The line between lawful unmasking and political spying — and what comes next
"Investigators looking for possible criminality will likely examine leaks, emails, discussions, and timing of unmaskings."
By Last Updated: May 14, 2020 - 11:29am
"When my colleague Sara Carter and I broke the story in spring 2017 about a three-fold increase in the unmasking of Americans' identities in spy intercepts during President Obama's second term, the immediate fear was that a limited tool created for intelligence analysts had been become so widespread for political appointees that it might be used to target political enemies."
"Those fears were realized on Wednesday when documents declassified by acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Ric Grenell and made public by two senators showed more than a dozen Obama political appointees sought to unmask more than two dozen intercepted conversations involving then-incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. And that occurred in just the two months between when President Trump won the election and he took office."
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