dramatic of the traditional republican tradition on these issues. or they re being offered to distract from the real story. yeah, so i want to talk about it, i think it s worth getting to it for a moment. right, there s something called minimumization exist because you want to protect the privacy of american persons when you are surveilling foreign entities. with that foreign entity has conversation it s minimized or masked. senior intelligence officials, including the national security adviser, who is the american on the other side of that conversation, if it is the case that susan rice did that in these context, that is that okay, is that not okay. what do you make of that. so this would be sort of within the ordinary activity of a national security adviser. i typically would occur as a generic identifier. u.s. person number one. in some cases it will even be title, especially in the case of a government official. so sometimes that information will be disseminated with that
yeah, so i want to talk about it, i think it s worth getting to it for a moment. right, there s something called minimumization exist because you want to protect the privacy of american persons when you are surveilling foreign entities. with that foreign entity has conversation it s minimized or masked. senior intelligence officials, including the national security adviser, who is the american on the other side of that conversation, if it is the case that susan rice did that in these context, that is that okay, is that not okay. what do you make of that. so this would be sort of within the ordinary activity of a national security adviser. i typically would occur as a generic identifier. u.s. person number one. in some cases it will even be title, especially in the case of a government official. so sometimes that information will be disseminated with that generic identifier. the senior officials will say, hey, in order to understand the
i was particularly puzzled by congressman nunes going down to the white house to kind of brief the president, i suppose. the problem, of course, is it tends to undermine the credibility and independence of a hill hearing and i think that s really unfortunate. what could be the find of information? in looking at it, you ve been inside at the cia, at the nsa, what is the universe of possibilities that this could be? well, i ve given that a little thought. i don t have any magic answers. it could be explaining how, if this is true, how people close to president trump and the campaign, how they might have been picked up had they been communicating with foreign folks. and what would be so secret about that? well, as you know, under executive order 12111, minimumization, in other words taking out u.s. person identities is standard operating procedure and it obligatory. it can be broken in two
if they re part of a cell and the investigation can find the clues, that will expand. i will say this, before we went to the breaking news, the brother, we have to start looking at people erin burnett did an interview with the paris attacker s brother. we have to look closely at what these individuals say, i don t think so, that s a minimizization statement. we need to look closely at relatives when they say things like that. that s very odd. if my sister had done something like that and i had no idea, you would see me say, i had no idea. this is crazy. but when i say, i don t think she was radicalized. to me that s a minimumization statement and a little odd. this message was posted on a facebook page. how do authorities know that this malik posted it herself?
that s the major point. this is very important for us to be able to get speed and time is of the essence. when we have extra hurdles added to the process, i think that disadvantages us, especially with the rise of isis. some would say there has always been a become door which is the 702 program that permits americans to have their records checked if they are in communication with somebody who is already being surveilled from overseas. well, what that is called incidental collection. occasionally if we are following a known bad guy overseas and that individual calls an american, the nsa is under very strict guidelines about what they must do with that information. it s called minimumization. in many cases you have to suppress the data, suppress the name and only really bring it forward if it s determined they are involved in an active plot against the united states which is of course what you would want us to do. last week or two weeks ago, rather, when the paris attacks