Two Republican senators on Tuesday called on Congress to investigate whether former National Security Adviser Susan Rice had political motives for “unmasking” Team Trump officials who were inadvertently caught on US surveillance.

“I’m not going to prejudge here, but I think every American should know whether or not the national security adviser to President Obama was involved in unmasking Trump transition figures for political purposes,” Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) told Fox News. “It should be easy to figure out, and we will.”

He then took a pointed shot at Rice — who furiously denied any political motives in the unmasking — over her much-mocked claims on national TV the Sunday after the 2012 attacks on the US compound in Benghazi, when she repeatedly — and incorrectly — blamed an anti-Muslim video for what she called a spontaneous protest.

“When it comes to Susan Rice, you need to verify, not trust,” Graham said.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) went even further, calling for Rice to be subpoenaed and forced to spill her guts about what Obama knew of her activities.

“The facts will come out with Susan Rice, but I think she ought to be under subpoena, and she needs to be asked, ‘Did you talk to the president about it? Did President Obama know about this?’ ” Paul said on MSNBC.

In her first comments on the issue, Rice insisted she never leaked the name of Mike Flynn, one of the Trump aides who “incidentally” turned up in the surveillance of Russian officials.

Flynn later resigned as President Trump’s national security adviser after misrepresenting his contacts with Russia’s US ambassador to Vice President Mike Pence.

On Monday, it was revealed that Rice on dozens of occasions requested the identities of Americans whose conversations with foreign officials were collected by US spy agencies.

“This is not anything political as has been alleged,” Rice said during a separate appearance on MSNBC.

She said it was part of her job to follow through when surveillance of a foreign official revealed suspicious contacts with Americans.

“The allegation is that somehow Obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes. That is absolutely false. I leaked nothing to nobody and never have and never would,” she said.

But last month, Rice flatly denied knowing anything about the surveillance intercepts at all.

In a March 22 show, PBS host Judy Woodruff began an interview with Rice by asking about “the allegations leveled today by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes that Trump transition officials, including the president, may have been swept up in surveillance of foreigners at the end of the Obama administration.”

Rice replied, “I know nothing about this. I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today.”

Nunes (R-Calif.) sparked a firestorm last month when he disclosed that some Trump transition officials had been incidentally picked up in surveillance of Russian officials.

Rice insisted she’s not to blame that Flynn’s name became public, making a distinction between requesting information and leaking it.

“The notion, which some people are trying to suggest, that by asking for the identity of an American person, that is the same as leaking it, is completely false,” she said.

“There’s no equivalence between so-called unmasking and leaking. The effort to ask for the identity of the American citizen is necessary to understand the importance of an intelligence report in some instances.”

Trump’s backers called the news of Rice’s alleged actions proof of his March 4 claim that Obama had wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower — but that claim remains unsubstantiated.

With Post Wires