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Did Susan Rice Do Anything Wrong By Asking to 'Unmask' Trump Officials?

A new <em>Bloomberg View </em>report says that Obama’s national security adviser wanted the names of Trump transition team officials in intelligence reports to be revealed.
Source: Yuri Gripas / Reuters

Ever since Devin Nunes’s mysterious announcement of supposed surveillance of Trump transition team members two weeks ago, the story has operated on two levels. The first is why Nunes behaved the way he did—with mysterious cloak-and-dagger maneuvers—and who he got his information from. It now appears that despite rushing to brief President Trump on his news, the GOP chairman of the House Intelligence Committee received his information from the White House in the first place.

The second, and more obscure, concerns the actual material that Nunes had. He was cagey about it, in part because it is apparently classified. He said that Trump transition team members were subject to “incidental collection,” which refers to U.S. persons being caught up in legal surveillance of foreign targets. There

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