[LeonardFMason]

“The standard for senior officials to learn the names of U.S. persons incidentally collected is that it must have some foreign intelligence value, a standard that can apply to almost anything. This suggests Rice’s unmasking requests were likely within the law.”

FOR WHAT PURPOSE WERE THE NAMES UNMASKED? Can it be done on a whim?

[LeonardFMason]

AND

Trump should send a revised Tweet:

“Let me be more precise, Obama’s “plumbers” utilized a valuable surveillance tool, to “spy” on me and my team. Dirty tricks by sore losers. American people are disgusted.”

[Steely Tom]

“The standard for senior officials to learn the names of U.S. persons incidentally collected is that it must have some foreign intelligence value, a standard that can apply to almost anything. This suggests Rice’s unmasking requests were likely within the law.”

Well, I suppose in that case there are a great many communications between Hillary Clinton and members of her campaign staff that can be legally unmasked and distributed among the political levels of the Trump administration.