Susan Rice's Email to Herself Is Declassified

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Susan Rice’s Email to Herself Is Declassified

May 19, 2020 at 3:32 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 100 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/05/19/susan-rice-email-declassified/

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The email that National Security Adviser Susan Rice sent herself on the day of President Trump’s inauguration — and has since drawn intense scrutiny from Republicans — has been declassified.

Politico: “It says that then-FBI Director James Comey worried about sharing classified information with the Trump team because of incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn’s frequent conversations with the Russian ambassador, but that Comey had no knowledge of Flynn sharing classified information with him.”

The email noted that President Obama wanted to be sure “every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities ‘by the book.'”

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[spanone]

1. ⭐️⭐️⭐️K&R ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[GusFring]

2. It's already a shit show on twitter. Ted Cruz and Nunez believes this was a coup attempt.

And some here refuse to believe this is turning into 2016 all over again. All because Obama wont defend himself. It's the same approach Hillary took. You have to fight back against these people.

[angrychair]

3. So in other words

Trump is a liar and "obamagate" is a worthless distraction meant to lather up the mouth-breathing Republicans.

[demmiblue]

4. Original article:

Trump administration declassifies full Susan Rice email sent on Inauguration Day

On the day of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, outgoing national security adviser Susan Rice sent herself an email that has since drawn intense scrutiny from Republicans.

Now the full text of the email has been declassified, and POLITICO reviewed it. It says that then-FBI Director James Comey worried about sharing classified information with the Trump team due to incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn’s frequent conversations with the Russian ambassador, but that Comey had no knowledge of Flynn sharing classified information with the envoy.

Republicans have seized on the document as potential evidence that the outgoing president had ordered the FBI to spy on the new administration, as President Trump has alleged. And they have raised questions about the "unusual" nature of Rice memorializing the conversation in an email to herself, suggesting that in warning Comey to proceed "by the book," Obama was implying that top law enforcement officials had done the opposite.

The email, most of which was already declassified, describes a Jan. 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting that followed up on an intelligence briefing about Russian interference in the 2016 election. Attendees included then-President Barack Obama; Comey; Sally Yates, who was the acting attorney general; Vice President Joe Biden; and Rice, who was Flynn's predecessor in the job.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/19/michael-flynn-full-susan-rice-email-sent-on-trumps-inauguration-day-267998

[Yavin4]

5. There's more in her email...

"If Republicans are reading this in three years, they can all go fuck themselves. "

[11 Bravo]

15. With a barbed wire dildo.

[jls4561]

6. This is puzzling me.

So, obviously the unelected orange one is declassifying the email because he thinks it will hurt the those who were wary of the incoming gang of thugs. But the email seems to me to say "Beware this gang of thugs!"

So this hurts the reputation of the Obama administration...how?

[Orangepeel]

9. to any half reasonable person, this makes Obama look good

he handled it exactly as he should have. but trump supporters will just say "he knew!" like that means something.

[FakeNoose]

7. Just to save you the trouble of downloading, here it is

This will amount to exactly nothing, because there is NO SCANDAL here:

[Docreed2003]

8. Thanks for this!

[Docreed2003]

10. K&R

So Obama and his team acted in an entirely appropriate fashion and Trump and his minions are crying foul because they've been exposed...got it. To Trump, any exposure of his vile corruptness is a crime and "corrupt"

I cannot begin to imagine what that transition must have been like for President Obama and his team, knowing just how dirty the players in the incoming administration were.

[Progressive dog]

11. So president Obama told Comey to obey all laws

and rules, I can see where that would be a scandal to the criminals in the white house now.

[UTUSN]

12. K&R

[UTUSN]

13. K&R

[Mike 03]

14. Kick

and rec

[Ilsa]

16. Kick & Rec. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. Remember, Jared Kushner wanted to set up a secure line with the Russian embassy for Flynn

before the inauguration - Dec 1st:

On December 1, 2016, Kushner met with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Trump’s now-disgraced National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was also present at the meeting.

At this meeting, the Washington Post reported back in May, Kushner had asked Kislyak if it would be possible to set up a secure communications line between the Trump camp and Russia inside the Russian Embassy in Washington. The Post reported that this was “an apparent move to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring, according to US officials briefed on intelligence reports.”

In his statement on Monday, Kushner confirms that this meeting took place. He also confirms that he asked Kislyak about communicating through a secure line at the embassy. But he says it was a one-time proposal for receiving information about the Syrian conflict during the transition and denies that there was any effort to hide communications between the Trump camp and Russia from US snooping:

I believed developing a thoughtful approach on Syria was a very high priority given the ongoing humanitarian crisis, and I asked if they had an existing communications channel at his embassy we could use where they would be comfortable transmitting the information they wanted to relay to General Flynn. The Ambassador said that would not be possible and so we all agreed that we would receive this information after the Inauguration.

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But this is a very different account of the meeting than what appeared in the Post. A number of US intelligence officials, according to the Post, seemed to believe the effort was a far more ambitious attempt to hide the Trump team’s communications from the US’s own spies. This would be incredibly nefarious: It would suggest that there was some information Kushner wanted to share with the Russians (or vice versa) but did not want anyone in the US government, let alone the American public, to know about.

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/7/24/16019456/jared-kushner-russia-letter-statement