“What I’ve read bothers me, and I think it should bother the president himself and his team…I think some of it seems to be inappropriate…It definitely goes beyond what happened to Gen. Flynn.”
By Alexis Simendinger & Caitlin Huey-Burns, RealClear Politics:
President Trump learned from the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee Wednesday that his communications may have been intercepted as a byproduct of legal surveillance by the federal intelligence community.
Trump said he felt “somewhat” vindicated by information that Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a California Republican, shared with him during a hastily scheduled White House meeting. The chairman said he became concerned while reading documents that indicated Trump’s communications and those of other Trump associates were swept up inadvertently, but in a manner that identified them.
The committee’s leading Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff, said Nunes’ unusual decision to share information with the president and House Speaker Paul Ryan before consulting committee members during an ongoing investigation was “beyond irregular” and justified an independent commission to pursue the facts “completely out of the political realm.”
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