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Reports show surveillance of Trump team

House Intel Chair Devin Nunes: Reports show 'incidental' surveillance of Trump team during transition

By Todd Shepherd
3/22/17 1:20 PM

House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said Wednesday that new intelligence reports show that some conversations involving members of President Trump's transition team were collected by intelligence officials, but said those conversations appeared to be collected "legally" in the course of "normal, foreign surveillance."

Nunes said the information was legally brought to him by persons who thought the Intelligence Committee ought to have the information, and Nunes said it appeared that most of the incidental collection appeared to happen in November, December and January — essentially the transition months for the Trump presidency.

Nunes' disclosure comes just two days after the committee held their first open hearing on the investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 campaign.

He said he was surprised and "alarmed" by the new discovery. But he also said he doesn't have enough information to say whether any intelligence was collected on Trump or his team beyond routine foreign surveillance.

Additionally, Nunes said from the information he had seen, the information collected in the surveillance had little or nothing to do at all with Russia, or members of the Russian government.

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