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Ron Johnson: “Under Obama's last couple of years is under 10,000…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Sen. Johnson Discusses Unmasking on CNN's 'State of the Union'

Published | Video Starts at 12:04

If this is something that can be abused, something you're concerned about, are you using any of your oversight capacity to investigate what the Trump administration is doing as well. Almost 17,000 unmasking requests in 2018. Right. I saw that report that Under Obama's last couple of years is under 10,000 [unmasking requests]. And now the last couple years, it's been 16, 17,000. And that troubles me. So, absolutely, I'm going to be looking into that. I want to know exactly what happened. (12:04–12:11)

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Asserts that unmasking requests were under 10,000 during Obama's last years and have increased to 16,000-17,000 recently.

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