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<blockquote data-quote="SueEllenRules!" data-source="post: 51420" data-attributes="member: 87"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">Monitoring May Have ‘Incidentally’ Picked Up Trump Aides, House Member Says</span></strong></p><p><em>WASHINGTON — The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Devin Nunes of California, suggested on Wednesday that American intelligence agencies monitoring foreign officials may have “incidentally” picked up communications of Trump transition team members.</em></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A short time later, the White House appeared to latch on to Mr. Nunes’s statement as evidence that Mr. Trump was right when he claimed in a series of Twitter posts this month to have been “wiretapped” by the Obama administration during the campaign. “I think it’s startling information,” Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, told reporters.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">But the intelligence collection described by Mr. Nunes, known as “incidental collection,” indicates that the targets of American intelligence gathering were foreign officials, not specific members of the Trump transition or Mr. Trump himself.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In fact, any American citizen who talks, messages or emails with a foreign official under surveillance would be picked up by intelligence agencies. This would include Obama administration officials and private citizens like journalists and business people.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It by no means indicates that Mr. Trump himself was under direct surveillance. James B. Comey, the director of the F.B.I., told the Intelligence Committee on Monday that the president was at no point the target of court-ordered surveillance during or after the 2016 presidential campaign.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mr. Comey’s statement seemed to settle the matter for everyone outside the White House. But Mr. Nunes, who served on Mr. Trump’s transition team, appeared on Wednesday to reopen the question with his comments, which were often vague.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">“On numerous occasions the intelligence community incidentally collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition,” Mr. Nunes said at a news conference on Capitol Hill. “Details about U.S. persons, details associated with the incoming administration — details with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value — were widely disseminated in intelligence community reporting.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mr. Nunes declined to say where he learned of the surveillance, but he said none of the information collected had anything to do with the F.B.I.’s investigation into the links between the Trump campaign and Russia.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">“I want to be clear: None of this surveillance was related to Russia or the investigation of activities,” Mr. Nunes said.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mr. Nunes also said he was not sure whether Mr. Trump’s communications were collected.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">“When we talk about intelligence products here, we’ve got to be very careful,” Mr. Nunes said. “And what I know right now, it looks like incidental collection. We don’t know exactly how that was picked up. But we’re trying to get to the bottom of it.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mr. Spicer read Mr. Nunes’s statement during his news briefing Wednesday afternoon and said Mr. Nunes planned to come to the White House this afternoon to brief the president.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Intelligence agencies are permitted to record calls even if they involve American citizens.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Afterward, when the raw intelligence — in this case, a transcript — is turned into a finished report and distributed to other parts of the government, the name of any American picked up incidentally is normally masked. But names can be unmasked for counterintelligence or counterterrorism investigations, or if they are needed to understand the context of the intelligence or its importance.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Knowledgeable officials can also sometimes figure out from the context who the American is. And some senior officials, such as the president or national security adviser, can ask to have the name unmasked.</li> </ul><p><a href="https://apple.news/AWrMkFIcdRj6hMg3FbUhuLw" target="_blank">https://apple.news/AWrMkFIcdRj6hMg3FbUhuLw</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SueEllenRules!, post: 51420, member: 87"] [B][SIZE=6]Monitoring May Have ‘Incidentally’ Picked Up Trump Aides, House Member Says[/SIZE][/B] [I]WASHINGTON — The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Devin Nunes of California, suggested on Wednesday that American intelligence agencies monitoring foreign officials may have “incidentally” picked up communications of Trump transition team members.[/I] [LIST] [*]A short time later, the White House appeared to latch on to Mr. Nunes’s statement as evidence that Mr. Trump was right when he claimed in a series of Twitter posts this month to have been “wiretapped” by the Obama administration during the campaign. “I think it’s startling information,” Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, told reporters. [*]But the intelligence collection described by Mr. Nunes, known as “incidental collection,” indicates that the targets of American intelligence gathering were foreign officials, not specific members of the Trump transition or Mr. Trump himself. [*]In fact, any American citizen who talks, messages or emails with a foreign official under surveillance would be picked up by intelligence agencies. This would include Obama administration officials and private citizens like journalists and business people. [*]It by no means indicates that Mr. Trump himself was under direct surveillance. James B. Comey, the director of the F.B.I., told the Intelligence Committee on Monday that the president was at no point the target of court-ordered surveillance during or after the 2016 presidential campaign. [*]Mr. Comey’s statement seemed to settle the matter for everyone outside the White House. But Mr. Nunes, who served on Mr. Trump’s transition team, appeared on Wednesday to reopen the question with his comments, which were often vague. [*]“On numerous occasions the intelligence community incidentally collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition,” Mr. Nunes said at a news conference on Capitol Hill. “Details about U.S. persons, details associated with the incoming administration — details with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value — were widely disseminated in intelligence community reporting.” [*]Mr. Nunes declined to say where he learned of the surveillance, but he said none of the information collected had anything to do with the F.B.I.’s investigation into the links between the Trump campaign and Russia. [*]“I want to be clear: None of this surveillance was related to Russia or the investigation of activities,” Mr. Nunes said. [*]Mr. Nunes also said he was not sure whether Mr. Trump’s communications were collected. [*]“When we talk about intelligence products here, we’ve got to be very careful,” Mr. Nunes said. “And what I know right now, it looks like incidental collection. We don’t know exactly how that was picked up. But we’re trying to get to the bottom of it.” [*]Mr. Spicer read Mr. Nunes’s statement during his news briefing Wednesday afternoon and said Mr. Nunes planned to come to the White House this afternoon to brief the president. [*]Intelligence agencies are permitted to record calls even if they involve American citizens. [*]Afterward, when the raw intelligence — in this case, a transcript — is turned into a finished report and distributed to other parts of the government, the name of any American picked up incidentally is normally masked. But names can be unmasked for counterintelligence or counterterrorism investigations, or if they are needed to understand the context of the intelligence or its importance. [*]Knowledgeable officials can also sometimes figure out from the context who the American is. And some senior officials, such as the president or national security adviser, can ask to have the name unmasked. [/LIST] [URL]https://apple.news/AWrMkFIcdRj6hMg3FbUhuLw[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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