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Ben Rhodes new focus of 'unmasking' investigationFox News, Aug 2, 2017Ben Rhodes, the longtime aide to former President Barack Obama who once bragged he didn’t “know anymore where I begin and Obama ends,” is the new focus of a House probe examining whether Obama staffers improperly requested the identities of American citizens during the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes wrote to National Security Agency head Adm. Michael Rogers on Aug. 1 requesting “the total number of unmasking requests made by” Rhodes in the 13 months preceding President Trump’s inauguration. “Unmasking” refers to the formal request to identify Americans in an intelligence document.<snip>The Intelligence Committee “found evidence that current and former government officials had easy access to U.S. person information and that it is possible that they used this information to achieve partisan political purposes, including the selective, anonymous leaking of such information,” Nunes wrote in a July letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.He added that one unidentified official had made “hundreds of unmasking requests during the final year of the Obama Administration” and only one of those requests “offered a justification that was not boilerplate and articulated why” the identity of the person was needed.Nunes’ letter appeared to reference Power as the anonymous official. Power’s attorney denied she leaked classified information but didn’t address the larger issues in Nunes’ letter.More: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/02/ben-rhodes-new-focus-unmasking-investigation.html