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OK.
You have to understand.
You have to understand **why** a "Cover Your Ass" [CYA] memo like this is written to begin with.
If you don& #39;t understand that, you miss what the declassified section reveals.
![OK. You have to understand. You have to understand **why** a "Cover Your Ass" [CYA] memo like this is written to begin with.If you don& #39;t understand that, you miss what the declassified section reveals.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYZ8KV7WkAAXkra.jpg "OK. You have to understand. You have to understand **why** a \"Cover Your Ass\" [CYA] memo like this is written to begin with.If you don& #39;t understand that, you miss what the declassified section reveals.")
You have to understand.
You have to understand **why** a "Cover Your Ass" [CYA] memo like this is written to begin with.
If you don& #39;t understand that, you miss what the declassified section reveals.
Rice is the observer of this conversation in which sitting President Obama ***orders*** FBI Director Comey to hide from the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump that the FBI is **spying** on his National Security Adviser, Gen Flynn.
It says Obama ***asks*** Comey intended to have the FBI National Security Council [that was running the Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence sting of the incoming Trump team] keep Flynn in the dark about "information related to Russia".
That& #39;s CODE for "Crossfire Hurricane".
That& #39;s CODE for "Crossfire Hurricane".
The way Rice **relates** it in this CYA memo, Obama politely **asked** "I say, my good man, do you intend to let& #39;s say, keep Flynn in the dark and not inform him about this counterintel thing you are running involving Russia matters?"
& Comey says "Why yes! Yes indeed!"
& Comey says "Why yes! Yes indeed!"
It **can& #39;t be conveyed as an ORDER**.
But this is the President of the United States talking to a direct employee of the Executive Branch.
So he& #39;s not politely **asking** Comey what HE& #39;S going to decide to do.
He& #39;s TELLING Comey what to do.
But this is the President of the United States talking to a direct employee of the Executive Branch.
So he& #39;s not politely **asking** Comey what HE& #39;S going to decide to do.
He& #39;s TELLING Comey what to do.
But of course....Rice can& #39;t phrase it that way.
So it gets put in this memo in the form of a MILD QUESTION that Obama asks Comey, as if he& #39;s leaving it COMPLETELY UP TO THE FBI DIRECTOR to decide what& #39;s going to happen next.
So it gets put in this memo in the form of a MILD QUESTION that Obama asks Comey, as if he& #39;s leaving it COMPLETELY UP TO THE FBI DIRECTOR to decide what& #39;s going to happen next.
This is deliberately written to make it look like COMEY is the decider here, he& #39;s the executive that makes the decision to hide from Flynn & the rest of the incoming Trump team that they are TARGETS of an ongoing counterintelligence sting being run by the FBI.
