{"id":302084,"date":"2017-04-04T06:56:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T05:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rand-paul-calls-for-susan-rice-to-testify-admist-surveillance-controversy\/"},"modified":"2017-04-04T06:56:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T05:56:22","slug":"rand-paul-calls-for-susan-rice-to-testify-admist-surveillance-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rand-paul-calls-for-susan-rice-to-testify-admist-surveillance-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul Calls for Susan Rice to Testify Admist Surveillance Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>GOP Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he believes former\u00a0National Security Advisor Susan Rice should testify before Congress on her request to unmask the names of Trump transition officials collected during routine intelligence-gathering operations.<\/p>\n<p>Paul argued <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/04\/03\/unmasked-susan-rice-requested-intelligence-on-trump-associates\/\" target=\"_blank\">the situation<\/a>\u00a0should not be downplayed, saying reforms need to be made to prevent individuals from being blackmailed on personal aspects of their lives through unmasking. He noted there was nothing stopping the former administration from looking through Trump officials and national security advisors\u2019 conversations during the transition window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it is allowed, we shouldn\u2019t be allowing it, but I don\u2019t think should just discount how big a deal it is that Susan Rice was looking at these,\u201d he told reporters Monday. \u201cAnd she needs to be asked, \u2018Did President Obama ask her to do this? Was this a directive from President Obama? \u00a0I think she should testify under oath on this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul said he has long thought there are too many people with the ability to unmask individuals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/03\/06\/a-bunch-of-questions-and-some-answers-about-trumps-wiretap-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\">law says<\/a> you can\u2019t reverse target people, but how would you know that once you get inside the brain and the people that are unmasking people,\u201d Paul continued. \u201cSo, what if I decided to unmask and I\u2019m there and I only unmask the conversations of my Democrat opponents \u2014 shouldn\u2019t there be more restrictions for unmasking people in the political process?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he believes there should be two individuals at the top of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/rand-paul-calls-for-susan-rice-to-testify-admist-surveillance-controversy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he believes former\u00a0National Security Advisor Susan Rice should testify before Congress on her request to unmask the names of Trump transition officials collected during routine intelligence-gathering operations. Paul argued the situation\u00a0should not be downplayed, saying reforms need to be made to prevent individuals from being blackmailed on personal aspects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-302084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}