Gowdy: Congress Will Subpoena Susan Rice to Testify About Unmasking if Necessary

Gowdy: Congress Will Subpoena Susan Rice to Testify About Unmasking if Necessary (The Washington Free Beacon)

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) told Fox News on Thursday morning that Congress may subpoena Barack Obama's former national security adviser, Susan Rice, to testify about unmasking Trump transition officials.

Rice declined an invitation to testify next week before a Senate subcommittee on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. Republicans have asked Rice to appear before lawmakers after reports revealed last month that she requested on several occasions the identities of "masked" U.S. persons in intelligence reports linked to President Trump's transition and campaign.

The Americans' conversations were caught incidentally in surveillance of foreigners being monitored by the intelligence community.