ACLJ: In the ACLJ’s pair of unmasking lawsuits under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a federal district court just issued a critical opinion, giving us a partial but significant win.
According to the court, the State Department may no longer refuse to admit or deny the existence of records of Obama Administration senior official Samantha Power’s unmasking activity involving Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a list of which the National Security Agency (NSA) declassified in May.
While many outlets reported that Power had been involved in an inordinately high number of unmasking requests at the end of the Obama Administration, some on the Left had tried to downplay these actions by saying they were done by low level staffers under Power’s name, and not by Power herself. Friday’s decision by the federal district court makes it clear that all unmasking requests made under Power’s name can properly be attributed to Power herself. This is so, in part, because unmasking actions taken by subordinates are indeed actions taken by the principals.
That is bad news for the Deep State, as former Vice President Joe Biden and President Obama’s Chief of Staff were also “principals” identified on the list of those for whom subordinates made unmasking requests.
Now, a federal court has recognized that principals are responsible for the unmasking actions of their agents – and those unmasking requests carried out by subordinates, as agents, are attributable to the principals themselves. Efforts to distance Biden and other senior Obama officials from the political spying – blaming it on the staffers – just got a lot more difficult.
Here is what we reported in the past about this lawsuit: more
Just another gross violation that obama officials will wind up skating on.
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In other news, college basketball coaches are demanding that sat scores stop be used as a prerequisite to playing in college.
Because certain people are not getting to play because of this rule and that’s RACISS!!!!
So???
At what point does it become treason?
The narcissists who served in obama’s admin were drunk with power and come hell or high water, would cling to the last vestige of control until they were dragged out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Dissatisfied they were that the old drunkard failed to hobble across the finish line, they continue to this day to sabotage the Trump admin and despise his supporters with a vengeance.
If I were married to a nut job who espouses animals have rights to sue, I wouldn’t be gloating about my superior decision making skills.
It SOUNDS great, but forgive me if I have a hard time believing that it’s really going to make a difference. The Law doesn’t apply to certain people, it seems.
Apparently our government fell apart at the seams while Americans where sound asleep while voting. Now it’s up to us to fix it because no one in Washington is up to the job.