Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s now-public email to herself documenting a sensitive Obama White House meeting concerning the Russia probe appeared to be an effort to make sure history was written in 'their narrative,' current and former Trump administration officials argue.
"That email looks like it's written to cover the whole upper level of the administration," said former Trump DOJ Official Ian Prior, who maintains the Rice email was likely the result of discussions between Rice and senior White House officials, rather than at the direction of the White House Counsel's Office. "It's written so if the contents of that meeting are ever exposed, that the history will be written in their narrative.
Details from the email about Obama’s comments during that meeting had already been made public. But Comey’s remarks had been classified until this week. On Jan. 23, 2017, The Washington Post broke the story that the FBI was looking into communications between Flynn and Kislyak, three days after the Oval Office meeting memorialized in Rice's email.
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