{"id":69433,"date":"2017-03-22T17:28:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T21:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69433"},"modified":"2017-03-22T17:29:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T21:29:56","slug":"69433","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69433","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Rep. Nunes Confirms Obama Admin. Did Monitor Team Trump Communications (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->lidblog.com<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/lidblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1lw3pm-300x167.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/3jrjps1t0ztwsakr03fp3bhy.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1lw3pm-300x167.jpg 300w, http:\/\/3jrjps1t0ztwsakr03fp3bhy.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1lw3pm.jpg 600w\" alt=\"1lw3pm\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told a news conference Wednesday that Trump transition team communications were monitored by the Obama Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The communications appear to be picked up through \u201cincidental collection\u201d and do not appear to be related to the ongoing FBI investigation into Trump associates\u2019 contacts with Russia. He says he believes the intelligence collections were done legally.<\/p>\n<p>Nunes says the communications of Trump associates were also picked up, but he did not name those associates. He says the monitoring mostly occurred in November, December and January.<\/p>\n<p>Nunes says he learned of the collection through \u201csources\u201d but did not specify those sources.<\/p>\n<p>Watch video below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DevinNunes\">@DevinNunes<\/a>: Information was &#8220;incidentally collected&#8221; about people involved in Trump transition; surveillance not related to Russia probe. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/dBGZ8dSGjJ\">pic.twitter.com\/dBGZ8dSGjJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCPolitics\/status\/844596009757917184\">March 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/beforeitsnews.com\/opinion-conservative\/2017\/03\/breaking-rep-nunes-confirms-obama-admin-did-monitor-team-trump-communications-video-3263236.html\">http:\/\/beforeitsnews.com\/opinion-conservative\/2017\/03\/breaking-rep-nunes-confirms-obama-admin-did-monitor-team-trump-communications-video-3263236.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}