I tell you what, this Susan Rice story just keeps getting better! Deanna gave us the initial rundown here. Jodi posed five very excellent questions here. After Jodi’s post ran early this morning, Susan Rice appeared on MSNBC.
Did you get that? “I leaked nothing to nobody.” That is one very ungrammatical non-denial!
It's a good thing Susan Rice has never lied during an NBC News interview before.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 4, 2017
Yep! Oh wait, let’s not forget to include PBS in her liar liar pants on fire schtick.
This is laughable! #SusanRice just said last week on @PBS "I know nothing about this." Today she sure seems to know a lot…. #Liar
— Lisa Jakub (@jakub_lisa) April 4, 2017
We should also consider this:
Among English speakers, "I leaked nothing to nobody" means "I leaked something to everybody."https://t.co/BIVDKYFwow
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) April 4, 2017
Well Duh! In fact, this story gets even better. Cue the spreadsheets!
Former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice ordered U.S. spy agencies to produce “detailed spreadsheets” of legal phone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides when he was running for president, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova.
“What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. Rice were detailed spreadsheets of intercepted phone calls with unmasked Trump associates in perfectly legal conversations with individuals,” diGenova told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group Monday.
Oh REALLY? Now, keep in mind Susan denied all that during her interview with Andrea Mitchell. Atrocious grammar aside, her denials were totally out of the Obama and Clinton playbooks.
Meanwhile it’s been highly entertaining to watch Rice’s pals leap to her defense and the media refuse to let this story become a “thing.”
It was her fucking job to know this information! This is utter bullshit. https://t.co/YWInNoJxgI
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) April 4, 2017
Geez…language alert Jon!
https://twitter.com/Gooms/status/849313269638672384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fsamj-3930%2F2017%2F04%2F04%2Fit-was-her-fcking-job-jon-favreau-has-epic-meltdown-over-wsj-piece-on-susan-rice-leaking%2F
Yeah, pretty much! The Don Lemon defense didn’t help matters either.
Don Lemon: We won't insult our viewers by helping Trump spread misinformation https://t.co/wzGUwbZMCs pic.twitter.com/ju44LRx9Oq
— The Hill (@thehill) April 4, 2017
So as long as it's information approved by you, it's ok to spread around? But when it involves #SusanRice or @POTUS44 it's not? Got it. https://t.co/jlkUtnxy9U
— Nina Bookout (@NDBook96) April 4, 2017
Meanwhile the Senate Intelligence Committee has been alerted.
Susan Rice may ‘be of interest to us,’ says Senate Intelligence chairman https://t.co/JxmMxv4vUa
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 4, 2017
Ruh Roh Raggy! This isn’t good.
“Susan Rice is the Typhoid Mary of the Obama administration foreign policy. Every time something went wrong, she seemed to turn up in the middle of it,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Tuesday on Hugh Hewitt’s radio program.
Why does all this matter? Joseph diGenova, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia under President Ronald Reagan lays it out very clearly:
Andrew McCarthy adds his reasons why Rice must be held accountable.
What we are seeing here is political intrusion into law enforcement at all levels. That is very bad and very dangerous to the future intelligence capabilities and national security for this country. Ambassador John Bolton points out that Rice is now in a very sticky legal situation.
But that’s ok. At least this time a video wasn’t involved… or was it? Meanwhile, where’s Obama?
No one will be angrier his NSC advisor spied on and unmasked Trump than Obama when he finds out from TV during tonight's basketball game.
— Razor (@hale_razor) April 3, 2017
No worries. Ben Rhodes has Obama’s six.
There is no Obama SURVEILLANCE SCANDAL even when you capitalize the words. https://t.co/DGnUJDahC7
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) April 1, 2017
That's what you said about the IRS targeting scandal, too https://t.co/QJAooPTets
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) April 3, 2017
Ouch. That’s gonna leave a mark!
This wrongful surveillance strikes at the very core of our Constitutional rights. What Rice and others have done in the name of politics and pettiness has placed our Republic at risk. It’s time for Congress, especially the GOP to step up to the plate and prosecute all involved. Enough is enough.
This won’t stop until the consequences are severe. The people need to exercise their sovereignty if the courts and law enforcement won’t exercise their duties. Based on past performance, I doubt they will.
GWB – I agree completely. I don’t like it, but it’s the truth. Until someone steps up and says ENOUGH things like this that endanger Americans and this country will continue.
This is where, like you I believe, we know that if we let this continue we then continue to throw this Republic onto the ash heap of history. Awful thing to contemplate – which is one of the many reasons I write for Victory Girls. 😉
I’d like to see an analysis of whether her language and non-verbals look the same here as when she lied about the Benghazi attack.
You know… that would be interesting for sure.
Any number of articles came up when I searched using “susan rice’s body language.” Rather than post a specific one, well, take your pick.
Witch Hunt or maybe this is just pay back
When Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Rice was critical of the administration and its makeup. She called Trump’s strategy to reshuffle the National Security Council “stone cold crazy,” mostly taking issue with the appointment of Steve Bannon as the chief strategist.
The New York Daily News reported that Rice was in disbelief at removing some of the council’s positions.
Chairman of Joint Chiefs and DNI treated as afterthoughts in Cabinet level principals meetings. And where is CIA?? Cut out of everything? This is stone cold crazy. After a week of crazy. Who needs military advice or intel to make policy on ISIL, Syria, Afghanistan, DPRK? Trump loves and trusts the military so much he just kicked them out of the National Security Council and put a Nazi in their place.
The comments prompted White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer to fire back.
Spicer was asked about the remarks and said Rice’s comments were “clearly inappropriate language from a former ambassador. He told ABC’s This Week in January that Rice should quit commenting on the current administration.
When you talk about the missteps made by the last administration, with all due respect, I think Ambassador Rice might want to wait and see how we handle this, because I think so far they’ve got an expert team of folks that have come in to understand the national situation — our intelligence systems and how to modernize.
And now, a professor says the only reason this “fake news” is out there is because … RACISM! Natch. It’s because we all hate black women – especially powerful ones.
This crap is why I have dreams of moving to a free state and setting up a religious compound (for my gun cult for women). I just want to go Galt.
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