On Wednesday, Mr. Nunes announced that he had received information that Mr. Trump or members of his transition team may have been “incidentally” caught up in foreign surveillance by American agencies. He said at a news conference that he had briefed Speaker Paul D. Ryan and planned to inform Mr. Trump. By Thursday afternoon, members of the committee, including Mr. Schiff, said they had still not seen the information that Mr. Nunes claimed to have received. Mr. Schiff, who said members had expressed “profound concern” to the chairman, said Congress should create an outside commission — something Republican leaders have resisted. Mr. Nunes said his decision to go around Mr. Schiff was “a judgment call.”“At the end of the day, sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the wrong one,” he told reporters.

Source: New York Times March 23, 2017 23:38 UTC