From his CIA experience, @FredFleitz lays out a checklist of what US officials should get the intelligence community to disclose about 'unmasking' the Trump team in 2016. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/flynn-unmaskers-what-happened-what-means-fred-fleitz

2. @FredFleitz: The "unmasking" issue is about "how the Obama administration weaponized intelligence to undermine and destroy the incoming Trump administration."

"But it also suggests this conspiracy began earlier and was much broader than previously believed."

3. Fleitz's CIA background guides what to look for: "the intelligence community needs to release much more information to get to the bottom of this conspiracy. This should include information on the content of the NSA reports and which officials made unmasking requests of them."

4. Dig: "Intelligence officials ... need to provide a broader list of all unmasking requests made by senior Obama officials during this time period because it is likely that other Trump campaign and transition officials also were targeted," @FredFleitz says.

5. Here's how unmasking works: "Names of US citizens mentioned in US intelligence reports, often NSA communications intercepts, are blacked out (minimized) because, under US law, America’s foreign intelligence services are normally not permitted to spy on U.S. citizens..."

6. "...Although senior US officials are permitted to ask for the identity of a blacked-out name in an intelligence report (an unmasking request)," says @FredFleitz, . . . .

7. "... such requests are unusual and the requestor must have a 'need to know' the identity of the US person to understand the foreign intelligence information or assess its importance," @FredFleitz explains. So documentation exists about who asked about whom.

8. Even so, the knowledge of the unmasked person is highly compartmented, @FredFleitz says: "When the request is approved, the unmasked identity is released only to the person who requested it, not to everyone who might have seen the original version of the report."

9. Unmasking is supposed to be done very rarely. "For example, during my time at the State Department from 2001-2006, Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage made about 100 demasking requests. Then-Under Secretary of State John Bolton only made 10," @FredFleitz says.

10. Obama team targeted Flynn after election: "The list released today is of 39 top Obama officials who made 53 requests to unmask LTG Flynn’s name from intelligence reports between election day (Nov. 8, 2016) and Jan. 31, 2017," says @FredFleitz.

11. Careerists deep in the system joined the unmasking operation, @FredFleitz says: "While many of the requesters were Obama political appointees who resigned by Jan. 20, 2017, some were career officers at CIA, the Pentagon and other agencies."

12. Most unmasking requests were BEFORE the time we were told: "The most stunning thing about this list is that the vast majority of these requests were dated between Dec. 14 and 16, which was before Flynn’s Dec. 29 phone call to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak." @FredFleitz

13. Obama team's operations led FBI to pursue @GenFlynn on his first days in the White House: "An NSA intercept of this phone call was the basis of the Jan. 24, 2017, FBI interview with Flynn when two FBI agents used this intercept to entrap Flynn into lying about the call."

14 Comey wanted no witnesses: "FBI Director James Comey broke protocol by not informing White House lawyers that he planned to send FBI agents to meet with Flynn. The FBI agents discouraged Flynn from having a lawyer present and didn’t read him anything like the Miranda warning."