Lindsey Graham: I Was A Target Of Obama Admin ‘Unmasking’

Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. questions FBI Director James Comey as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, before the committee's hearing: "Oversight of th... Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. questions FBI Director James Comey as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, before the committee's hearing: "Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) MORE LESS
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Sen. Lindsey Graham says U.S. intelligence agencies tell him that a conversation he had with a foreign individual was picked up in surveillance and that an unknown U.S. official or officials asked to know his identity as a party in the conversation.

Graham says he doesn’t know if intelligence agencies actually revealed his name. But he’s sent a letter to the FBI, CIA and the National Security Agency seeking information on any incidental collection of his communications with foreign targets.

Graham says he wants to know if Obama administration officials sought the unmasking of Americans in foreign intelligence reports for political reasons.

Graham, R-S.C., spoke Friday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom.”

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  1. Um, if the Obama Administration had unmasked him for political purposes, wouldn’t they have used that information for political purposes? This is fucking ridiculous. Putin has his hand so far up Trump’s ass he’s tickling dude’s tonsils and Lindsey’s on Fox ginning up nonsensical conspiracy theories. He and John McCain will bear more responsibility for the disastrous effect of this administration than anybody else – they’ve demonstrated that they understand exactly what’s going down, they’re uniquely positioned to intervene and they choose to do no more than mouth mild statements of “concern” from time to time. Traitors.

  2. He’s warming up the distraction machine. He ought to just cut to the chase and simply say, “The treason committed by the Trump administration isn’t really all that bad.”

    Having said that, “Who were you talking to, Lindsey? Your lover or merely a confidant?”

  3. Avatar for tena tena says:

    Nice job making intelligence sound “political,” because you got caught doing something you didn’t want other people to know about. I have no idea why and it doesn’t matter.

    You, Madame, are a snake.

  4. Who were you talking to, Huckleberry? Do they use a Cyrillic alphabet?

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