@POTUS uses the adversary’s weakness against itself
“By ordering disclosure of the transcripts, the court can empower the American public to judge for itself — and assess why the department is trying to walk away from this important case.” — Gleason, author of WaPo editorial
*Gleeson
Gleeson will now help Judge Sullivan adjudicate @GenFlynn case - guess what he is going to do?
Gleeson is going to keep the court credible by finding out what’s in the transcript, and maybe making it public.

He will combine that with
...the many instances of @GenFlynn unmasking requests during transition BEFORE the first call with Kislyak (Russia)
as @treehuggingsis points out
“Among [Jared] Kushner's many appearances in the [Mueller] report is his and Flynn's meeting with Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak at Trump Tower in New York after the 2016 election.”
“At a seminar at Stanford University on Nov. 10, two days after Trump was elected, Kislyak insisted that what he does isn't nefarious.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/meet-sergey-kislyak-shadowy-apparatchik-center-trump-s-russia-crisis-n728461
“‘Our job is to talk to all the people — be it Republicans, be it Democrats, whether they work for a campaign or they don't work for a campaign,’ Kislyak said. ‘Our job is to understand, to help Russia.’”
“Michael McFaul, who was President Barack Obama's ambassador to Russia until 2014, calls Kislyak a close friend despite their political differences....’His job is to represent his country here, and I think he does it fantastically well.’”
“Kislyak said at the seminar that it would be silly to think that he hadn't had contacts with a wide variety of U.S. political figures.

‘I personally have been working on the United States so long that I know almost everybody. It's normal diplomatic work.’”
“Power made seven separate requests to unmask Flynn’s name over a six-week period between the end of November 2016 and Jan. 11, 2017.”
“Power requested unmaskings of information related to Flynn on Nov. 30, 2016; Dec. 2, 2016; Dec. 7, 2016; two separate requests on Dec. 14, 2016; Dec. 23, 2016; and Jan. 11, 2017.”
But “Samantha Power Claimed She Never Tried To Unmask Michael Flynn.”
“Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power testified to Congress in 2017 that she never sought to unmask records containing information about former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.”
“I don’t recall making such a request.”
“‘I have no recollection of making a request related to General Flynn,’ Power again claimed.”
“I have never leaked classified information. I have never leaked names that have come back to me in this highly compartmented process. I have, in fact, never leaked, even unclassified information.”
October 17, 2017: “House Oversight & Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said Tuesday that President Obama's former United Nations ambassador has testified that not all of the ‘unmasking’ requests made in her name were directed by her.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trey-gowdy-samantha-power-testified-that-intel-officials-made-unmasking-requests-in-her-name
“Samantha Power testified in Gowdy's committee last week, and Fox News reported weeks before her appearance that she was thought to have made as many as 260 requests to ‘unmask’ Americans caught up in the surveillance of non-U.S. citizens.”
“But Tuesday evening, Gowdy told Fox News that Power told his committee that she was not the official requesting that unmasking in every case.”
“she would say those requests to unmask may have been attributed to her, but they greatly exceed by an exponential factor the requests she actually made," Gowdy said.
“Her testimony is, they may be under my name, but I did not make those requests."
Powers’ name was used but to hide whose involvement?
Alan Dershowitz: “President Obama personally asked the FBI to investigate somebody on behalf of George Soros."

https://www.businessinsider.com/dershowitz-cites-obama-soros-conspiracy-to-justify-trump-doj-meddling-2020-2
“Media figure Sharyl Attkisson is seeking to reopen her case against Obama administration Justice Department officials over claims they illegally spied on her.”

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/477783-journalist-alleging-obama-administration-spied-on-her-seeks-to
“Attkisson, who worked as a journalist at CBS News during the relevant period, now hosts a Sinclair television show....While at CBS, Attkisson garnered acclaim for investigative reporting on Operation Fast and Furious”
“Among the defendants named in her suit is Rod Rosenstein”
“Attkisson alleges her Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure was violated by government intrusions into her electronic devices while she reported on controversial issues like the 2012 attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya.”
“James Risen....is the New York Times journalist who has been fighting efforts by two different DOJ — under Presidents Obama and George W. Bush — to compel him to identify sources from a 2006 book that reveals a secret CIA plan to sabotage Iran's budding nuclear program.”
“For the past 5 years, he has battled the Obama administration's Justice Department....Risen told The Times' Maureen Dowd recently that Obama represented a fundamental obstacle for press freedom.” https://www.businessinsider.com/james-risen-case-obama-journalism-press-freedom-2014-8
“Maxine Waters Dishes On Obama Secret Database”
“‘The President has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life,’ Rep. Maxine Waters told Roland Martin on Monday. ‘That’s going to be very, very powerful.’” https://247sports.com/college/michigan-state/Board/97/Contents/Obamas-Secret-Database--20205740/
“That database will have information about everything on every individual on ways that it’s never been done before and whoever runs for President on the Democratic ticket has to deal with that.”
“They’re going to go down with that database and the concerns of those people because they can’t get around it. And he’s [President Obama] been very smart. It’s very powerful what he’s leaving in place.”
“The C.I.A. officials penetrated the computer network when they came to suspect that the committee’s staff had gained unauthorized access to an internal C.I.A. review of the detention program that the spy agency never intended to give to Congress.” https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intelligence-commitee-cia-interrogation-report.html
“Pres. Barack Obama announced two years ago he would curtail eavesdropping on friendly heads of state....behind the scenes, the White House decided to keep certain allies under close watch....topping the list was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-spy-net-on-israel-snares-congress-1451425210
“The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act” https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/obamas-final-year-u-s-spent-36-million-foia-lawsuits
“the late BuzzFeed reporter Michael Hastings...suggested that the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act would open the door to Pentagon propaganda of U.S. audiences.”

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/
“A 2010 email released by Wikileaks from a top-level CIA contractor asserts that CIA Director John Brennan, the subject of a story by now deceased journalist Michael Hastings, was on a ‘witch hunt’ against ‘investigative journalists’ perceived as hostile.” http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/wikileaks-cia-s-brennan-on-witch-hunt-when-hastings-was-killed/article/421913
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