Getting mighty hot around this woman. Susan Rice not looking real good either
It's definitely getting interesting
So, the Cliffs version of that situation for those that don't know is that it leaked that Susan Rice "unmasked" Trump administration officials from FBI wiretaps on Russian agents. What that means is they were not the target of the wiretap but were incidentally caught up in them through being in conversations with the targets. It is typically protocol to not "unmask" the incidental third parties unless it's necessary for national security. The thing about that is they're given a wide latitude for what has "national intelligence value", and it will be virtually impossible to prove that this doesn't fall into that box, from a legal standpoint. But the process is supposedly well documented, so we should know WHY she requested the information if this is investigated further, which I suspect it will be.
In the very least, it APPEARS to be highly unethical to do this to an opposition party during an election. We know that SOMEONE leaked this to the media, hence the Flynn/Russia hysteria we're currently seeing. It's possible it wasn't someone at the DNC/Obama Admin/Hillary Campaign, but I find that unlikely given what we know now.
We're getting to a point now where it's going to be clear that one party or the other is corrupt as fuck and should suffer consequences. Given what we know about John Podesta's emails, Donna Brazille leaking CNN debate questions to Hillary, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz actively sabotaging Bernie Sanders' campaign in favor of Hillary, Loretta Lynch's secret tarmac meeting with Bill during Hillary's FBI investigation, Lois Lerner's hard drive crash and backup tape erasure...let's just say it wouldn't surprise me if this was purely political and highly unethical as well. If that's the case, the DNC is every bit as guilty of "hacking the election", to use their words, as they are accusing Russia of doing.
BUT
There is also the chance at this point that what they were collecting against the Russians really DID implicate Trump officials in some sort of collusion with the Russian government, in which case impeachment should absolutely be on the table.
Still too early to know which is true for sure, and I guarantee you every single Republican is dead nuts convinced of the former and every single Democrat is dead nuts convinced of the latter.
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