Gorka Considers Watergate A ‘Spat In The Sandbox’ Compared To Susan Rice

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White House aide Sebastian Gorka and Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday boldly speculated about the Obama administration surveilling the Trump transition team, a situation they see as “beyond Watergate.”

Gorka suggested, based on the comments of a “former operative” he heard speaking on Hannity’s radio show, that officials in Obama’s White House could have been analyzing the phone patterns of Trump’s top staffers. His argument hinged on many “ifs.”

“If you want to attack me or Steve Bannon or Steve Miller or Kellyanne Conway, you say, ‘Oh, they regularly call their nephew in Canada. Well, that’s a foreigner,” he said. “I don’t need the same kind of intelligence authorities to intercept a foreign call. Then you start to find a way to unmask all of these conversations so that you can make political profit. That’s a very, very tenable theory.”

“And that’s the kind of thing we have to find out if it was really happening,” Gorka continued. “Because if that’s the case, that is weaponizing intelligence for political purposes against your other party.”

There is no evidence to suggest that anything like what Gorka described had occurred.

Their speculation was based on reports that Susan Rice, Obama’s national security adviser, requested the unmasking of U.S. persons on intelligence reports that contained information about Trump campaign staffers.

Rice said that unmasking requests were a routine part of her role monitoring foreign governments, an explanation with which national security experts agreed, and noted that requesting the identity of a minimized U.S. person in an intelligence report is not the same as leaking that identity to the press. She insisted that she “leaked nothing to nobody and never have and never would.”

Still, the conservative press, and a few Republican lawmakers, have seized on the reports about Rice as evidence that the Obama administration was spying on Trump staffers.

President Donald Trump asserted without evidence on Wednesday that he believes Rice may have committed a crime.

Gorka and Hannity were similarly fired up during their conversation, with the Fox host alleging that the “weaponizing” of intelligence information was “beyond Watergate on steroids and human growth hormones.”

“Losing 14 minutes of audiotape in comparison of this is a little spat in the sandbox in the kindergarten,” Gorka concurred.

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  1. They’re desperate.

  2. I’m sure this makes perfect sense to the idiots that watch Sean Hannity’s show.

    ETA : I saw on one of the Intertweeters that Sean is going to sue the shit out of Susan Rice if she dared “unmask” him in NSA reports. lol

  3. When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go
    And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low
    Go ask Alice, I think she’ll know
    When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead
    And the white knight is talking backwards
    And the red queen’s off with her head

  4. Avatar for caltg caltg says:

    Continuing that line of thinking, then Gorka’s associations with the neo-nazi movement in Poland (and here?) are comparable to the San Francisco earthquake.

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