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Today officials authorize today know. Trump supporters complaining about the source of leaks rather than the substance of the leak, jim sciutto. Reporter a source close to ambassador susan rice tells me the claims she improperly unmasked u. S. Citizens caught up in surveillance is in a word false coming from ambassador rice, but ive also spoken to Senior Intelligence officials from democratic and republican administrations to ask them about the process of unmasking. Is it unusual, illegal . And the answer is usually no, not unusual, not illegal. They say a couple of things, one the law allows it, two for it to happen the official requests, the Intelligence Community has to approve it, it is often times approved because that official wants to provide more information as they are reading Intelligence Report they want to know more about the significance, that is shared between the briefer. Its possible that official could do that him or herself but by nature of it it is only exchanged one to one. There are open questions how extensive was the unmasking, what was the source, but this practice is not unusual, it happens, and two, it certainly is not illegal. There are protocols for the unmasking under certain rules. Thanks to jim sciutto. We have to apologize we used video that was conda lee za rice. That was a snafu. Sorry, everybody. Trump officials were incidentally surveilled, listen. I know nothing about this. I was surprise today see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today. Okay. So a lot about the credibility here of susan rice said there on pbs news hour she knew nothing of this, surprised of it in the context she misled the public from the Benghazi Attack due to an internet video, there is some questions about her credibility related to truth with the american people. 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He may be the person that President Trump trusts the most, soninlaw Jared Kushnerincludes advising the president , Brokering Middle East peace, restore the department of Veterans Affairs and help end Drug Addiction and shadowing the Secretary Of State at maintaining relations with mexico, canada and china. Is that all. And now add iraq to the list. He is there meeting with the iraqs Prime Minister leading a coalition on the fight against isis. Sean spicer said he was there at the invitation of the chairman of joint chiefs and said he wanted to see what was going on for himself. Reporter as if he didnt have enough to do already why not add iraq to the portfolio of your long responsibilities. He was taking part in meetings with chairman of Joint Chiefs Of Staff in addition to Steven Townsend who leads the international coalition against isis. They were meeting with iraqi Prime Minister, discussing the Battle For Mosul which at the moment has reached a difficult point where there is street to street house to house fighting, mounting civilian casualties and talked about the future of the involvement of United States in iraq after isis is destroyed whether its going to maintain some sort of presence. Obviously there are some ruffled feathers that need to be smoothed in iraq keeping in mind mr. Trump as candidate and as president suggested that the United States might have a future opportunity to take iraqs oil, it was included the first travel ban proposed by President Trump in the second version issued now on hold because of the courts. Iraq was removed. Many iraqis, despite all that, seem to admire mr. Trump, see him as a strong man, we have reported on iraqis who named their babies after trump, restaurants after trump, so mr. Kushner though hes no New Territory not necessarily hostile. 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Naming president Obamas National Security adviser susan rice as the official requesting the unmasking, what are we talking about . Unmasking is not the same as leaking. Unmasking is revealed to officials only authorized to know. The leak of the Susan Rice Information has the president trying to stir the pot. More on unmasking and response from susan rice lets bring in jim sciutto. Reporter a source close to susan rice tells me the claims she improperly unmasking names of u. S. Sincitizens caught up i surveillance is false coming from ambassador rice, but ive talked to both democratic and republican administration to ask about unmasking, one they say the law allows it, two, for it to happen the official requests it but the u. S. Intelligence committee has to approve the request, often times it is approved because that official wants to provide more information, as theyre reading Intelligence Report they want to know more about what it means, that information is only shared between the briefer from the Intelligence Community and that official, its not more widely disseminated. Its possible that the official could do that him or herself, but by nature only exchanged one to one, how extensive was the unmasking, but this i know from speaking to intelligence officials is that this practice is not unusual, it happens and there are protocols specifically established after 9 11 to allow for unmasking under certain rules. Thank you. Susan rice was asked last month that Trump Officia