Wednesday, the House Intelligence
Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA)
said the U.S. intelligence community
“incidentally collected” information
on President Donald Trump transition team.
Nunes said, “So first I recently confirmed
that on numerous occasions, the
intelligence community incidentally
collected information about U.S. citizens
involved in the Trump transition. Details
about U.S. persons associated with the
incoming administration, details with
little or no apparent foreign intelligence
value were widely disseminated in
intelligence community reporting.
Third, I have confirmed that additional
names of Trump transition team
members were unmasked. And fourth
and finally I want to be clear, none of this surveillance
was related to Russia or the
investigation of Russian activities or
of the Trump team.”