Speaker Ryan: Unmasking of Trump associates seems politicized

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) says he thinks the unmasking of associates of President Donald Trump by officials appears to have been politicized. Unmasking refers to restoring a US citizen’s name in intelligence surveillance reports. American citizens' names are redacted from such reports when incidentally collected during foreign surveillance. Speaker Ryan said unmasking information and then leaking it to the media is a crime. “That is a crime. And so that is taking classified information, unclassifying it, and leaking it out. That is something somebody in the Obama administration decided to do,” Speaker Ryan said.