{"id":70518,"date":"2017-04-04T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70518"},"modified":"2017-04-04T10:23:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:23:05","slug":"rand-paul-calls-for-susan-rice-to-testify-under-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70518","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul calls for Susan Rice to testify under oath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<span class=\"byline\">By Cheryl K. Chumley<\/span><span class=\"source\"> &#8211; The Washington Times <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/rand-paul\/\">Sen. Rand Paul<\/a> followed a bomb-blaster of a tweet about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/susan-rice\/\">Susan Rice<\/a>\u2019s supposed \u201cspying on [the] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/trump-associates\/\">Trump<\/a> campaign\u201d with a call for her to come to Capitol Hill, take the oath and testify.<\/p>\n<p>She won\u2019t. But she should. At the very least, it\u2019d be good for the former Barack Obama national security adviser to explain just why she wanted to \u201cunmask\u201d the names of those in intelligence reports tied to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think we should discount how big a deal it was that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/susan-rice\/\">Susan Rice<\/a> was looking at these, and she needs to be asked, did President Obama ask her to do this? Was this a directive from President Obama? I think she ought to testify under oath on this,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/rand-paul\/\">Paul<\/a> said to reporters, The Hill <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/327078-paul-rice-should-testify-under-oath-about-unmasking-of-trump\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a>. \u201cI think she should be asked under oath, did she reveal it to the Washington Post.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s the kicker; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/rand-paul\/\">Paul<\/a> put it bluntly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they were illegally basically using an espionage tool to eavesdrop or wiretap \u2014 if you want to use the word generally \u2014 on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/trump-associates\/\">Trump<\/a> campaign,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s an astonishing accusation \u2014 but an even more astonishing action, if true. And Rice holds it within her power to clarify.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/apr\/4\/rand-paul-calls-susan-rice-testify-under-oath\/\">http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/apr\/4\/rand-paul-calls-susan-rice-testify-under-oath\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}