
The move gave cover to the White House but was rebuked by top Democrats.
By AUSTIN WRIGHT
03/22/17 01:19 PM EDT
Updated 03/22/17 06:48 PM EDT
House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes declared Wednesday that members of Donald Trump’s transition team, possibly including Trump himself, were under inadvertent surveillance following November’s presidential election.
The White House and Trump’s allies immediately seized on the statement as vindication of the president’s much-maligned claim that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower phones — even though Nunes himself said that’s not what his new information shows.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/devin-nunes-donald-trump-surveillance-obama-236366