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A declassified document is photographed Wednesday, May 13, 2020. The document includes names of officials in President Barack Obama's administration who made requests for the unmasking of Michael Flynn's name. The document was declassified by acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell. -Photo by AP / Jon ElswickWASHINGTON -- Three Republican senators on Wednesday made public a recently declassified list of U. S. officials, including former Vice President Joe Biden, who purportedly sought to "unmask" Donald Trump's adviser Michael Flynn in late 2016 and early 2017. The list includes the names of more than three dozen former officials of President Barack Obama's administration. Among them are Biden, former White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, former FBI director James Comey, former CIA director John Brennan and former director of national intelligence James Clapper. The list was recently declassified by Trump's top intelligence adviser, Richard Grenell, and given to the Justice Department. Grenell subsequently provided the list, at their request, to Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Rand Paul, R-Ky., who made it public. A cover letter indicates that those on the list submitted requests to the National Security Agency between Nov. 8, 2016, and Jan. 31, 2017, to "unmask" Flynn, though a note on the list itself suggests it was unknown whether all the officials actually "saw the unmasked information."Unmasking is a routine practice used to identify a U. S. person who is anonymously referred to in an intelligence document, meant to help government officials better understand what they are reading. But conservatives have said Flynn's unmasking indicates he was treated unfairly by U. S. law enforcement and intelligence officials. Early in the Trump administration, the effort to scrutinize unmasking was pushed in part by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., though the House Intelligence Committee he chaired also asked U. S. spy agencies to reveal the names of U. S. individuals or organizations contained in classified intelligence on Russia's interference in the 2016 election. Kerri Kupec, a Justice Department spokeswoman, told Fox News on Tuesday that U. S. Attorney John Durham -- who is examining the FBI's investigation of the Trump campaign and possible connections with Russia in 2016 -- was "already looking at this issue of unmasking," and would consider the recently declassified list "if it's pertinent.""I can tell you that his team is working diligently to get to the bottom of what happened, Kupec told host Martha MacCallum. "Because, Martha, what happened to candidate Trump and then President Trump was one of the greatest political injustices in American history and should never happen again."Some conservatives have connected unmasking to Flynn's late-December 2016 phone calls with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, who was the target of U. S. surveillance.

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