Former U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice is in the news again. Yesterday’s news reports all centered on her possible role in “unmasking” the names of the Trump transition team who got caught up in incidental surveillance, and then leaking the information to individuals both within and without the government who were not legally entitled to have such information. These are only allegations of course, but they do tie in with the fact that former President Obama made it possible on January 12 when his administration finalized new rules that allowed the National Security Agency (NSA) to share information it gleans from its vast international surveillance apparatus with the 16 other agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community. Rice first came up on my news radar following the attack on our Consulate at Benghazi on September 11, 2012, when she was sent out to five news outlets, under the tutelage of Ben Rhodes, to inform the American people that we had nothing t