Former NatSec Advisor under Obama, Susan Rice, blamed race and gender for the unmasking backlash she received in an interview with New York Magazine when asked why she thinks she became a target.
Susan Rice is now the target? Not Trump and his private associates who were illegally unmasked for political purposes? Got it.
I ask Rice why she thinks she became a target. She laughs, sort of. “I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this. What do you think?”
I mention Benghazi, the moment when much of the right’s base became aware of Rice’s existence. “Does it start there?” she asks. She is not a person given to agitation, but here, Rice’s focus sharpens — she looks at me more directly, with heightened intensity. “And why me? Why not Jay Carney, for example, who was then our press secretary, who stood up more?”
Carney isn’t an African-American woman, of course. Does Rice credit that for the disproportionate amount of scrutiny she’s gotten? “I don’t know,” she replies. “I’m not being a smartass when I say I’ve given this a lot of thought, and I’m trying to understand it better,” she says. “All that stuff happened while I was a sitting public servant. I perhaps mistakenly assumed that once I was no longer a sitting public servant, and a private citizen minding my own business and trying to go to my daughter’s soccer games with more regularity, that I would not be of interest to these folks. Um … Silly me. So this has prompted me to really try to get underneath that question.”
She mentions that other women in public life of all races have come in for some pretty rough treatment. Hillary. Condoleezza Rice. The other Rice, says this Rice, “took a lot of stuff. Not, frankly, I don’t think, to the same extent I have, but that was ad hominem.” I point out that she has a reputation for being tough, and a strong-willed woman who seems sure of herself makes a certain kind of man nervous.
“Let me just put it this way,” she says. “I do not leap to the simple explanation that it’s only about race and gender. I’m trying to keep my theories to myself until I’m ready to come out with them. It’s not because I don’t have any.”
As TGP previously reported, Senior Fox News Correspondent, Adam Housley revealed that Intel Chair Devin Nunes (R-CA) knows who unmasked the identities of Trump and his close associates.
Sources also told him that the unmasking was purely for political purposes to embarrass Trump and had NOTHING to do with national security.
Independent journalist and author, Mike Cernovich first revealed that the unmasker is indeed former NatSec Advisor, Susan Rice.
Susan Rice has a history or lying. She made a name for herself when she said the Benghazi massacre was a protest and when she defended deserter Bowe Bergdahl for ‘serving admirably.”
But this has everything to do with the fact that she’s an African-American woman, not that she’s a corrupt person. Got it.
