In an appearance on Fox News, the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward addressed the bombshell revelation Wednesday that new information came to the fore which allegedly shows that the Trump team, and potentially Trump himself, were swept up in surveillance and had their identities “unmasked.”

Woodward pointed out that if Obama officials are proven to have unmasked the identities, they could face jail time for the “gross violation.”

The Washington Examiner reported:

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said earlier that he had briefed Trump on new information, unrelated to an investigation into Russian activities, that suggested that several members of Trump’s transition team and perhaps Trump himself had their identities “unmasked” after their communications were intercepted by U.S. intelligence officials. The revelation is notable because identities of Americans are generally supposed to remain “masked” if American communications are swept up during surveillance of foreign individuals.

“You can learn all kinds of things from diplomats gossiping, because that’s what occurs. Under the rules, and they are pretty strict, it’s called minimization. You don’t name the American person who is being discussed,” Woodward said.

The Examiner reported: “He noted that there are about 20 people in the intelligence community who, for intelligence reasons, can order this ‘minimization’ be removed.”

“But the idea that there was intelligence value here is really thin,” Woodward said. “It’s, again, down the middle, it is not what Trump said, but this could be criminal on the part of people who decided, oh, let’s name these people.”

Woodward further noted that “under the rules, that name is supposed to be blanked out, and so you’ve got a real serious problem potentially of people in the Obama administration passing around this highly classified gossip.”

Leftists and those in the establishment have been in a tizzy ever since President Trump took to Twitter to allege that former President Barack Obama wiretapped him. After Trump’s allegation, the establishment scurried around trying to spin and argue semantics about what Trump alleged.

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Now here we are weeks later and the evidence is mounting to support what Trump said and what many of us have seen happening right in front of our eyes.

No matter how the Obama administration went about monitoring the Trump team, it’s clear that it happened. Some have claimed that because they allegedly did it in a round about way by doing legal surveillance it somehow negates what Trump alleged.

Not even close.

I would have been a bit surprised (but not completely) if Obama had been so brazen as to actually wiretap Trump directly. No, this round about way appears to do what I imagine they wanted it to. They could hide behind a legal wiretap and gather information.

This was likely a phishing mission. While they couldn’t use what they found, they could use it to find other things if they found anything, and the little bit they did find — by unmasking the names and leaking it to the press — they were able to do damage in the public sphere and push for firings, i.e. former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn…

In fact, this whole disturbing sabotage effort falls right in line with a report from the Washington Free Beacon that we covered yesterday.

There’s more and more information coming out that shows just how disturbing and banana republic-esque these sabotage efforts are.

With each bit that comes out, those that doubted Trump and mocked the “conspiracy theories” are finding their faces caked with egg …





