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From: apes@splcenter.org

Former National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice said Tuesday the
notion she used her powers to unmask members of the Trump
campaign or transition for political purposes is “absolutely
false.”

Speaking to MSNBC, Ms. Rice also said she never kept a
spreadsheet of instances in which intelligence community picked
up conversations involving the Trump campaign — something that
was suggested in a news report that President Trump posted to
his Twitter account early Tuesday.

Mr. Trump and Republicans are seizing on reports that Ms. Rice,
during the waning days of the Obama administration, played a
central role in “unmasking” several Trump campaign officials who
had been swept up in U.S. surveillance operations against
foreign targets during last year’s presidential election
campaign.

Ms. Rice said any notion she used her powers to harm Mr. Trump
during a review of incoming intelligence on possible Russian
interference in the election was false.

“Absolutely not for any political purposes — to spy, expose
anyone. I leaked nothing to nobody,” she told MSNBC’s Andrea
Mitchell.

She said it is not uncommon to find out the identity of U.S.
officials when it seemed relevant, based on intelligence, but
she has no recollection of ramping up those efforts during the
campaign and that she didn’t unmask anyone in communications.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/4/susan-rice- insists-she-did-not-use-intelligence-po/
 

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