By Phillip Wegmann, Washington Examiner:
First, Susan Rice denied any knowledge of unmasking the identities of Trump officials named in intelligence reports linked to the president’s transition team. Then, the former national security adviser admitted that unmasking occurred, while insisting it wasn’t for political purposes.
What will the Obama administration official say next? If her Tuesday interview with MSNBC offers any answer, it’s that Rice appears to shift her story in direct proportion to political pressure.
In her most recent explanation, Rice explained to Andrea Mitchell, that from time to time the correspondence of private citizens would get swept up in legal surveillance of foreign actors. And occasionally when the redacted name of those persons was deemed pertinent to national security, she sometimes requested the “unmasking” of an individual.
“The intelligence community made the determination whether the identity of that U.S. person could be provided to me,” Rice said, insisting that she didn’t make the call.
While her account of the process might be correct, there’s a problem. Two weeks ago during a PBS interview, Rice denied having any knowledge of unmasked information…
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