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Lol@ all of the Trumpetts grasping at straws and thinking this is a good thing for Trump.
This is a very good thing for Trump - proves he was right. The billion dollar question is: who ordered it and was it legal? Who "unmasked" the identity of those being recorded? This is a HUGE deal and is not going away.
Members of the intelligence community collected "incidental" communications of the Trump transition team during legal surveillance operations of foreign targets, a top Republican lawmaker said Wednesday afternoon.
House Intelligence Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said this produced "dozens" of reports which eventually unmasked several individuals’ identities and were "widely disseminated."
He said none of the reports he had read mentioned Russia or Russians and he was unsure whether the surveillance occurred at Trump Tower -- as President Trump has suggested. Nunes also was unsure if then President-elect Trump was captured by the surveillance, which occurred in November, December and January.
“I recently confirmed on numerous occasions the intelligence community incidentally collected intelligence,” Nunes said.
The revelations could at least partially back up some allegations made by Trump earlier this month, in which he tweeted that former President Barack Obama had "wiretapped" him, though top lawmakers have sharply disputed those claims.
Nunes said he told House Speaker Paul Ryan earlier Wednesday and was set to tell Trump and the White House later in the afternoon.
"There’s a lot of questions that need to get asked," White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said.
He said the NSA had been "very helpful" during the investigation, however, he was unsure if "the FBI is going to comply."
Nunes said the surveillance collection was "legally collected foreign intelligence under FISA incidental collection." But Nunes said he was "alarmed" the intelligence "ended up in reporting channels and was widely disseminated."
It was previously reported that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was "unmasked" in this way, however, Nunes said "additional names" were unmasked as well.
He said he didn't know what foreign intelligence value the surveillance had "and why people would need to know that about President-elect Trump and his transition team." Nunes did not identify which foreign targets were under surveillance.
Asked if he thought Trump was spied on, Nunes replied: "I'm not gonna get into legal definitions here, but clearly I have a concern."
The campaign should have been more careful about hiring guys having 2 degrees of separation from Putin, both of whom were on the Russians' payroll and one of who was laundering Russian money and doing his darndest to help Putin. How do they know who is even working for them now?
Those doing the hiring appear to be incompetent and Trump doesn't have time to think about this stuff--very busy tweeting and golfing.
This is a very good thing for Trump - proves he was right. The billion dollar question is: who ordered it and was it legal? Who "unmasked" the identity of those being recorded? This is a HUGE deal and is not going away.
Nunes himself confirmed that the surveillance was legal. Good luck though!
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