Democrats Shouldn’t Dismiss Nunes’s Spying Claims So Quickly

If true, this isn’t the wiretapping of Trump Tower, as Trump claimed in his infamous tweet a few weeks ago, but it is spying in any commonly understood sense of the word.

.. While the answers might not vindicate Trump, they are legitimate questions. If it turns out intel wasn’t properly minimized, this is the kind of abuse that civil libertarians have long warned undermines Americans’ privacy, a Fourth Amendment right.

.. Intelligence agencies cannot share details about American citizens with no foreign-intelligence value. If Nunes is right, how

.. It could very well be that Nunes is attempting to give the president cover. He’s a partisan, after all. That doesn’t make the incident potentially less serious.