{"id":6199,"date":"2017-07-18T16:57:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T16:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/?p=6199"},"modified":"2017-07-18T16:59:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T16:59:22","slug":"susan-rice-will-no-longer-testify-about-unmasking-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/18\/susan-rice-will-no-longer-testify-about-unmasking-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Rice Will No Longer Testify About \u2018Unmasking\u2019 Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline clearfix\">\n<div class=\"byline-byline\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/author\/kgregerson\/\">Ann<\/a> | <span class=\"byline-date\">July 18, 2017 11:16AM<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Susan Rice was scheduled for a closed-door testimony Tuesday before the\u00a0House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence concerning allegations that she \u201cunmasked\u201d associates of President Trump during the Russia probe. However, her testimony has been postponed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/07\/17\/susan-rice-set-to-face-capitol-hill-questions-on-alleged-trump-team-unmasking.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planned to grill<\/a> Rice on her role in the investigations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rice had been expected to face tough questions on her role in the matter while serving as then-President Barack Obama\u2019s national security adviser. Trump alleges Rice may have committed a crime by asking government analysts to disclose the names of his associates documented in intelligence reports.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan last week told Fox News that he wants Rice to answer the basic question: \u201cDid you unmask the names and if so why?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump\u2019s former national security adviser Mike Flynn was reportedly among those unmasked by Rice. He subsequently <a href=\"http:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/michael-flynn-president-trump-responds-resignation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned<\/a> from his position.<\/p>\n<p>Rice, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/07\/17\/susan-rice-set-to-face-capitol-hill-questions-on-alleged-trump-team-unmasking.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continues to deny<\/a> any wrongdoing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rice has denied that she did anything inappropriate, saying she was authorized as Obama\u2019s national security adviser to seek the identities of people whose names were redacted from intelligence reports.<\/p>\n<p>And she has suggested that her race and gender may be playing a role in the controversy, in a recent New York Magazine interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congressional investigators have issued\u00a0subpoenas to the NSA, CIA, and FBI seeking \u201cunmasking\u201d information related to three people: Rice, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power. But now that Rice\u2019s testimony has been delayed, many are calling on Congress to subpoena Rice herself.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ann | July 18, 2017 11:16AM Susan Rice was scheduled for a closed-door testimony Tuesday before the\u00a0House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence concerning allegations that she \u201cunmasked\u201d associates of President Trump during the Russia probe. However, her testimony has been postponed. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-politics","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6201,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions\/6201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}