Natural News) As the scandal grows surrounding former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice, who allegedly ordered the Intelligence Community to create detailed surveillance documents on Team Trump before and after the election, it's important to note that the original story was broken by an alternative media figure, not the so-called "mainstream" media.

In an April 2 story published on his Medium account, Mike Cernovich broke the story that Rice requested that at least some members of Trump's transition and campaign teams be "unmasked" – an intelligence term meaning the identification of Americans caught up in incidental intelligence surveillance of other foreign figures – which is not supposed to happen unless the American in question is believed to be acting on behalf of a foreign entity. (RELATED: Obama officials caught red-handed in most explosive abuse of power in U.S. history… bigger than Watergate… is Susan Rice going to prison?)

In a follow-up to his blockbuster story, Cernovich said he was tipped off by someone at either Bloomberg or The New York Times, both of whom had reporters who knew of the Rice revelations but were sitting on it and weren't likely to report it.

In a video (below), Cernovich identified that both Eli Lake at Bloomberg and Maggie Haberman at the Times had the story but refused to publish it because they dislike Trump and wanted to protect the Obama presidency.

"Maggie Haberman had it. She will not run any articles that are critical of the Obama administration," he said. "Eli Lake had it. He didn't want to run it and Bloomberg didn't want to run it because it vindicates Trump's claim that he had been spied upon. And Eli Lake is a 'never Trumper.' Bloomberg was a 'never Trump' publication."