claim: "it is unusual" for a white house official like former national security adviser susan rice to make unmasking requests.
author: tom cotton
evidence_1: apr 4, 2017 ... president trump and his aides have been doing all they can to divert ... susan  rice's alleged “unmasking” wasn't illegal, or even unusual. by fred kaplan.  susan rice then–national security adviser susan rice during an interview ...  out of the ordinary for a white house official like rice, with high security ...
evidence_2: apr 3, 2017 ... white house lawyers last month discovered that the former national security  adviser susan rice requested the identities of u.s. ... or current officials, it would  not be unusual for a national security adviser to try to ... assuming lake's story is  accurate, why would rice have wanted to have names unmasked?
evidence_3: apr 5, 2017 ... while susan rice is defending as routine her requests for the identities of ...  levels of government say the former national security adviser's requests were  quite unusual. ... white house ... rice's defenders also have said unmasking  requests would be a typical part of her ... sponsored stories you may like.
evidence_4: apr 4, 2017 ... susan rice's white house unmasking: a watergate-style scandal ... that susan  rice, president obama's national-security adviser, confidant, ... understand:  there would have been no intelligence need for susan rice to .... meanwhile,  former obama officials and clinton-campaign advisers, like farkas, ...
evidence_5: apr 3, 2017 ... white house lawyers last month learned that the former national security adviser  susan rice requested the identities of u.s. persons ... of monitored  conversations and appear in reports as something like "u.s. person one. ...  rice's requests to unmask the names of trump transition officials do not vindicate  ...