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- Susan Rice, the former national security adviser, said through her attorney Friday that she documented a controversial January 2017 meeting she had with senior Obama administration officials because they were “justifiably concerned” about ties between Russia and members of the incoming Trump administration.
- Rice’s attorney said she memorialized the meeting upon the advice of the White House counsel’s office, and that she was not aware of the existence of the FBI’s Russia investigation at the time.
- That Rice acted to document the meeting after being advised to do so by the White House counsel’s office is a key indication of how concerned the Obama administration was about the potential national-security risks of sharing classified intelligence with the Trump transition team.
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The attorney representing former national security adviser Susan Rice said Friday that Rice memorialized a January 2017 meeting between herself and senior Obama administration and law enforcement officials because they were “justifiably concerned” about the risks that could come with sharing classified intelligence with President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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