(05-19-2020 10:44 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Amazing that all those super duper intelligence people in the US Treasury under Obama were seeking unmasking requests -- on Flynn, on various Trump administration officials, on members of Congress.......

Yep, no smoke here. I am sure there is a real reason why Treasury officials are dipping their hands into NatSec dealings.

One has to wonder not just at the requests, but htf Treasury knew to request such unmasks......

https://theohiostar.com/2020/05/18/exclu...tleblower/

I find it amazingly illustrative that the number of unmasking requests tripled in the last 4 years of the Obama administration.

Also, kind of uncanny coincidence that this action increased in scope under the administration of the person that won his first seat through an illegal unmasking of judicial records. The Chicago way, brought to the national scene.

I would posit that Obama crowd did their utmost to weaponize the levers of government across the board.

So the Treasury implements financial sanctions on foreign actors, and Russia was being actively sanctioned for the Ukraine mess, and Russia was sanctioned by the Treasury for the election meddling (https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center...229.aspx).

So if the Treasury's intelligence arm received information that Russian representatives were talking to "U.S. Person 1" about those exact sanctions, there seems to be a good reason for them to be interested in who U.S. Person 1 is.

Or do you think the Treasury, which implements the sanctions, has no reason to want to know who was talking to a Russian government official about the implementation of the sanctions they had just implemented?