By AUSTIN WRIGHT
03/22/17 01:19 PM EDT
Updated 03/22/17 02:36 PM EDT
Members of the Donald Trump transition team, possibly including Trump himself, were under U.S. government surveillance following November’s presidential election, House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told reporters Wednesday.
Nunes said the surveillance appeared to be legal but that he was concerned because it was not related to the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s meddling in the election and was widely disseminated across the intelligence community.
“I have seen intelligence reports that clearly show that the president-elect and his team were, I guess, at least monitored,” Nunes told reporters. “It looks to me like it was all legally collected, but it was essentially a lot of information on the president-elect and his transition team and what they were doing.”
Nunes said he is heading to the White House later Wednesday to brief Trump on what he has learned, which he said came from “sources who thought that we should know it.” He said he was trying to get more information by Friday from the FBI, CIA and NSA.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/devin-nunes-donald-trump-surveillance-obama-236366
Legally collected. Why is this significant?
you really dont know?
Know what? Please, do tell.
Wow! Karma sure is a bitch. Can’t wait until we can all chant “lock him up!”. What a fake president.
sorry Obummer and gang are in trouble and the media looks stupid as usual
I don’t. Can you say more?
James- it seems like it’s your dude who is in trouble. How is Obama even crossing your ridiculous fingers? Legally collected. End of story. The only news here is that they are fastly closing in on Manafort. This fake presidency is on its last breath.
we will see about that , as for the fake Russian story Hillary and Pedesta have a lot of explaining to do
Legally collected. Illegally disseminated.
Why would those very busy trump campaign staff members be talking to individuals under surveillance?
Can’t wait for the transcripts?
You are known by your friends.
so the FBI lied when they said there was no surveillance?
INCIDENTIAL SURVEILLANCE!
Not our fault they were communicating with people under surveillance. They should have known better. They were blinded by the ambition of their damaged candidate.
Legally collected simply means the prescribed authorizations were obtained. That’s all.
Let’s say you are actively monitoring all communications by Person A, and capture a conversation between Person A and Person B. Does that mean Person B was “under surveillance”? No! It’s called incidental capture. Person A was the one under surveillance, not Person B.
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So capturing conversations between someone under surveillance (Person A) and a Trump staff member (Person B) is completely consistent with FBI saying that Trump staff (Person B) were not under surveillance.
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This is simple.