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2020-05-15 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Dan Bongino explains 'unmasking, reverse targeting, incidental collection.'

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 MSNBC has shown the talking points the left is going with. Tens of thousands of unmasking every year. This is nothing.

Does anyone know how many unmasking a year are requested by politicians vs spies who might have business doing so.

Does anyone ever really review those unmaskings to find out how many are truly legitimate and how many are spying on the ex-girlfriend type things?

Posted by ruprecht 2020-05-15 08:36|| 2020-05-15 08:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Some low level bureaucrat could be perusing transcripts of all you phone conversations as we speak.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-05-15 12:50|| 2020-05-15 12:50|| Front Page Top

#3 So you gotta be careful what you say on the phone.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-05-15 12:51|| 2020-05-15 12:51|| Front Page Top

#4 And we thought the Chicoms were bad.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-05-15 12:52|| 2020-05-15 12:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Does anyone know how many unmasking a year are requested by politicians vs spies who might have business doing so?

The answer's probably somewhere in this DNI "Statistical Transparency Report Regarding the Use of National Security Authorities" dated April 2020

Posted by Lex 2020-05-15 13:18|| 2020-05-15 13:18|| Front Page Top

#6 The key stat is (per John Solomon and Sara Carter) the "threefold increase in searches during Ibana's second term."

Solomon's latest is here.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-15 13:21|| 2020-05-15 13:21|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Good catch

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-15 14:01|| 2020-05-15 14:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Here are the numbers for "FISA Section 702" inquiries from 2012-2016 -- per J.E.Dyer "These are the queries that enabled desk jockeys at the federal agencies and the NSC staff to view USPI [US person information] – without having to record a formal unmasking request."

2013: ..9,500
2014: 17,500
2015: 23,800
2016: 30,355

The number of these “non-contents,” search queries under FISA Section 702 is massive.

This was run out of the White House and it went far, far beyond Flynn.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-15 14:15|| 2020-05-15 14:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Frank could you please post the link above to blogger/retired naval officer JE Dyer's lengthy description of the 702 data mining operation?

Tia,
L.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-15 14:17|| 2020-05-15 14:17|| Front Page Top

#10 The "unmasking" stuff is a sideshow.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-15 14:19|| 2020-05-15 14:19|| Front Page Top

#11 Link

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-15 14:22|| 2020-05-15 14:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Thanks!

Posted by Lex 2020-05-15 14:32|| 2020-05-15 14:32|| Front Page Top

#13 YW, no prob

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-15 15:02|| 2020-05-15 15:02|| Front Page Top

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