start. Look at the impact on China now "The ‘Goddess’ Yi Wan Ka: Ivanka Trump Is a Hit in China" This will be spectacular. The media here are dead. The left here are mere Zombies. The businessman with the true heart of an American teaches the politician how to represent the people.
[TWITCHY] ... women working for Warren were paid just 71 cents for every dollar paid to men during the 2016 fiscal year, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.
The median annual earnings for women staffers, $52,750, was more than $20,000 less than the median annual earnings for men, $73,750, according to the analysis of publicly available Senate data.
When calculated using average salaries rather than median, the pay gap expands to just over $26,051, or about 31 percent.
Consistent with previous Free Beacon analyses of Senate salary data, only full-time staffers who were employed for the entire period in question were included in the calculations.
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But gave them all the moccasin leather they could chew.
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But, of course, as a senator she gets equal pay with her male colleagues.
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#4 Did they take into account 'educational achievement'?
That, along with job experience are what the stats weenies call "confounding variables", things you need to control for or eliminate lest they render your analysis useless.
I'm conflicted here. On one hand, I like the Reverse Alinsky - make them live up to their own rules. On the other, I hate to see BS numbers tossed around. Admittedly, the gravy on top is a chance to mock Fauxahontas.
[Daily Caller] Update: In response to a question Tuesday from NBC News reporter Andrea Mitchell, former Obama White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice denied that she "prepared" spreadsheets of surveilled telephone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides. The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group, however, reported that Rice "ordered" the spreadsheets to be produced.
In addition, former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova, one of TheDCNF’s sources, said Tuesday in response to Rice that her denial "would come as quite a surprise to the government officials who have reviewed dozens of those spreadsheets."
Former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice ordered U.S. spy agencies to produce "detailed spreadsheets" of legal phone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides when he was running for president, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova.
"What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. Rice were detailed spreadsheets of intercepted phone calls with unmasked Trump associates in perfectly legal conversations with individuals," diGenova told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group Monday.
Bottom line: Andrew McCarthy over at National Review - "The thing to bear in mind is that the White House does not do investigations. Not criminal investigations, not intelligence investigations.
Remember that."
So the spreadsheets, they went where and for what purpose ?
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SusanRice ordered U.S. spy agencies to produce "detailed spreadsheets" of legal phone calls
So when left-wing stormtroopers show up at a someone's house it is another "unexpected" coincidence?
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Presumably, these "spreadsheets" had a "TO" column and "FROM" column with names of who called whom.
diGenova said. “In short, the only apparent illegal activity was the unmasking of the people in the calls.”--and the dissemination of that info throughout the intelligence community due to Obama's order for later use in creating difficulty for a Trump administration.
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Aw come on, Rice probably didn't even know Trump was running for president. Pure coincidence.
And it's perfectly legal and ethical, too. The NYT wouldn't complain if the current NSA got a similar spreadsheet on Clinton's contacts with Russia.
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So Rice did not prepare the spreadsheets herself, she merely ordered them to be prepared. Not quite the same thing I guess but close enough, isn't it? My biggest problem here is I can't trust Andrea Mitchell to ask the pertinent questions in a case like this. Mitchell will be more interested in framing the interview in a way that makes it sound like Rice is innocent while avoiding the tough questions like this: "Exactly why did you order the unmasking? What was it about these phone calls in which no illegal activities were discussed that was so interesting? Huh?"
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Akin to "I didn't put people in the ovens, I just ordered it?"
Less than two weeks before sources said it was Susan Rice who requested to unmask the names of Trump associates caught up in sensitive intelligence reports, former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser said she knew “nothing about” surveillance allegations.
Rice told PBS on March 22 that she “was not aware of any orders given to disseminate that information.” She did skirt the issues of whether she herself unmasked or disseminated information outright. Rice also limited her remarks to Trump’s debunked early March tweet claiming a wiretap of Trump Tower and vague remarks made by House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes.
“I know nothing about this,” Rice said at the time. “I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today … So today, I really don’t know to what Chairman Nunes was referring. But he said that whatever he was referring to was a legal, lawful surveillance and that it was potentially incidental collection on American citizens.”
Fox News reported that the names, once unmasked, were widely disseminated through the intelligence community – and to some in the Obama White House.
Rice’s remarks on March 22 focus on the strict legality of the issue -- instead of whether the unmasking was appropriate or of intelligence value. Since Monday's reporting, her defenders have downplayed the significance of her apparent requests.
“What I know is this ... If the intelligence community professionals decide that there’s some value, national security, foreign policy or otherwise in unmasking someone, they will grant those requests,” former Obama State Department spokeswoman and Fox News contributor Marie Harf said on "The First 100 Days.” “And we have seen no evidence ... that there was partisan political notice behind this and we can’t say that unless there’s actual evidence to back that up.”
Harf stressed that just because Rice requested names doesn't mean she leaked them either.
The identities of U.S. citizens collected during surveillance on foreign targets are supposed to be shielded unless they are unmasked by a top official, ostensibly for national security reasons. When I worked in the intel community they wouldn't have been able to. They were noted as [US Citizen] upon creation of the report. Ditto: Collection on US Persons (USP) by the intelligence community was verboten. Anything dealing with USP was the domain of the FBI.
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Trump’s debunked early March tweet claiming a wiretap of Trump Tower
Debunked? Not the way I understand it. Possibly a little imprecise because all the technical details are not stated but the fact that communications from and within the Trump campaign were monitored and then distributed seems pretty definite. That this was not exactly physical wire tapping is a semantic dodge.
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[Daily Caller] MSNBC host Chris Matthews and MSNBC contributor David Corn believe they know why Republicans have a problem with President Barack Obama’s former National Security Advisor Susan Rice ‐ her gender and her skin color.
