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Sally Yates reveals the real reasons why Mike Flynn was unmasked in intel reports
Sally Yates reveals the real reasons why Mike Flynn was unmasked in intel reports
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/sally-yates-reveals-the-real-reasons-why-mike-flynn-was-unmasked-in-intel-reports/
Yates, the former acting attorney general, told The New Yorker those reports included classified information about underlying evidence against Flynn, then the national security adviser to President Donald Trump.
“I oftentimes would get intel reports that included the name of the U.S. person,” Yates said. “Not because I or anybody else had asked for it to be unmasked, but because that intelligence only made sense if you knew who the identity of the U.S. person was, and that’s an exception to the minimization requirements.”
She declined to reveal the evidence, because it’s classified, but she said an American’s name might also be unmasked for another reason in such reports.
“If it’s evidence of a crime,” Yates said. “This idea that there’s this dramatic unmasking of a name — in my experience, that never happened.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/sally-yates-reveals-the-real-reasons-why-mike-flynn-was-unmasked-in-intel-reports/
Yates, the former acting attorney general, told The New Yorker those reports included classified information about underlying evidence against Flynn, then the national security adviser to President Donald Trump.
“I oftentimes would get intel reports that included the name of the U.S. person,” Yates said. “Not because I or anybody else had asked for it to be unmasked, but because that intelligence only made sense if you knew who the identity of the U.S. person was, and that’s an exception to the minimization requirements.”
She declined to reveal the evidence, because it’s classified, but she said an American’s name might also be unmasked for another reason in such reports.
“If it’s evidence of a crime,” Yates said. “This idea that there’s this dramatic unmasking of a name — in my experience, that never happened.”