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House intel chairman: Trump personal communications may have been collected - CNNPolitics.com
Not quite a smoking gun, in fact, it's rather vague and doesn't speak to the wiretapping claim Trump has been backing down from the past week. But it's possible, that maybe, a little of Trump's communications had been captured. Maybe.
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," Nunes said. "This appears to be all legally collected foreign intelligence under" the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Also at that hearing, Comey said he had seen no evidence so far of the specific allegation of wiretapping Trump Tower.
Nunes did not know whether the "incidental collection" happened at Trump Tower, and could not say for certain whether Trump's communications were directly collected.
Not quite a smoking gun, in fact, it's rather vague and doesn't speak to the wiretapping claim Trump has been backing down from the past week. But it's possible, that maybe, a little of Trump's communications had been captured. Maybe.