Remember Obama aide and former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes? The former president’s young speechwriter and policy-crafter, who devised much of the disastrous Iranian nuclear deal (despite having no formal foreign relations education), may have been responsible (or knows who is responsible) for the “unmasking” of Americans’ names in a quest to inflict political damage on the Trump campaign last year.
Both Rhodes’ and former National Security Advisor Susan Rice’s names have surfaced as prime candidates for people who ordered this unmasking (the revealing of citizens’ names whose conversations or other records were recorded by the National Security Agency) for political purposes to benefit the Democrats in the election of 2016.
Under Obama-era programs, much archiving of American emails, phone conversations, text messages and Internet chats was done in the name of “keeping our country safe” from terrorism and other defense threats under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and other spy programs.
But as Hannity and Ingraham point out, the use of this intelligence capability for political purposes is explicitly against the law, and any violations need to be taken extremely seriously because they have the capacity to turn our government against its citizens and transform our nation into a police state.
Watch as Ingraham tells Hannity about how and why these actions may have been illegal and what needs to be done next as regards Rhodes, Rice and possibly others.
