Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who served under then-President Barack Obama, has been named as the high-ranking official who requested that the names of Trump transition officials caught up in surveillance be “unmasked.”
Such amazing reporting on unmasking and the crooked scheme against us by @foxandfriends. "Spied on before nomination." The real story.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 3, 2017
.@FoxNews from multiple sources: "There was electronic surveillance of Trump, and people close to Trump. This is unprecedented." @FBI
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 3, 2017
Normally, the names of Americans not targeted in any criminal or national security investigation are supposed to be “masked” or redacted (hidden) in any report or interagency communication as a protection of their civil rights.
Multiple sources told Fox News that the unmasked names of people who were part of incidental electronic surveillance were then-candidate and subsequently President-elect Donald Trump, as well as those close to him — including family members — for up to a year prior to Inauguration Day.