President Trump has claimed that the Obama administration bugged his Trump Tower offices. That accusation has been mostly dismissed.
But now it turns out that President-elect Trump and his transition team WERE surveilled.
House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-California) said that he has seen copies of reports “unmasking” the members of Trump’s transition team and their activities. This material was widely-circulated in the White House and in the Intelligence community.
Nunes says he believes the material was gathered legally, although information gleaned “incidentally” in the course of other investigations is supposed to be redacted. Nunes says the information gathered did not involve Russia connections.
From Austin Wright, Nunes: Trump transition members were under surveillance during Obama administration – POLITICO:
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 monitoring appeared to be done legally as a result of what’s called “incidental collection,” but said 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.”
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President Trump has claimed that the Obama administration bugged his Trump Tower offices. That accusation has been mostly dismissed.
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