(whispers) What’s Kim Jong’s excuse?

Elected.

The utter hate that Dowd has for Hillary goes back decades. It’s obsessive and weirdly so.

Well, the employee said, “I want that.” And United Airlines asked, “Are you a 10 year-old girl wearing leggings?” And when the employee said no, United decided to revoke the passenger’s ticket with extreme prejudice.

Two things:

Susan Rice, like Eric Holder, is red meat for the far right. It’s like they were stand-ins for Obama in their minds, people they could attack with near impunity where they occasionally faced backlash for attacking Obama. So Susan Rice’s name being thrown out there is pure a Bannon move, trying to appeal to the…

It’s not funny, they’re assholes who latched on to something shiny that their idiot followers can scream out like BENGHAZI and EMAILS while the real investigation doesn’t happen. They even managed to coin a nice simple term like “UNMASKING” for their morons to shout to the heavens. It’ll meme well too, which is…

She doesn’t need the conversations to pertain to illegal activity to request an unmasking. It could even be a question of ethics, where something said may be fine from a private citizen but not fine coming from a government employee. Legality has nothing to do with the process when it comes to unmasking.

Grasping at straws, basically. There have been plenty of things I dislike about handling of intelligence when it comes to Obama and the NSA, but in this case, she was just doing her job. They are pathetically desperate to get people to look the other way.

If Boris is heard on the phone saying “It would be valuable to us if sanctions against glorious fatherland were to disappear”, the legality is dependent on whether he is talking to his cousin Yuri who runs a borscht cart in Queens or to Michael Flynn.

This is not difficult to understand.

Uh, sorry, no that’s not how that works. She didn’t personally unmask them. She requested they be unmasked, but she could have been denied if the intelligence agency deemed it unnecessary. Since they didn’t, stand to reason, she had a legit purpose. Maybe learn how the process works before forming an opinion.

Nope. Try not to be stupid on the internet. We can all see you.

Wow. That tin foil hat is getting too tight. Let some air in!

That’s not how it works. The National Security Advisor is nor part of the law enforcement system. She does not need prima facie evidence of a crime to request to see the names. Without knowing the names (and possible positions) of the people who were caught on the transcripts, she has no way of knowing whether there…

Rapists complaining about their victims testifying against them in court.

“unmasking” is such a loaded word good for conspiracy theories.

Shhh… Shhh… Calm down. You’re not making any sense. Typical of most conservatives, you’re overly emotional right now and I’ll need you to collect your thoughts and reply back when you’re not so upset.

But according to the records, there were no such illegal activity being discussed. Hence, her requests were illegal.

Sure thing Boris. Don’t forget to kill moose and squirrel!

It was the fact that she unmasked them with no proof of illegal activity. A fact that shows her actions were illegal and politically motivated and will of course be conveniently overlooked by liberal media.