Unmasking of Flynn 2016 request by Amb. John R. Phillips, Pipeline to the MSM or what? Pipeline to the MSM or what? Dec. 6, 2016 Ambassador to Italy and San Marino, John R. Phillips  Found the name from Sharyl Atksson's list posted here https://voat.co/v/GreatAwakening/3820358 He's married to Linda Douglass Linda Douglass is the Head of Communications for Bloomberg in Washington DC. Prior to that, she was the Global Head of Communications for Bloomberg Media in New York.[1] During President Barack Obama's first term, she was director of communications for the White House Office of Health Reform in the Obama Administration (May 2009[2]–April 2010).[3] In June 2010, she was named Vice President, Head of Corporate and Strategic communications at Atlantic Media [4] and later became Senior Vice President of Global Communications. In 2013, she moved to Italy when her husband, John Phillips, was named ambassador to Italy.[5] In 2019, she endorsed Pete Buttigieg in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[6]  Douglass was first associated with Barack Obama as a senior strategist and spokeswoman of his presidential campaign. She joined his campaign on May 21, 2008.[7] Following Obama's victory in the November 2008 presidential elections, Douglass was appointed spokeswoman for the presidential inauguration committee.[8]  Douglass had a long career as journalist with ABC News and CBS News and covered some of the major events of the 1990s and early 2000s.[9] She was awarded the National Press Foundation's Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress in 1999.[10] She began her journalism career in 1973 with KNXT (now KCBS-TV), the CBS owned-and-operated station in Los Angeles.  Time to examine the list of those requesting the unmasking in their known ties to media or leaks to media? Dec 15, 2017 The Media's Democratic Ties http://archive.is/ZWBH3 This past week, the Washington Post ran a pretty incredible story about the Democrat opposition research group, Fusion GPS. The organization has never fully been vetted by journalists because it has spoon fed so many stories to so many reporters. The reporters have been protecting their source. In fact, even the Washington Post did not dive too deeply into the company's ties to Russians and elsewhere. What the Washington Post did confirm, though, is that Fusion GPS has a lot of former journalists on its payroll as employees and also works with a lot of reports to help shape stories. We also now know that Fusion GPS did not just hire journalists, but also had a senior Department of Justice employee's wife on its payroll at a time it was creating the Steel dossier. This likewise comes as there are new questions about Congressman Adam Schiff, the congressman the media loves. He may have been one of the CNN sources who caused them to get basic facts wrong last week in a story related to Trump's emails. There is a pretty substantial symbiotic relationship between the political left in Washington and the media. While a few people went from the media to the Bush Administration, it was never like it was with Obama. During the Obama Administration, many members of the media floated in and out of the administration and in and out of leftwing blogs and think tanks. They are still around with many of them serving as reporters and their leftwing friends as active members of the Democrats' "resistance." They trade information and shape each other's worldviews and I am not convinced the heads of media outlets are doing enough to push their reporters to separate their worldview from the facts at hand. As a result, we are not getting the whole truth, but a narrative within which facts are shaped to advance the narrative. Jay Carney went from Time to the White House press secretary's office. Shailagh Murray went from the Washington Post to the Veep's office while married to Neil King at the Wall Street Journal. Neil King has left the Wall Street Journal to work for Fusion GPS.  Linda Douglass went from ABC News to the White House and then the Atlantic.  Jill Zuckman went from the Chicago Tribune to the Obama Administration's Transportation Department. Douglas Frantz went from the Washington Post to the State Department and Stephen Barr went from the Post to the Labor Department. Ruth Marcus, who heads the Washington Post Editorial Board, is married to the Obama Administration's former Federal Trade Commission Chairman. Jonathan Allen had been at the Politico before going to work for Debbie Wasserman Schultz, then back to Politico before going to the left leaning Vox. Now he is at NBC News. Andy Barr worked for the Politico before leaving for Democrat politics. Michael Scherer was at both Salon and Mother Jones before going to Time. Laura Rozen was at Mother Jones and the American Prospect before Foreign Policy magazine. Even Nate Silver had started out at Daily Kos. Then, of course, there is Matthew Dowd, who worked for scores of Democrats before working for George Bush. That, though he later washed his hands of Bush, bought him street credibility with ABC News to become its senior political analyst alongside George Stephanopoulos, formerly of the Clinton Administration.