HANNITY THREATENS LAWSUIT IF OBAMA ADMINISTRATION “UNMASKED” HIM IN NSA SURVEILLANCE

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Fox News host Sean Hannity has laid down a
challenge that he will sue the Obama administration if it turns out he
was under NSA surveillance and his name was “unmasked” either within the
administration or to members of the press.
“I am going
to sanction the biggest lawsuit that I possibly can with the biggest
attorneys in the country so we can do something to stop the shredding of
the Constitution,” Hannity said
in a radio broadcast on Aug. 4, noting that he has on “pretty good
authority” that he was under Obama administration NSA electronic
surveillance and that the Obama administration “unmasked” his name.
On March 20, Infowars.com published
records obtained from Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse that individual
records of hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens were under National
Security Agency (NSA) electronic surveillance in the years 2004 through
2010, in a database that suggests both Donald J. Trump and Alex Jones
were under illegal, unauthorized government monitoring during those
years.

Fox News reported
on June 23 that Judicial Watch was unable to obtain records on Trump’s
2016 campaign team “unmasking” because all relevant NSA records have
been transferred to President Obama’s yet-unopened presidential library
and will not be available to the public for five years.
Disclosure
of the names of U.S. citizens identified through the course of NSA
electronic surveillance of foreign operatives under FISA-court
authorization is a federal crime, regardless whether the “unmasking”
involves disclosure within the government or to outside sources,
including the press.
On April 3, Fox News reported
that Susan Rice, the former national security adviser under
then-President Barack Obama, requested to unmask the names of Trump
transition officials caught up in surveillance.
“The unmasked
names, of people associated with Donald Trump, were then sent to all
those at the National Security Council, some at the Defense Department,
then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and then-CIA
Director John Brennan – essentially, the officials at the top, including
former Rice deputy Ben Rhodes,” Fox News noted.
“The names were
part of incidental electronic surveillance of candidate and
President-elect Trump and people close to him, including family members,
for up to a year before he took office,” Fox News stressed.
On Aug. 2, Washington Free Beacon reported
that former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power is believed to
have made “hundreds” of unmasking requests to identify individuals named
in classified intelligence community reports related to Trump and his
transition team.
Rep. Devin Nunes, Rep.-Calif., chair of the House Intelligence Committee, in a letter
dated July 27, addressed to Daniel Coats, Director of National
Intelligence, noted that since the 2016 election, there have been
“numerous leaks alleging inappropriate or unlawful activity” by
individuals associated with President Trump.
Nunes also commented
the House Intelligence Committee also understands “that Obama-era
officials sought the identities of Trump transition officials within
intelligence reports,” commenting that Obama-era officials “may have
used this information for improper purposes, including the possibility
of leaking.”
Last Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced
the Department of Justice was opening an investigation, pursuing
criminal charges against people who leaked classified information,
presumably including Obama-era officials who may have “unmasked” Trump
campaign and transition team members from NSA electronic surveillance
records.
Last Thursday, a controversy developed over the disclosure
of an unclassified letter Trump’s national security adviser, Gen. H. R.
McMaster, sent to Susan Rice’s home, giving her unfettered and
continuing access to classified information and waiving her
“need-to-know” requirement she viewed or received since leaving the
Obama White House, despite concerns over Rice’s involvement in the Obama
administration’s developing “unmasking” scandal.