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Bob Woodward: Obama officials possibly facing criminal charges for unmasking scheme

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By DANIEL CHAITIN (@DANIELCHAITIN7) • 3/22/17 9:07 PM

The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward warned on Wednesday that there are people from the Obama administration who could be facing criminal charges for unmasking the names of Trump transition team members from surveillance of foreign officials.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said earlier that he had briefed Trump on new information, unrelated to an investigation into Russian activities, that suggested that several members of Trump’s transition team and perhaps Trump himself had their identities “unmasked” after their communications were intercepted by U.S. intelligence officials.

The revelation is notable because identities of Americans are generally supposed to remain “masked” if American communications are swept up during surveillance of foreign individuals.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/woodward-obama-officials-possibly-facing-criminal-charges/article/2618185

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Bob Woodward: Clinton emails ‘reminds me of the Nixon tapes’

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By EDDIE SCARRY • 8/17/15 7:50 AM

Veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward on Monday compared the email controversy engulfing Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.

On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Woodward, who through his reporting helped break open the Watergate scandal, said it’s at least suspicious that Clinton’s emails from her tenure as secretary of state were wiped away from a server she owned privately.

“Follow the trail here,” Woodward said. “There are all these emails. Well, they were sent to someone or someone sent them to her. So, if things have been erased here, there’s a way to go back to these emails or who received them from Hillary Clinton. So, you’ve got a massive amount of data in a way, reminds me of the Nixon tapes: Thousands of hours of secretly recorded conversations that Nixon thought were exclusively his.”

News broke earlier this year that Clinton relied on a private email address and server, rather than a government-owned one, when she served at the State Department. Subsequent reports said that she received classified and top secret information through that system. Federal officials have since taken Clinton’s server and are continuing an investigation into whether its security was compromised.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bob-woodward-clinton-emails-reminds-me-of-the-nixon-tapes/article/2570299

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Bob Woodward: Bush Didn’t Lie About WMDs to Justify Iraq War

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Sunday, 24 May 2015 09:19 PM

By Greg Richter

Former President George W. Bush did not lie about the presence of weapons of mass destruction to justify the Iraq War, journalist Bob Woodward said Sunday.

The argument has been used for years by Democrats and other detractors, but Woodward said on “Fox News Sunday” that his own 18-month investigation showed that Bush was actually skeptical that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had WMDs as Saddam claimed.

Though plenty of mistakes were made in the invasion of Iraq, Bush actually told CIA Director George Tenet, “Don’t let anyone stretch the case on WMD,” Woodward said.

The reason the United States went into Iraq was “momentum,” he said.

“That war plan kept getting better and easier, and finally at the end people were saying, ‘Hey, look, it’ll only take a week or two.'”

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WOODWARD: LOTS OF UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ON OBAMA’S INVOLVEMENT IN IRS SCANDAL

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WOODWARD: LOTS OF UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ON OBAMA’S INVOLVEMENT IN IRS SCANDAL

Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “MediaBuzz,” Bob Woodward said there are, “lots of unanswered questions,” about the Obama administrations involvement in the IRS scandal surrounding the targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny.

Woodward said, “The reality now in my view that in the Obama administration, there are lots of unanswered questions about the IRS, particularly. If I were young, I would take Carl Bernstein and move to Cincinnati where that IRS office is and set up headquarters and go talk to everyone.”

https://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/10/26/Woodward-Lots-of-Unanswered-Questions-on-Obama-Involvement-in-IRS-Scandal