So after months of congressional hearings, the unmasking scandal, where top Obama administration officials were caught revealing the names of Americans caught up in political dragnets and then leaking them to the press, really just boils down to a need for a rules change? That's the apparent state of things, now that the director of National Intelligence has proposed a new set of rules on unmaskings during presidential transitions.  In a letter to House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes, the DNI, Dan Coats, has proposed new guidelines with new safeguards and reporting requirements on unmasking any Americans during a presidential transition.  This time, they will make them really, really, really airtight to protect innocent Americans. The problem here is that there already are rules in place, and the Obama administration just didn't want to follow them.  Obama people broke the laws on unmaskings; unmasked like crazy under the...(Read Full Post)