While being very careful to avoid calling this a “smoking gun,” Fox News’ Brit Hume said that the recent report that Susan Rice was behind the “unmasking” of Trump aides in U.S. intelligence legitimizes the investigation.
He also said she needs to testify about the matter.
Hume is pretty egalitarian here though – he says that both tracks of investigations are now of equal political importance, the Republican investigation into surveillance of Trump, and the Democrat investigation of Trump’s possible ties to Russia.
So IF Susan Rice was also behind the leaking of Flynn’s name, then she committed a felony, and she’ll be in big trouble. The unmasking, on its own, doesn’t prove a whole lot, as the process can be legal, and reasonable, and our suspicions against Rice aren’t really admissible in a court of law.
