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The Jeffrey Zucker-led CNN continued to make a fool of itself on
Tuesday, downplaying the Susan Rice story of leaking/unmasking
of intelligence dispatches as if it were the Zika virus.
Hilariously, it’s attracted significant attention from not only
the Fox News Channel but MSNBC.

NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell led her eponymous MSNBC
program at noon Eastern with a 16-and-a-half-minute exclusive
sit-down with Rice, featuring some tough questions but little in
the way of follow-up or pushback.

CNN hosts Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo referred to the story as one
they won’t “aid and abet” because it’s “another fake scandal”
pushed by right-wing news, but MSNBC isn’t right-wing by any
stretch.

CNN is having a rough time after The New York Times Magazine
dropped a devastating profile of the network and boss Jeff
Zucker, so we’ll leave them alone for the time being.

Mitchell began her Rice interview by admitting that it’s become
“a firestorm...with the whole question of the Russian
investigation, of the response by President Trump, and now these
accusations against you” before opening up the floor for a long-
winded response by Rice that amounted to nothing.

Mitchell followed up by asking about the leaking with a weak
follow-up:

MITCHELL: Within that process, and within the context of the
Trump campaign, the Trump transition, did you seek the names of
people involved in — to unmask the names of people involved in
the Trump transition, the Trump campaign, people surrounding the
president elect in order to spy on them and expose them.

RICE: Absolutely — absolutely not for any political purposes, to
spy, expose, anything.

MITCHELL: Did you leak the name of Mike Flynn?

RICE: I leaked nothing to nobody and never have and never would.

She noted an allegation in the Daily Caller story about Rice and
intelligence alleged by House Intelligence Committee chairman
Devin Nunes before spending a chunk of time prodding Rice with a
keen interest for how the Russia/election investigation started.

Later, Rice channeled her former boss in Barack Obama as she
awkwardly told Mitchell that she found out that Michael Flynn
was an unregistered Turkish government agent “in the press as
everybody else did” and not through her job as national security
adviser.

The relatively-friendly interview concluded with Mitchell
inquiring about President Trump’s tweet that he was spied on by
the Obama administration:

MITCHELL: Is there truth to President Trump's claim on Twitter,
exactly one month ago, early one Saturday morning on March 4th,
that the Obama — that President Obama was eavesdropping on him
at Trump Tower?

RICE: Absolutely false.

(....)

MITCHELL: Do you know how President Obama feels about the
accusation that he eavesdropped?

RICE: I haven’t had that conversation with him.

MITCHELL: And finally, do you think we’ll will we ever get to
the bottom of the Russian hacking?


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To her credit, Mitchell interjected during the above portions of
the interview to bring up the chorus of critics on the right
side of the aisle, including calls for her to testify under oath
on Capitol Hill:

MITCHELL: There has been Republican responses, now today.
Senator Tim Cotton on the Hugh Hewitt Show called you the
Typhoid Mary of the Obama White House. Your response to that?

RICE: You know, I have been called a lot of things by folks on
the right that are unfair and disingenuous. This is not the
first, so I won't get into each individual allegation or moniker
that some might apply to me.

MITCHELL: Rand Paul is suggesting that you be subpoenaed to be
received. Would you be willing to go to Capitol Hill.

RICE: You know, Andrea, let's see what comes. I'm not going to
sit here and prejudge.

See, CNN, that wasn’t hard. Most media outlets don’t hold the
feet of liberals to the fire. That being said, CNN’s ability to
delegitimize this story and touting the spin from former Obama
administration official Jim Sciutto as trustworthy couldn’t have
been drawn up any better by the Obama team or the Resistance
movement.

As Josh Jordan pointed out on Twitter, Rice has changed her
story in just 13 days from claiming she knows nothing to arguing
she didn’t “request” the unmasking of Trump aides for “political
purposes.” That’s a story, but definitely not one most CNN
personalities are interested in exploring.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis- houck/2017/04/04/msnbc-interviews-susan-rice-cnn-continues-avoid- her-plague-dismiss

Comments:

Shawn • 5 days ago
You hateful right wing nuts are making much ado out of nothing.

It's obvious Susan Rice unmasked these individuals due to a
hateful Youtube video

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Big Daddy Doug • 5 days ago
"Benghazi was caused by a Moooohammad Porn video..."

"Sgt. Blo Dirtball served with "Honor and Distinction"..."

"I Din't Kno Knuffin' Bout No Unmaskin', Miss Scarlett..."
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Kathy Jia Big Daddy Doug • 4 days ago
That last one is SNORT-worthy. Kudos!! ;-)
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Big Daddy Doug Kathy Jia • 4 days ago
Damn, I was going for a "Mic Drop"...LOL!!!
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UpNorth2 • 5 days ago
If this former National Security Advisor knew nothing about
Flynn, until she, along with Boo-rock, read it in the papers or
saw it on the news, she wasn't doing her job. But then, she's a
dem, so lying is her fall back position.
Yet again, she at first didn't do it, then she didn't know about
it, then she may have known about it, she may have done it, but
she didn't do it for political purposes.
That doesn't even bring up her other famous instances of lying.
And, the nets work overtime to cover for her and Boo-rock.
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Fox Ratings R Defiant UpNorth2 • 5 days ago
Her official position is "Everything I didn't do was perfectly
legal", lol!
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GuyNorge • 5 days ago
"I leaked nothing to nobody". That is a double negative. So she
leaked something to somebody? Or is that the best grammar from a
former Nat Sec Dir? Did she say that like Billy told us it
depends on how you define "is"? I think her choice of words was
coached.
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DadintheBurbs GuyNorge • 4 days ago
I think her lapse into ebonics was really a case of nerves.
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Kathy Jia DadintheBurbs • 4 days ago
I said it before and I'll say it again - Why do all leftists
think everyone is as stupid as they are?
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puhiawa • 5 days ago
Not a single tape of the hundreds gathered concerned a national
security issue. Clapper said there was zero evidence of a
Trump/Russia collusion. That leaves a single motive: political
spying. This is a complete misuse of her office. Oh, and she is
a liar.
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Julesagain ?go Milo go puhiawa • 5 days ago
Yes! That's what pisses me off. Where is the law
enforcenforcement reason for ANY OF this to be pawed through by
Obama and his stooges an entire year before the election?
Everyone seems to be acting like it was kind of OK because,
well, you know, it's important to make sure White House
employees and Cabinet members aren't colluding with an enemy.

Except you know what? An entire year before the election, or
even last summer, they were not cabinet members or White House
staffers. They were private citizens, not even named as possible
Trump picks.

WHERE IS THE LAW ENFORCEMENT BASIS?

You don't get to just go digging around in the intelligence this
country gathers like you're at the buffet at Sizzler. You have
to have a legitimate reason and permission from a judge.
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bluesdoc70 • 5 days ago
LOL...Well it isn't as if CNN has a reputation to worry about
anyway. They're pretty much considered a joke as a "news"
organization.
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Mad Jack • 5 days ago
Susan Rice was too close to the potus #44 for him to be clean in
all this. the whole regime is starting to circle the drain
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JettNC • 5 days ago
Susan, the answer is "No". Sanctuary Cities can not protect
members of the Obama Administration from arrest.
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nonncom • 5 days ago
Mitchell wasn't "interviewing".....she was providing an
opportunity for Rice to cover her butt....
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victoryman nonncom • 5 days ago
No surprise. The Mitchell (Greenspan) hag is an echo chamber for
democrat talking points
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DeweyDS victoryman • 5 days ago
"Echo chamber" is not used enough to describe the condition of
the left media. Like!.
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