NationalReview | Her interest was not in national security but to advance the
political interests of the Democratic party.
The thing to bear in mind is that the White House does not do
investigations. Not criminal investigations, not intelligence
investigations.
Remember that.
Why is that so important in the context of explosive revelations that
Susan Rice, President Obama’s national-security adviser, confidant, and
chief dissembler, called for the “unmasking” of Trump campaign and
transition officials whose identities and communications were captured
in the collection of U.S. intelligence on foreign targets?
Because we’ve been told for weeks that any unmasking of people in
Trump’s circle that may have occurred had two innocent explanations: (1)
the FBI’s investigation of Russian meddling in the election and (2) the
need to know, for purposes of understanding the communications of
foreign intelligence targets, the identities of Americans incidentally
intercepted or mentioned. The unmasking, Obama apologists insist, had
nothing to do with targeting Trump or his people.
That won’t wash.
