Pompeo sought flurry of unmaskings last spring

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Politico

State Department officials requested the unmasking of the identities of American citizens or permanent residents or companies in intelligence reports on at least 285 occasions during the Trump administration, with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo making at least 33 of those requests, records obtained by POLITICO show.

Pompeo, who was sworn in in April 2018, appears to have gone on an unmasking binge in late 2019 and early 2020. His first request came on August 23, 2019, and they seemed to accelerate thereafter, reaching a frequency of several per week in late April and May 2020, when the newly released summary ends.

The spring 2020 timeframe coincides with an aggressive effort by President Donald Trump, his aides and congressional Republicans to attack Obama administration officials for their use of the unmasking procedure in 2016 and 2017 as concerns grew about Russian interference in the U.S. presidential race.

A list of unmasking requests former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell sent to Congress of officials who’d requested unmasking of reports about retired Army Gen. Michael Flynn included then-Vice President Joe Biden. He sought the unmasking of a record containing Flynn’s name on January 12, 2017, eight days before Trump was sworn in.

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[CurtEastPoint]

1. What does 'unmasking' do and why do they want to do it?

[Miguelito Loveless]

3. Revealing the actual identities of sources

in reports, especially intelligence reports and law enforcement investigations.

[CurtEastPoint]

6. Thank you. Why? Just to be dicks?

[uncle ray]

7. it's also noteable because that former guy complained about unmasking

in response to the Mueller report like it was some nefarious action. like everything that comes out of his mouth, if he's complaining about something someone else did, it's because he is doing it too, for the wrong reasons.

[Miguelito Loveless]

8. Well, normally, it may be a matter of context

But it can be a dick move.

[Deep State Witch]

10. To find out what NSA and FBI know

about T*p's dealings with the Russians. Remember that they caught Flynn talking to the Russian ambassador through taps on the ambassador's phone - not Flynn's.

[Deep State Witch]

9. When Intelligence Reports are written

that contain information about U.S. persons or companies, they are referred to as "U.S. Person 1" or "U.S. Company 1" in order to mask their identity. This is due to the Church Commission rules that date back to the post-Watergate era. If a principal, such as SECSTATE or SECDEF needs to know the identity of the U.S. entity involved, they request that information to be disclosed ONLY TO THEM. Emphasis on the "Need to know" part. This is probably why T*p installed his lackey into the NSA Inspector General's office. All unmasking requests on NSA reporting has to go through the IG's office.

[Hekate]

2. Pompeo has ambitions

He is an intelligent fascist

[Captain Zero]

19. By Jan 6, 2021 Pompeo was 4th in line to Trump. moving to SOS from DOD was very much intentional.

If Pence, Pelosi and Grassley had ended up dead.
If the electoral votes had not been certified.
Trump would still not have been president on Jan 20. His presidency ended that day.

Mike Pompeo would have been president, right?
He is a very ambitious man.

[magicarpet]

4. Hyper Jesus Fascist,.. Dominionist,... Reconstructionist,..

... waiting for the rapture....

[Comfortably_Numb]

5. That bulbous bastard was one of the worst.. and in the drumph shitshow

you’ve really gotta suck bad to be in that group...

[DENVERPOPS]

11. Hey

how about us unmasking all the foreigner zillionaires and Foreign Governments donors to the Republicans and Trump?????????
And then unmasking all the U.S. Zillionaire Donors in this country that donated to the Republicans and Trump???????

Also a big bunch of DOJ Investigators should be going into the rank and file executives of the NRA for the past ten years and unmasking all of them by name.

This would make for great fun for us, and humiliation for all of them........

[Ford_Prefect]

12. BBBBBBBBut that's a sacred trust between governments and officials and corporations!

[DENVERPOPS]

17. EXACTY FP

AND THAT IS THE TEXTBOOK/DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF FASCISM........the merging of Government and Corporations

[Ford_Prefect]

18. Yes it is! Just imagine what would happen if people found out? Oh wait, didn't we just do that?

Isn't that why we just had a change of leadership in the White House?

[riversedge]

13. Does Trump still have his high security clearance??? There was a big hado a few months ago

but I have not seen any follow up

[Lars39]

16. Biden Bars Trump From Receiving Intelligence Briefings, Citing 'Erratic Behavior'

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/us/politics/biden-trump-intelligence-briefings.html

[Harker]

14. They have an anti-mask fetish. n/t

[lagomorph777]

15. And now PompousAhole is unmasked.

[ck4829]

20. K&R