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Many are diving deeply into minutiae in order to discredit any notion that President Trump might have been onto something when he fired off a series of tweets claiming Obama had "tapped" Trump Tower.
The FBI did indeed "wiretap" the former head of Trump's campaign, Paul Manafort, both before and after Trump was elected.
If Trump officials - or Trump himself - communicated with Manafort during the wiretaps, they would have been recorded, too.
It means U.S. intelligence agencies secretly surveilled at least a half dozen Trump associates. And those are just the ones we know about.
Besides Manafort, former Trump advisers Carter Page and Michael Flynn and multiple Trump "transition officials" were "incidentally" captured during government surveillance of a foreign official.
We know this because former Obama adviser Susan Rice admitted "unmasking," or asking to know the identities of, the officials.
Spying on U.S. citizens is considered so sensitive, their names are supposed to be hidden or "masked," even inside the government, to protect their privacy.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates acknowledged they, too, reviewed communications of political figures secretly collected under Obama.
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