{"id":91298,"date":"2017-09-15T11:12:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T11:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/trump-rips-susan-rice-over-unmasking-says-its-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg.html"},"modified":"2017-09-15T11:12:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T11:12:30","slug":"trump-rips-susan-rice-over-unmasking-says-its-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-rips-susan-rice-over-unmasking-says-its-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump rips Susan Rice over unmasking, says it\u2019s \u2018just the tip of the iceberg\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump said Thursday that efforts by Susan Rice to unmask his associates\u2019 identities in intelligence reports last year are \u201cjust the tip of the iceberg,\u201d slamming the former Obama national security adviser days after she spoke to House investigators.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s not supposed to be [unmasking], and what she did was wrong \u2026 and that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg,\u201d Trump told Fox News, speaking aboard Air Force One on his way back from surveying Hurricane Irma damage in Florida.<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cI heard she admitted [to unmasking] yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n

A senior Capitol Hill source told Fox News that Rice gave \u201cvast and varied\u201d explanations for her actions last week, during a meeting with the House Intelligence Committee. It was the latest in a series of meetings for Obama officials with lawmakers looking for details on the role they may have played in seeking Trump associates\u2019 identities from intelligence reports.<\/p>\n

As CNN first reported<\/a>, Rice explained to the committee that she wanted to learn why the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates was in New York last year. He apparently attended a meeting with Michael Flynn, Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, and strategist Steve Bannon in December.<\/p>\n

Rice said she was bothered by that meeting and the timing, because the UAE delegation had asked for a meeting with then-President Obama and then canceled, supposedly because they weren\u2019t coming to the U.S. \u2013 only for the crown prince to quietly see the Trump team.<\/p>\n

House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., did not dispute this account of the Rice appearance, when asked on Fox News\u2019\u00a0\u201cAmerica\u2019s Newsroom.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s not inconsistent with\u00a0her testimony.\u00a0Whether or not that’s true or\u00a0not, I can’t tell you.\u00a0But it’s consistent with what\u00a0she said,\u201d said Gowdy, among the lawmakers who questioned Rice.<\/p>\n

He said Rice did a \u201cgood job\u201d during the interview. Asked whether her answers were satisfactory, he said, \u201cI have no reason to impeach them or contradict them.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he added, \u201cThere\u2019s a whole body of documents that I need to know whether or not what she said is corroborated or contradicted. I don\u2019t usually go just based on what someone said, particularly if there are documents that either refute it or corroborate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Congressional investigators have issued subpoenas to the NSA, CIA and FBI seeking “unmasking” information related to three individuals: Rice, former CIA Director John Brennan and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power.<\/p>\n

Rice initially told PBS’ Judy Woodruff in March that she \u201cknew nothing\u201d about the unmasking of Trump associates. But weeks later on MSNBC, she admitted she sometimes sought out the identities of Trump associates who communicated with foreigners, a request known as \u201cunmasking\u201d in the intelligence community.<\/p>\n

But \u201cI leaked nothing to nobody,\u201d Rice told MSNBC.<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 John Roberts and Catherine Herridge contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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President Trump said Thursday that efforts by Susan Rice to unmask his associates\u2019 identities in intelligence reports last year are \u201cjust the tip of the iceberg,\u201d slamming the former Obama national security adviser days after she spoke to House investigators. \u201cShe\u2019s not supposed to be [unmasking], and what she did was wrong \u2026 and that\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-91298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}