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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (23259)	4/5/2017 6:53:48 PM
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"And remember, innocent Americans are supposed to be protected, not unmasked for the entire intelligence community to see" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. This Is EXACTLY Who Was Behind Susan Rice’s Unmasking OrderApril 4, 2017 By TFPP Writer 8 Comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kimberly Morin reports that it was probably no surprise to find out Obama’s failed national security adviser Susan Rice is somehow behind the unmasking of Trump transition team members. Rice is known for lying on demand with a straight face. It seems that more and more keeps coming out about Rice’s involvement with the entire debacle that began as an investigation to see if Russia interfered in the presidential election, but has turned into a three-ring circus. It seems Democrats are actually the ring leaders of this circus, not Putin. The Daily Caller is reporting that Rice actually asked for and kept a detailed spreadsheet of phone calls intercepted between Trump and foreign nationals: “What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. Rice were detailed spreadsheets of intercepted phone calls with unmasked Trump associates in perfectly legal conversations with individuals,” diGenova told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group Monday. “The overheard conversations involved no illegal activity by anybody of the Trump associates, or anyone they were speaking with,” diGenova said. “In short, the only apparent illegal activity was the unmasking of the people in the calls.” Other official sources with direct knowledge and who requested anonymity confirmed to TheDCNF diGenova’s description of surveillance reports Rice ordered one year before the 2016 presidential election. It appears, if these reports are correct, that the Obama Administration was literally ‘spying’ on the Trump campaign much longer than previously thought. Sure, Trump wasn’t the intended target (wink, wink, nod, nod), but the results of the surveillance of foreign nationals seemed to provide information specifically regarding Trump; the Trump campaign and the Trump transition team. The question is why? It obviously did nothing to benefit Hillary Clinton or help her win, although that may have been the original intent. And remember, innocent Americans are supposed to be protected, not unmasked for the entire intelligence community to see. If all these reports are true and verifiable with internal government sources, how is it that people haven’t already been arrested, especially Susan Rice? Democrats have continually tried to make claims about ‘Russian interference,’ but it seems like the only actual interference has come from the Democrat party and their partners in crime, the lame stream media.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (23259)	4/6/2017 1:05:33 PM
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KABOOM!! lol-> Republicans invoke ‘nuclear option’ to help get Gorsuch confirmed By Marisa Schultz April 6, 2017 \| 12:46pm \| Updated WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans invoked the “nuclear option” Thursday, overturning the body’s rules so Neil Gorsuch could be confirmed to the Supreme Court with a simple majority vote. The vote — entirely along party lines — was 52 to make the change and 48 against. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the change — from 60 to 51 votes — was necessary to break a Democratic filibuster intended to block the Colorado appellate judge. “This will be the first –and last – partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nomination,” McConnell said of the history-making step. “The nuclear option means the end of a long history of consensus on Supreme Court nominations,” griped Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer. The extreme move was teed up shortly after 11:30 am when the Senate voted 55-45 to end debate, failing to advance President Trump’s first high court nominee with the minimum 60 votes necessary. Four Democrats joined Republicans: Sens. Joe Manchin (W.V.); Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.); Joe Donnelly (Ind.) and Michael Bennet (Colo.). Falling short of the 60 votes needed, McConnell moved to change the rules for Supreme Court nominees to 51. “Our Democratic colleagues have done something today that is unprecedented in the history of the Senate,” McConnell said. “Unfortunately, it has brought us to this point. We need to restore the norms and traditions of the Senate and get past this unprecedented, partisan filibuster.” Republicans blamed the “radical move” on the Democrats’ unwillingness to accept Trump as the president. “This isn’t really about the nominee anyway,” McConnell said before the vote. “The opposition to this particular nominee is more about the man that nominated him and the party he represents than the nominee himself.” Schumer said the real extreme option was when McConnell refused to even allow President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, a hearing. The blame falls on Republicans’ shoulders, he said. “We believe what Republicans did to Merrick Garland is worse than a filibuster,” Schumer said. “…These past few weeks we Democrats have given Judge Gorsuch a fair process, something Merrick Garland was denied.” Gorsuch heads to a final vote in the Senate Friday, where he’s expected to pass with a majority of votes. He’d become the ninth Supreme Court justice, filling the vacancy left left by the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016. Both parties bemoaned the breakdown of the Senate and worried the elimination of the 60-vote threshold will lead to more partisan justices. Democrats under Sen. Harry Reid deployed the nuclear option in November 2013 under Obama to get his lower-court nominations approved but had maintained the 60-vote rule for Supreme Court nominees. In a last-ditch effort to avoid going nuclear, Schumer put forward a motion to postpone the nomination vote to April 24 – after the two-week Easter recess – to allow both sides and Trump to chart a path forward. That vote failed 48-52 in a party-line division. “In a post-nuclear world, if the Senate and the presidency are in the hands of the same party, there’s no incentive to even speak to the Senate minority,” Schumer said. “That’s a recipe for more conflict and bad blood between the parties, not less.” FILED UNDER DEMOCRATS , FILIBUSTER , GOP , NEIL GORSUCH , REPUBLICANS , SUPREME COURT SHARE THIS ARTICLE: Facebook Twitter Google LinkedIn Email Copy READ NEXT Steve Bannon's apparently not going down without a fight