Oh, my!

NEWS: Grenell has sent a list to Sens. Johnson/Grassley of former Obama administration officials who may have been involved in the unmasking of Michael Flynn.

Biden is on the list, along with Clapper, Comey, Brennan, more.

Updated story w/ @woodruffbetshttps://t.co/y9BhxOc3TV pic.twitter.com/3I4SJ5vpOZ

— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) May 13, 2020

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says he is writing to acting DNI Rick Grenell, inviting him to testify next week about the unmasking of Michael Flynn. Paul has questions about what President Obama and former Vice President Biden knew. Paul chairs the government oversight subcommittee.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) May 13, 2020

Well, of course he did!

Under US surveillance rules, unmasking an American's identity in a report derived from foreign-intelligence surveillance is routine when necessary to understand (e.g., who was the Russian ambassador talking to?). The NSA did so 10,000 times last year, nearly 17,000 times in 2018. pic.twitter.com/iThs9w15ZN

— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) May 13, 2020

And then there's this little inconvient fact;

I dunno guys. I’m hard pressed to see how this was a massive deep state coup when Obama warned Trump directly, to his face, about Flynn. That’s not super secret spy work.

— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) May 13, 2020

I guess Trump wasn't paying attention?  WSJ is already on it, too:

Unmasking U.S. identities in intel reports is a fairly routine process that occurs thousands of times a year and is requested by senior administration officials to better understand the context of intercepted conversations that are being reviewed.https://t.co/M1CdO7m8eA

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) May 13, 2020

Yeah, I think this thing has the legs of a dachshund.  Considering how Sen. Paul got pwned by Dr. Fauci, too....

LOGIC. HOW DO IT WORK? https://t.co/SyY3Fr3yod

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 13, 2020

Apparently the federal statute under which Barack Obama would be indicted is called "Just wait, you'll see."

— Josh K (@JoshKatz9) May 13, 2020

And there's even a blast from the past!

Trumpers want you to think "unmasking" is somehow sinister. It is a tightly controlled process that exists only because NSA is so careful about protecting the identities of US Persons who wind up in SIGINT reports in the first place.

Snowden lied to you, which now helps Trump.

— John Schindler (@20committee) May 13, 2020

Although that does explain Glenn Greenwald's attitude towards Trump.

Besides, the act is as ordinary as ordering pie for dessert:

Identities are masked when a US person who is NOT the target of the surveillance is captured on the communication -- this is an "incidental communication." They are unmasked when the identity is necessary to understand the intelligence. All legal, no warrant required. https://t.co/mghxJ3FcW8

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) May 13, 2020

And while we're chasing down this rabbit trail:

Red alarms were going off all over Washington about Michael Flynn’s contacts with foreign officials, especially the Russian ambassador, following on his payments from the Kremlin’s RT and invitation to sit at Putin’s table. FBI shouldn’t have been interested? https://t.co/ApAEXf7VDl

— Jeff Stein (@SpyTalker) May 13, 2020

Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.