A person has been named as the Obama administration official that requested the unmasking of members President Donald Trump’s transition team.
And Fox News’ Brit Hume is not surprised by who it is.
Who can be surprised at the emergence of Rice as a player in this drama? https://t.co/WKVoPVZQCD
— Brit Hume (@brithume) April 3, 2017
Susan Rice, who is famous for blaming the Benghazi terrorist attacks on a video, has been reported as one of the officials who requested the identities U.S. citizens caught in the surveillance, Bloomberg News reported.
The National Security Council’s senior director for intelligence, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, was conducting the review, according to two U.S. officials who spoke with Bloomberg View on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly. In February Cohen-Watnick discovered Rice’s multiple requests to unmask U.S. persons in intelligence reports that related to Trump transition activities. He brought this to the attention of the White House General Counsel’s office, who reviewed more of Rice’s requests and instructed him to end his own research into the unmasking policy.
An official, who spoke to Bloomberg on the condition on anonymity, said the communications contained valuable information on the transition team, such as who they were talking to and how they planned on handling foreign relations matters.
Many on social media were equally unsurprised.
@brithume N’yup. Susan Rice was the one who went on the Sunday shows to make the false claim the Benghazi attack was caused by a video. Pants on ?.
— Marshall Power Locke (@MarshallLocke) April 3, 2017
@brithume I’m old enough to remember when she was running around fibbing about the video causing Benghazi…
— HollisCabot (@HollyCabot) April 3, 2017
@brithume @oooonoelleoooo Not Me !
Oh Susanna, you lied for HRC
Sessions gonna throw the book at you
theres no chance for a Plea@FBI @AmbASSadorRice @TheJusticeDept pic.twitter.com/wknTRbux9u— JScotty (@InsaneTerrain) April 3, 2017
Will #SusanRice be blaming a video for this too? https://t.co/beBG6L9mqd
— DeniseVB (@blogho) April 3, 2017
@brithume And what do you bet she lies about it? Blames a video maybe!
— Patrick (@patrickatroy) April 3, 2017
@brithume @jtLOL Obama aide Susan Rice sought names of Trump associates in intel
“Its, you know, for a friend….”
— Bobmbx (@bobmbx) April 3, 2017
@brithume Susan Rice might be surprised.They never thought they would lose the election.
— Helen o’D (@boggywood) April 3, 2017
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