The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee claims that the FBI acted illegally by eavesdropping on former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s telephone calls. Rep. Devin Nunes has called foul on the leaks of classified information obtained via conversations between Flynn and a Russian ambassador . “I expect for the FBI to tell me what is going on, and they better have a good answer. The big problem I see here is that you have an American citizen who had his phone calls recorded.” Dailycaller.com reports: “Any intelligence agency cannot listen to Americans’ phone calls,” Nunes told reporters Tuesday night. “If there’s inadvertent collection that you know is overseas there’s a whole process in place for that.” He explained, “It’s pretty clear that’s not the case, so then they could have been listening to someone else and inadvertently picked up an American. If that happens, there’s a whole process in place to where they have to immediately get rid of the information unless it’s like high level national security issue and then someone would have to unmask the name — someone at the highest levels.” “So in this case it would be General Flynn and then how did that happen. Then [...]
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