NOW BLOOMBERG’S REPORTING IT: Top Obama Adviser Sought Names of Trump Associates in Intel.

White House lawyers last month discovered that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The pattern of Rice’s requests was discovered in a National Security Council review of the government’s policy on “unmasking” the identities of individuals in the U.S. who are not targets of electronic eavesdropping, but whose communications are collected incidentally. Normally those names are redacted from summaries of monitored conversations and appear in reports as something like “U.S. Person One.” . . . Indeed, much about this is highly unusual: if not how the surveillance was collected, then certainly how and why it was disseminated.

Everyone involved should be investigated, and everyone who abused their power — which, I suspect, will be a lot of people — should be prosecuted.