Senator Chuck Grassley sent a letter to former National Security Advisor Susan Rice to ask her about an email she sent to herself on the last day of the Obama administration. It's quite an amazing email. Rice relates TO HERSELF that she was at a meeting a few weeks earlier with president Obama, the head of the FBI and senior Justice Department officials to discuss how the investigation into Trump-Russia should proceed.
Let's just stop here for a moment. In January of 2017, when this email was sent, Rice clearly knew the rules about sending classified information to a private email account. After all, the country had just spent a year learning all about those rules when Hillary Clinton broke them with her private email server. A discussion with the president, NSA, FBI director and DOJ leadership about an investigation of this sort is obviously classified. Indeed, the Grassley letter -- which quotes much of the email -- redacts a section which it says remains classified. How could Rice possibly send this classified information to her private email account? But let's get back to the main story.
Rice's email recounts a meeting at which Obama kept telling the FBI and DOJ just to do their jobs under their normal procedures. Indeed, from Rice's recounting of the meeting, there seems to be no reason for it to be held. Obama knew that the FBI would do its job. He also knew that the DOJ would do its job. There was no need to tell them again.
So why would Rice send this email? The simple answer is that Rice is creating a record. She wants a written document that she can point to so as to "prove" what Obama told the FBI and DOJ about Trump-Russia. Remember, Rice is a repeat offender when it comes to telling major lies. She's the one who went on five shows the Sunday after Benghazi to blame the attack there on a youtube video when she knew that it was really a terror attack. Rice also went on network TV to deny ever having "unmasked" Americans connected with the Trump campaign. Unmasking, of course, is having the intelligence agencies identify the names of Americans who are caught up in surveillance of other people. After saying she never did it, Rice later admitted that she did, in fact, unmask people, but claimed next that she had done nothing wrong. Simply put, Rice's word is meaningless; she's a liar. So Rice needed something to document her probably phony version of the Obama/FBI/DOJ meeting. It's the kind of meeting that the Democrats in Congress would call obstruction of justice if it had been president Trump rather than Obama involved.
This is just another manifestation of the improper involvement by Obama and his people in the investigation. Senator Grassley deserves kudos for following up on this. The FBI and DOJ certainly aren't doing that. It's also another reason why we need a second special prosecutor to investigate the Obama administration, FBI and DOJ conduct of the investigation into the Trump campaign.
Let's just stop here for a moment. In January of 2017, when this email was sent, Rice clearly knew the rules about sending classified information to a private email account. After all, the country had just spent a year learning all about those rules when Hillary Clinton broke them with her private email server. A discussion with the president, NSA, FBI director and DOJ leadership about an investigation of this sort is obviously classified. Indeed, the Grassley letter -- which quotes much of the email -- redacts a section which it says remains classified. How could Rice possibly send this classified information to her private email account? But let's get back to the main story.
Rice's email recounts a meeting at which Obama kept telling the FBI and DOJ just to do their jobs under their normal procedures. Indeed, from Rice's recounting of the meeting, there seems to be no reason for it to be held. Obama knew that the FBI would do its job. He also knew that the DOJ would do its job. There was no need to tell them again.
So why would Rice send this email? The simple answer is that Rice is creating a record. She wants a written document that she can point to so as to "prove" what Obama told the FBI and DOJ about Trump-Russia. Remember, Rice is a repeat offender when it comes to telling major lies. She's the one who went on five shows the Sunday after Benghazi to blame the attack there on a youtube video when she knew that it was really a terror attack. Rice also went on network TV to deny ever having "unmasked" Americans connected with the Trump campaign. Unmasking, of course, is having the intelligence agencies identify the names of Americans who are caught up in surveillance of other people. After saying she never did it, Rice later admitted that she did, in fact, unmask people, but claimed next that she had done nothing wrong. Simply put, Rice's word is meaningless; she's a liar. So Rice needed something to document her probably phony version of the Obama/FBI/DOJ meeting. It's the kind of meeting that the Democrats in Congress would call obstruction of justice if it had been president Trump rather than Obama involved.
This is just another manifestation of the improper involvement by Obama and his people in the investigation. Senator Grassley deserves kudos for following up on this. The FBI and DOJ certainly aren't doing that. It's also another reason why we need a second special prosecutor to investigate the Obama administration, FBI and DOJ conduct of the investigation into the Trump campaign.
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