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From: apes@splcenter.org

Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton likened former Obama administration
national security adviser Susan Rice to “Typhoid Mary” while
discussing his familiarity with “unmasking” procedures on the
Senate intelligence committee.

Speaking Tuesday with radio host Hugh Hewitt about reports that
Ms. Rice requested the “unmasking” of Trump campaign associates
who were caught up in U.S. surveillance efforts, the Republican
senator said it would be a “momentous” occasion for a member of
the committee to ever make a similar request.

“Typically, we wouldn’t see transcripts of intercepts to begin
with,” Mr. Cotton said. “Those transcripts are part of the raw
intelligence that analysts at the NSA and CIA and other
intelligence agencies use to produce finished products that then
we would review.
 
“We’re looking at the raw intelligence in the same way that a
lawyer might review the records to see if the claims in a brief
are supported,” the senator added. “But that’s fairly unusual.
Typically, we’re dealing with finished products and we’re
dealing with hearings where the authors or the sponsors of the
products are testifying. So, I’ve never had the occasion — I’ve
never needed to request unmasking of that, and it would be a
pretty momentous action because those minimization procedures
are in place specifically to protect the privacy and civil
liberties of American citizens.”

Mr. Cotton said it is important for the committee to view logs
of all individuals who requested documents related to President
Donald Trump’s associates.

“Susan Rice is the Typhoid Mary of the Obama administration
foreign policy,” Mr. Cotton said, a reference to the 20th
century woman who spread typhoid fever in New York. “Every time
something went wrong, she seemed to turn up in the middle of it
— whether it was these allegations of improper unmasking and
potential improper surveillance, whether it was Benghazi or many
of the other fiascos of the Obama administration. … The last
thing we need are political operatives in the White House
fooling around with intelligence to make it harder to pass the
laws we need to keep Americans safe.”

Ms. Rice has denied any wrongdoing related to the matter. On
Tuesday she told MSNBC’s Andrew Mitchell that claims she acted
unethically during her tenure in the White House are “absolutely
false.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/4/tom-cotton-calls- susan-rice-typhoid-mary-of-the-ob/
 

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