Trump suggests Susan Rice might have committed crime

There were reports a couple of years ago that all of Italy’s phone calls were absorbed in a one month period of time.

Her position as national security adviser had allowed her to request the unmasking, or the identifying of American citizens, in intelligence reports.

“The allegation is that somehow the Obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes”, Rice told Mitchell.

Trump did not repeat his claim at a White House news conference shortly after the Times interview.

Trump, asked by the Times, if he believed Rice committed a crime, responded, “Do I think?”.

In addition, since last summer, intelligence agencies have been investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, including its role in hacking into Democratic email systems and distributing stolen communications and possible coordination with the Trump campaign.

Rice said she would need to see unmasked names as part of her to “protect the American people and the security of our country”, Rice said Tuesday. “Hopefully, at the end, we will find out what happened and they will issue a report, I hope, on a bipartisan basis”. Have you actually seen intelligence that leads you to believe that people other than Susan Rice are involved.

Rice went on to explain that in the course of doing her job it was sometimes necessary to request that a name be unmasked. Ted Cruz in 2018 Week ahead: Congress itching for answers on WikiLeaks, Trump wiretapping claims MORE (D-Texas) said Wednesday that she is “stunned” President Trump and conservatives for attacking three prominent black women.

The dispute revolves around so-called “incidental collection”- when US intelligence agencies inadvertently pick up the names or conversations of USA persons on wiretaps or other communications intercepts. Flynn was sacked after it became clear that he misled Vice President Mike Pence and others about the content of those discussions.

Does Trump think Rice committed a crime?

An early April report revealed that Susan Rice, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and national security adviser in President Obama’s administration, requested information on private citizens with close connections to President Trump’s transition team. Ezra Cohen-Watnick, an NSC’s senior director, is the individual who discovered that Rice made the dozens of inquiries, Lake’s report states. Cohen-Watnick has clashed with the Central Intelligence Agency and was on the verge of being moved out of his job until Trump political advisers Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner stepped in to keep him in the role.

Two weeks ago, Devin Nunes (the Representative for California), Chair of the Intelligence Committee of the House of Representatives confirmed that government agencies had “accidentally” listened to members of Donald Trump’s campaign team.

It’s unclear if the information Nunes received is the same as the materials involving Rice.

Rice alluded to that Russian Federation probe in her interview, saying it was of “grave concern”.

The National Security Agency, which conducts global eavesdropping for the US government, intercepts phone calls, email or other communications of suspected terrorists or foreign agents.

Rice reportedly attempted on numerous occasions to uncover the identities of Trump’s associates caught on tape incidentally during intelligence surveillance.

There is a lot of news coming out of Washington these days about President Trump, congressional investigations of the Russians, and even Ivanka Trump and her White House office.

Democrats insist the new focus on Susan Rice is a distraction.

Fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of SC suggested a different approach by calling on Congress to look into the reports.