Rice was one of 20 people who have the ability to unmask American citizens who have been caught up in foreign intelligence gathering. How is it odd for her, when given a report that just refers to someone as "American citizen" to request that their name be unmasked?

I would see the severity of this if it was revealed that the intelligence community was targeting Trump specifically, with no evidence of Russian attempts to influence the election. But the intelligence community increased their surveillance of Russian actors as facts were revealed about Russian actions (just read that great Wash PO (?) article about the Obama admin's response). In that push, they swept up American citizens and unmasked their identities to understand who was talking with Russian actors. It turns out some of those people were connected to the Trump campaign.

With all of the information that is public, there really isn't evidence to try and make this into an issue. If there had been more to come out and more people in the current admin were publicly investigating, than I would be skeptical too. But McMaster holds a lot of weight, IMO, and without other evidence, I'm just not sold on this being a big deal. My mind could be changed with more evidencr - either direct or circumstantial.