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

Published July 31, 2017 9:59pm ET



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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