Jesus. Our intel people surveil foreigners (friends and adversaries) as a course of business. She was NSA. Hello?Professor Tiger wrote:
I think I'll go with Charles Colson. He was "Special Counsel" to Nixon, pretty close to Rice's National Security Advisor. He didn't do the actual wiretapping, he just approved it. Likewise Rice - she didn't do the actual wiretapping. She got the Intelligence community to do it for her. That's something that even Liddy and the Plumbers couldn't imagine in their wildest dreams back in their day.
Colson also leaked the secret FBI files on Daniel Elsberg in an attempt to discredit the Pentagon Papers and the Vietnam War. Rice unmasked and leaked the secret identies of Trump associates all around the government, and eventually to the public, to discredit Trump and his associates.
Anybody who isn't Fox/Rush/Hannity say it was her job to examine those intel reports and to learn the identities of U.S. citizens as warranted. The 'leaking' accusation is unproved and comes from a highly questionable source.
If lying on national tv were a crime, Trump would be in much more trouble than Rice, and you know I'm right.Colson obstructed justice by lying to investigators. Rice just lies and lies on national tv, first about Benghazi, later that Bowe Berdahl "served with honor and distinction," and recently that she "knew nothing" about Trump being surveilled.
Maybe Rice will become a born-again Christian too.
Once Michael Flynn gets his immunity deal, and then Manafort and Paige get theirs - this lame effort to deflect attention to the whistleblowers will dissolve into nothingness.