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   Former National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice said Tuesday the   
   notion she used her powers to unmask members of the Trump   
   campaign or transition for political purposes is “absolutely   
   false.”   
      
   Speaking to MSNBC, Ms. Rice also said she never kept a   
   spreadsheet of instances in which intelligence community picked   
   up conversations involving the Trump campaign — something that   
   was suggested in a news report that President Trump posted to   
   his Twitter account early Tuesday.   
      
   Mr. Trump and Republicans are seizing on reports that Ms. Rice,   
   during the waning days of the Obama administration, played a   
   central role in “unmasking” several Trump campaign officials who   
   had been swept up in U.S. surveillance operations against   
   foreign targets during last year’s presidential election   
   campaign.   
      
   Ms. Rice said any notion she used her powers to harm Mr. Trump   
   during a review of incoming intelligence on possible Russian   
   interference in the election was false.   
      
   “Absolutely not for any political purposes — to spy, expose   
   anyone. I leaked nothing to nobody,” she told MSNBC’s Andrea   
   Mitchell.   
      
   She said it is not uncommon to find out the identity of U.S.   
   officials when it seemed relevant, based on intelligence, but   
   she has no recollection of ramping up those efforts during the   
   campaign and that she didn’t unmask anyone in communications.   
      
   http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/4/susan-rice-   
   insists-she-did-not-use-intelligence-po/   
             
      
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