re: #290 John Hughes

The NSA was running surveillance on some Russians, which they’re allowed to, and recorded them talking to an American, who has to be “masked” (transcripts show him as “American #1” or something like that). There is a legal process for “unmasking” people who seem to be doing really bad shit.

As Flynn was.

Interestingly since Trump’s election the number of requests for “unmasking” has massively increased.

Okay, that makes more sense. Thank you.

Still makes my head hurt that this is the new CT from Republicans, but now I know how to refute it.