Susan Rice denies misusing intel to damage Trump

Source: Politico


By REBECCA MORIN 04/30/17 09:44 AM EDT

Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice denied President Donald Trump's claim that she tried to unmask Americans in an attempt to implicate Trump campaign officials, adding that she never did anything "untoward with respect to the intelligence" she received.

During an interview with CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" airing Sunday morning, Rice said Trump's accusation is "absolutely false" and that members of Congress have not found anything inappropriate in the situation.

"I think now we've had subsequently members of Congress on the intelligence committees on both sides of the aisle take a look at the information that apparently was the basis for Chairman [Devin] Nunes' concern, and say publicly that they didn't see anything that was unusual or untoward," Rice said, referring to the California Republican. "I did my job, which was to protect the American people, and I did it faithfully and to the best of my ability, and never did I do anything that was untoward with respect to the intelligence I received."

When asked by Zakaria about Trump blaming the Obama administration for security clearance of Michael Flynn, Rice said that the Trump administration was expected to do additional vetting for senior White House or administration appointments.

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