Probe of Russian interference may be hypocritical.

Regarding John Kass’ column, “Susan Rice should fess up about U.S. spying on Trump transition,” in Thursday’s Sentinel: Did Rice unmask innocent American citizens in her review of National Security Agency intercepts with legally surveilled foreign officials and then leak their names to the media in order to cause trouble for the incoming Trump administration?

I don’t know, and neither do you. Her denial carries no probative weight. I would like to hear her interrogated under oath.

Did President Obama order electronic surveillance of Trump Tower during the presidential campaign and/or during the time between election and inauguration? I don’t know, and neither do you. Did Donald Trump collude with Russian operatives to help him win the presidency? I don’t know, and neither do you. Investigations of these questions are proceeding, and any statement of “no evidence to support the allegation” from friends, allies and supporters is premature.

On the question of meddling in our election: Foreign meddling in elections is old stuff. During the Cold War, amid fear that potent Communist parties in France and Italy might gain enough seats in parliamentary elections to affect Western foreign policy, the United States used the CIA to provide money to favored candidates and to front organizations extolling Washington’s line.

This suggests that investigation of Russian interference in our presidential election may be hypocritical. What’s the statute of limitations on hypocrisy? Paul Bloustein Cincinnati, Ohio