{"id":344372,"date":"2018-01-18T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/did-donald-trump-change-his-mind\/"},"modified":"2018-01-18T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T14:30:12","slug":"did-donald-trump-change-his-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/did-donald-trump-change-his-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Donald Trump Change His Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Late last week, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, repeated his public observations that members of the intelligence community \u2014 particularly the CIA, the NSA and the intelligence division of the FBI \u2014 are not trustworthy with the nation\u2019s intelligence secrets. Because he has a security clearance at the \u201ctop secret\u201d level and knows how others who have access to secrets have used and abused them, his allegations are extraordinary.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to the high-ranking members of the Obama administration who engaged in unmasking the names of some people whose communications had been captured by the country\u2019s domestic spies and the revelation of those names for political purposes. The most notable victim of this lawlessness is retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump\u2019s former national security adviser, a transcript of whose surveilled conversation with then-Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak found its way into print in The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>During the George W. Bush and Barack Obama years, captured communications \u2014 digital recordings of telephone conversations and copies of emails and text messages \u2014 did not bear the names of those who sent or received them. Those names were stored in a secret file. The revelation of those names is called unmasking.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Suicide-Pact-Expansion-Presidential-American\/dp\/0718021932?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=0718021932\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51jOyOZOjjL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Suicide-Pact-Expansion-Presidential-American\/dp\/0718021932?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=0718021932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Suicide Pact: The Radi&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-author\">Andrew P. 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Any price and availability information displayed on Amazon.com at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-button\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lrc18-20&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;ASIN.1=0718021932&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/amazon-ad-link-lr\/img\/buy-from-tan.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nunes also condemned the overt pro-Hillary Clinton bias and anti-Trump prejudice manifested by former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey and their agents in the field, some of whose texts and emails we have&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/01\/andrew-p-napolitano\/did-donald-trump-change-his-mind-on-domestic-spying\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last week, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, repeated his public observations that members of the intelligence community \u2014 particularly the CIA, the NSA and the intelligence division of the FBI \u2014 are not trustworthy with the nation\u2019s intelligence secrets. 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