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EXCERPTS: Rice’s influence flows from her close relationship with Obama. Their ties go back to 2006, when she signed onto his first presidential campaign as a foreign policy advisor. “There is a reason why Obama has an intense loyalty to Susan,” a former NSC staffer said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal White House politics. “In 2006, she could have easily gone to the Hillary camp. She took a significant career risk by signing on with his campaign. He views her like a sister.”

Susan Rice, the former national security adviser reportedly responsible for making dozens of requests to unmask the names of Trump associates in raw intelligence reports, was known as having a close relationship with former President Obama. One former National Security Council staffer said Rice was “like a sister” to Obama, according to a glowing 2014 profile of Rice in liberal magazine Newsweek. The Newsweek profile was titled, “Susan Rice: Obama’s Right-Hand Woman.” Rice served as the Ambassador to the United Nations during Obama’s first term. It was in this capacity that she misled the public about the 2012 attacks on...