Former President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser Susan Rice ordered spy agencies in the U.S. to produce “detailed spreadsheets” on the phone calls of Donald Trump and his aides beginning a year before the election, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova.
The reaction of former NSC senior director Michael Doran to DiGenova’s revelation was particularly severe: “Somebody blew a hole in the wall between national security secrets and partisan politics,” revealing “a stream of information that was supposed to be hermetically sealed from politics.” “This is a leaking of signal intelligence,” Doran continued. “That’s a felony, and you can get 10 years for that. It is a tremendous abuse of the system. We’re not supposed to be monitoring American citizens. Bigger than the crime, is the breach of public trust.