U.S. intelligence agencies had intercepted Trump associates’ communications ― and perhaps those of Trump himself ― in the final three months of the Obama administration, Nunes said he told Trump. Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a close Trump ally, said the intercepted communications didn’t mention Russia and were therefore unrelated to his investigation. But the subject matter ― the intelligence community’s investigation of Trump and his associates’ connections to foreign powers ― overlapped. “What I saw has nothing to do with Russia and nothing to do with the Russian investigation,” he said. And most of the information he revealed doesn’t provide Trump and his associates with the vindication they claim it does.

Source: Huffington Post March 22, 2017 20:59 UTC