Why did Samantha Power unmask hundreds of American citizens?

Okay, Jay Sekulow is asking a very interesting question: what is the former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power doing unmasking an unprecedented number of Americans? An unnecessary unmasking done by the NSA would be bad enough, but the U.N. Ambassador? Can anyone offer a reasonable justification for the U.N. Ambassador unmasking anyone, let alone hundreds of people?

Per a letter sent on July 27th by House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes to Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats:

The Intelligence Community, its leaders, law enforcement personnel, and policy makers may have valid reasons for unmasking U.S. person identities and may do so in compliance with law and policy. However, the Committee has found that senior government officials offered remarkably few individualized justifications for access to this U.S. person information. For example, this Committee has learned that one official, whose position had no apparent intelligence-related function, made hundreds of unmasking requests during the final year of the Obama Administration. Of those requests, only one offered a justification that was not boilerplate and articulated why that specific official required the U.S. person information for the performance of his or her official duties.​

Hopefully AG Sessions will be announcing serious activities surrounding these concerns.

For context, here's the broadcast of the discussion on Jay Sekulow Live:


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Purely political? That is how it appears on the surface. Perhaps we will find out soon.