UPDATED: Is This The Big Unmasking News?

Obama's Chief of Staff, Denis McDonough, unmasked Michael Flynn on January 5, 2017. That was the date of the big Pow-Wow in the Oval Office, where Flynn was very much the topic of discussion among Obama, Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Biden, Yates, and Susan Rice.

Coincidence? Not!

UPDATE: Devin Nunes telling Lou Dobbs, It gets much worse because Flynn is only one of the people being surveilled and unmasked.

Excellent Gregg Jarrett Interview With Toensing And diGenova

Last night Gregg Jarrett, subbing for Lou Dobbs, conducted a wide ranging interview with Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova, going over many aspects of the Russia Hoax. Much of it is in the context of the upcoming--maybe--testimony of Robert Mueller. I'll append the nine and a half minute interview, but I want to focus on two exchanges that I consider key--and which I've transcribed. The first deals with what I strongly suspect John Solomon was getting at in his tease: "new evidence emerging about the conduct of one of Mueller’s deputies." That deputy, as everyone has surely guessed, is almost certainly Andrew Weissmann:

JARRETT: [Speaks about how "dossier" credibility has been destroyed by John Solomon.] 

diGENOVA: Well, the most important thing about the spreadsheet is that it proves conclusively that the Bureau knew, before it ever filed the first FISA warrant, that everything, they couldn't verify it, and they told the FISA court four times that they had verified the information in the application for the wiretap on Carter Page, and that was a lie. And those four applications constituted crimes and everybody involved in that process at the senior levels of the FBI and at the senior levels of the Justice Department knew that. And we are told that there are Justice Department officials who were very concerned about it, but not one of them stepped up and stopped the filing of those four FISA warrant applications. There were crimes committed, just there, plus many other crimes as well. 

JARRETT: Well, and keep in mind, and I would ask Mueller this question Wednesday--assuming he'll testify, and I don't know if he will, really--but I would say, Wait a minute! The fourth FISA warrant application happened on your watch, yours and Rod Rosenstein's watch! Rosenstein signed off on it, the June, 2017, FISA warrant! Were you in on that? Were you submitting an unverified application, when on the top of it it says 'verified'? 

TOENSING: Yeah, well, we have a few more questions, too, for Mueller, who, he certainly can answer process questions, like, Did you ever know that Andrew Weissmann, when he was head of the Fraud Section--which, by the way Greg, I used to supervise, so I know what the portfolio is--were you ever told that he was briefed on the "dossier" and so therefore it would have been a conflict for him to be on your staff for the Special Counsel? Were you ever told that Andrew Weissmann told journalists that the "dossier" was just fine and dandy--when he was head of the Fraud Section? So it would have been a conflict? We have all kinds of those questions for him that are not about the investigation but about process.

The second passage concerns Mueller's visit to the Oval Office with Rod Rosenstein the very day before Mueller was named Special Counsel. That visit has all the appearance of a setup, a undercover recording of the President of the United States that violated standard White House security. There would need to be a written justification for that type of operation (called, in my day, "consensual monitoring"), specifying the investigative justification, including the crime being justified. Does such paperwork exist and, if not ...