James Clapper eased rules on ‘unmasking’ procedures in 2013: Report

By Todd Shepherd

Published July 31, 2017 9:59pm ET

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James Clapper eased rules on ‘unmasking’ procedures in 2013: Report — The report relied in part on a newly released memo by former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper in 2013 that said the lawmakers or staffers' names could be unmasked if an intelligence agency under the executive branch thought that "the identity of the Member of Congress or the Congressional staff is necessary to understand and assess the associated intelligence and further a lawful activity of the recipient agency[.]"

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper revised rules in 2013 in a way that made it easier to “unmask” the names of lawmakers or congressional staffers who are incidentally caught in foreign surveillance.

The new procedures implemented by Clapper uprooted the previous set of rules that had been in use for just over two decades, according to a report from The Hill.

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