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To: Thomas M. who wrote (164282)	5/16/2020 12:16:57 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Recommended By bentway Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 357965

"Unmasking requests are rarely requested and made infrequently by non-career political appointees" Rarely means 26 times a day. Q&A: What does 'unmasking' someone in an intel report mean ... federalnewsnetwork.com 3 days ago - “Literally hundreds of times a year across multiple administrations. ... The 9,529 requests in 2017 grew to 16,721 in 2018 and 10,012 last year.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (164282)	5/16/2020 2:13:24 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 357965

The ‘Unmasking’ List Is Bad News for Michael Flynn Political Wireby Taegan Goddard Former FBI counterintelligence agent Asha Rangappa tells Vanity Fair that contrary to the Trumpian line, the volume of unmasking requests related to Michael Flynn’s behavior “is a bad look for him—not the Obama administration.” Said Rangappa: “This does not help Flynn. This is a long list of names of people across disparate areas of government who independently felt that the intelligence reports they were reading were so alarming that they needed to know—without knowing, by the way, who it was beforehand—[who] the person was that was engaging in that communication or activity.” Driving this point home, Rangappa asked of Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell: “Why not go ahead and disclose the underlying intelligence report?”