between the Trump transition team and Russia when he met with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak late last year, The Washington
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Former CIA Director: 'Now we know' why Trump officials talking to the Russians may have been 'unmasked'
Michael Hayden, the former director of the NSA and the CIA, told CNN on Saturday that the reported content of Jared Kushner's conversations with Russia's ambassador in December may have motivated former national security adviser Susan Rice to request his name to be unmasked in intelligence reports.
U.S. President George W. Bush announces his nomination of General Michael Hayden (R) to head the CIA at the White House in Washington May 8, 2006.
ecure line that would essentially conceal the administration's interactions with Russian officials from US government scrutiny.
NSA "is notoriously conservative in revealing US identities in its reporting."
"Obviously, a request from the national security adviser to unmask an identity would be given great weight," Hayden said. "That said, it is not automatic and goes through a carefully documented process at the NSA before an identity is unmasked."
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There is another reason why Rice may have wanted to unmask Kushner, said Paul Pillar,
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