Official who unmasked Mike Flynn is ‘high up’ in the intelligence community

  One thing that seems to have been lost by the mainstream media during this Russian hacking scandal and investigation is the fact that several American citizens were illegally “unmasked” by someone in the government. (Of course this means they were surveilled–intentionally or unintentionally.)

  While all of the hoopla over Devin Nunes’s trip to the White House to gather information has been over his ill-advised press conference before showing that new  information to the rest of the committee investigating the scandal, we are beginning to learn more about what was contained in the information and it has the potential to be devastating.

  Here is more:

The U.S. intelligence official who “unmasked,” or exposed, the names of multiple private citizens affiliated with the Trump team is someone “very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world,” a source told Fox News on Friday. 

Intelligence and House sources with direct knowledge of the disclosure of classified names told Fox News that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., now knows who is responsible — and that person is not in the FBI.

For a private citizen to be “unmasked,” or named, in an intelligence report is extremely rare. Typically, the American is a suspect in a crime, is in danger or has to be named to explain the context of the report.

“The main issue in this case, is not only the unmasking of these names of private citizens, but the spreading of these names for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security or an investigation into Russia’s interference in the U.S. election,” a congressional source close to the investigation told Fox News. 

“Unmasking is not unprecedented, but unmasking for political purposes … specifically of Trump transition team members … is highly suspect and questionable,” an intelligence source told Fox News. “Opposition by some in the intelligence agencies who were very connected to the Obama and Clinton teams was strong. After Trump was elected, they decided they were going to ruin his presidency by picking them off one by one.”

  So somebody not in the FBI, but close to both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, “unmasked” people who were involved in Donald Trump’s transition team in order to hurt the incoming President–at least that is what this one person is claiming.

  But on top of the illegality of that this is more proof that Donald Trump was right about his team being under surveillance even if it was not direct, which has also been called into question with the report Barack Obama may have used legitimate foreign surveillance as cover to spy on the Trump team.

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