Avoiding the thread topic and engaging in petty attacks.
Seems you often complain of others doing that, LOL.
This story appears to be getting more legs than the whole Russia/Flynn thing, that must bother you.
Maybe that's true in the political world you exist in, but it isn't in mine.
On this issue, here's what's being discussed.
Appropriate Surveillance
There is no “unmasking” scandal. The whole thing is bullshit, a reality TV storyline jointly spun by Republicans and the right-wing media. It’s a clever bit of misdirection and mystification meant to do two things. First, it’s supposed to validate the president’s March 4 tweet claiming that Obama put a “tapp” on his phone during the presidential campaign, though it does no such thing. Second, the “unmasking” drama is meant to make it seem as if the real scandal lies in the investigation into the Trump team’s foreign contacts—which Trump would have us believe was politically motivated—and not the contacts themselves.
In fact, it would have been a dereliction of duty for the Obama administration, which was still in charge of the country’s national security, to ignore suspicious contacts by members of the Trump transition team. After all, at the time, the FBI investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russian attempts to subvert the election had already begun. We also now know that Michael Flynn, who would soon assume Rice’s job, was a paid foreign agent of Turkey. According to ex-CIA Director James Woolsey, Flynn met with representatives of the Turkish government to discuss kidnapping Fethullah Gülen, a government critic who lives in Pennsylvania, and sending him back to Turkey outside of normal extradition channels. (Flynn denies that this happened.) Trump himself has alleged financial ties with Russian mobsters. At the time of the alleged unmasking, all these men were still private citizens. If they were talking to targets of American surveillance, the people in charge of our national security had an obligation to understand why.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_..._was_keeping_tabs_on_trump_s_russia_ties.html
There was nothing illegal or unethical about what Rice was doing .. she was doing her job.
Hit me back when you come up with anything illegal about this. Until then ...
Senators expand Russia investigation, amid scrutiny of House probe
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-investigation-amid-scrutiny-house-probe.html
Why the Donald Trump and Russia stories are not going away
https://mic.com/articles/172333/why...-russia-stories-are-not-going-away#.aJ12t8Ebb
I'm sure you'd like for this to all go away .. but it won't.