White House lawyers last month discovered that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.<\/i><\/p>\n
The pattern of Rice\u2019s requests was discovered in a National Security Council review of the government\u2019s policy on \u201cunmasking\u201d the identities of individuals in the U.S. who are not targets of electronic eavesdropping, but whose communications are collected incidentally. Normally those names are redacted from summaries of monitored conversations and appear in reports as something like \u201cU.S. Person One.\u201d<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2017-04-03\/top-obama-adviser-sought-names-of-trump-associates-in-intel<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe National Security Agency\u2019s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn\u2019t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n Frank Church<\/p>\n