{"id":226533,"date":"2017-03-22T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=226533"},"modified":"2017-03-24T16:24:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T20:24:34","slug":"trump-is-right-nunes-says-trump-team-was-under-surveillance-after-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/22\/trump-is-right-nunes-says-trump-team-was-under-surveillance-after-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Is Right! Nunes Says Trump and His Team Were Under Surveillance After the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I have to share this with you. Two different sources… Well, actually it\u2019s one source, Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. It\u2019s two stories here, CNN and The Politico. First, the Politico. Ready? Headline: “Trump Transition Members Were Under Surveillance During Obama Administration.<\/a>” Now, look, this is gonna be treated as big news. But if you go back to the first hour of this program, go back to yesterday, folks, there\u2019s no way this could not have been happening for all that news that was made!<\/p>\n

\"\"From September, October, November, December — particularly November, December — and January during the Trump transition with all this leaking coming from sources deep inside the intelligence community and all this, this leaked data that was being reported. There had to be some surveillance going on for any of this to be known, including Mike Flynn talking to the Russian ambassador. So Devin Nunes had a press conference this afternoon. “House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) told reporters this afternoon that members of the Donald Trump transition team, possibly including Trump himself, were under surveillance during the Obama administration following November\u2019s election. …<\/p>\n

“According to Nunes the surveillance appears to have been legal, incidental collection and that it does not appear to have been related to concerns over collusion with Russia. … According to Nunes he will be going to the White House later Wednesday to brief the Trump administration on what he has learned, which he said came from ‘sources.'” From the CNN version of the story: “House Intel Chairman: Trump\u2019s Personal Communications May Have Been Collected — House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes said Wednesday that President Donald Trump\u2019s personal communications may have been picked up by investigators through ‘incidental collection.'”<\/p>\n

Folks, let me tell you what this means. They had to be doing this! This is exactly… I wish I could find it, remember the exact day and the transcript, \u2019cause I remember… I almost word-for-word said something along the lines of, “Let me tell you what I think happened here. I think security agencies were surveilling all kinds of foreign actors, and they end up talking to Americans, and therefore these people were also under surveillance even though they weren\u2019t targeted, and there are procedures to keep those people and what they say quiet, private, undisclosed, what have you.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called “masking,” and this was admitted to by Comey on Monday, that indeed this is the procedure, and they were discussing the unmasking of an individual… His name never came up, but it was Mike Flynn they were talking about. “Nunes said at a news conference he discovered the potential surveillance of Trump himself while reviewing intelligence reports, but said it was not related to Russia. ‘This is a normal, incidental collection, based on what I could collect,\u2019 Nunes said. ‘This appears to be all legally collected foreign intelligence under\u2019 the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.”<\/p>\n