Lindsey Graham: There's 'reason to believe' conversation was 'unmasked' [View all]
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham said that he has “reason to believe” that somebody in the government requested that a conversation he had with a foreign person be "unmasked."
“I’ve got information that suggests that I was incidentally collected. I don’t know if I was unmasked or not but I’ve sent a letter to the NSA, the FBI and the CIA requesting any collection of Lindsey Graham,” the South Carolina senator said Friday in an interview with Fox News' America's Newsroom. “Here’s the concern, did the people in the Obama administration listen in to these conversations? Was there politicizing of the intelligence gathering process?”
While it is illegal for the U.S. government to record its citizens, conversations that include Americans can be incidentally recorded if the government is monitoring a foreigner who is talking about or to an American. Usually the names of the individuals are blacked out, but officials can request the identity be "unmasked" if it is necessary for understanding of the intelligence.
Graham’s comments come as there is an increased focus on the number of leaks from the intelligence community.
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