If there was a wiretap order targeting Mr. Trump or his associates, what would that mean? It claimed that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court had approved a “warrant” in October in connection with activity between the server and Russian banks. On Sunday, James Clapper, who was the director of national intelligence until Jan. 20, denied to NBC News that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court had approved monitoring at Trump Tower. The change did not affect collection on American soil under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which several agencies were already able to share in raw form. President George W. Bush set it in motion in 2008, and the bureaucratic deliberations were well developed long before it became clear that Mr. Trump would become president.

Source: New York Times March 06, 2017 00:50 UTC