

During her Tuesday interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, former National Security Advisor Susan Rice for the first time admitted to unmasking “U.S. persons” included in intelligence reports.



The intelligence community sometimes incidentally collects the communications of U.S. citizens in its surveillance of foreigners, but those names are redacted when they are reported to White House officials. Rice told Mitchell that at times it was necessary for her to ask the intelligence agencies for the names of those U.S. citizens to determine the potential threat to national security.



“When the intelligence community would respond to a request from a senior national security official for the identity of an American, that would come back only to the person who requested it,” she first said in response to a question from Mitchell. “It would brought back to them directly… To me or whoever might have requested it.”

added: video from PBS March 22nd where She denies knowing "anything about this"



WOODRUFF: We spoke earlier this evening with former Obama White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice, the author of that piece. It was her first interview since leaving the White House.



I began 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: I know nothing about this. I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today.

edit on Apr-04-2017 by xuenchen because: vinyl-records



Former National Security Advisor under Obama, Susan Rice, has admitted asking for masked names to be "unmasked" inside intel reports !!She was on MSNBC on Tuesday April 4th.She claims it was "necessary" to get the names of Americans in order to obtain "full context".She denies leaking anything.She denies using anything against anybody for political reasons.Sure.Watch the video and see some obvious signs of lying.The "host" Andrea Mitchell has the whole script in front of her.Susan also emphasized that "unmasking" is not the same as "leaking"She never said why the White House would be so interested at the time.And she denied keeping any lists or spreadsheets.