As I noted earlier, Susan Rice has been under the microscope today… an experience I dearly hope continues for her… over allegations that she engaged in a nearly wholesale unmasking of US persons who were swept up in “incidental” surveillance by intelligence agencies and who were also affiliated with the Trump campaign. Though probably not illegal, as it has been described, carrying out surveillance of members of an incoming administration and widely distributing the product of that surveillance with the names exposed is not part of the American political tradition.

Now comes the weakest sauce refutation in the history of weak sauce refutations:

Just in: "The idea that Ambassador Rice improperly sought the identities of Americans is false." – person close to Rice tells me

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 3, 2017

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/849048628652068866

Susan Rice's husband told me she did nothing wrong you guys #Journamalism

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 4, 2017

Total mystery who Sciutto's trusted source close to Rice is pic.twitter.com/n2Hpx5mKSx

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 4, 2017

To quote someone really famous, it is SAD!! when you trot out the person’s husband as a character reference. It pretty much says that no one else has anything good to say and given Rice’s estrangement from the truth that isn’t hard to believe.