Rice also denied leaking anything to the media, and she said people in Trump's inner circle and/or those who worked in Trump Tower were not specifically targeted for any surveillance operations during the Obama administration. Will you advocate for war without constitutional or congressional authority?' And she said no.
So the names of Americans picked up by eavesdropping can never be used?
The intelligence reports at the center of the Susan Rice unmasking controversy were detailed, and nearly resembled a private investigator's file, according to a Republican congressman familiar with the documents. US officials may request-but not order-Americans' names unmasked for a few select reasons.
How does this pertain to Rice? Identities of Americans in such reports are normally "masked" by calling them "U.S. Person 1" and "U.S. person 2", for example.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer cast Rice's handling of intelligence in the waning days of Obama's term as suspicious, although he did not detail what he found to be inappropriate.
"Absolutely not for any political purposes - to spy, expose anyone".
"Do I think [Rice committed a crime]?"
No, and Trump provided none.
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After false starts and odd twists in the White House's counternarrative about the potential connections between President Trump's campaign and Russia's electoral meddling, the storyline has settled into a familiar arc: It's all Susan Rice's fault.
The supposed "unmasking" of Trump's affiliates doesn't mean Rice revealed their identities either, according to the news network.
Rice has come under fire this week amid reports that she was responsible for the unmasking of the identities of Trump associates.
When asked if Ms. Rice, who has denied leaking the names of Trump associates under surveillance by United States intelligence agencies, had committed a crime, the president said, "Do I think?"
If Rice or someone else in the Obama administration did request the unmasking of Trump associates, would it be a crime? She had no need of operational intelligence in these cases.
Trump's post set in motion a sometimes baffling chain of events as the White House and its allies in Congress tried to make the president's charge be true.
Obama NSA advisor Susan Rice's alleged unmasking of intelligence intercepts of some of President-elect Trump's transition staff appears to be a violation of policy and law, says at least one member of the House Intelligence Committee.
The only transition officials known to have been picked up communicating with foreign officials was Mike Flynn, who had several telephone calls with Russia's ambassador, Sergey Kislyak. The counsel's office ordered him to stand down because the lawyers did not want the White House to be running an independent investigation into the prior administration.
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