Ben ShapiroVerified account @benshapiro 52m52 minutes ago
1. Nunes said Trump monitored via intelligence collected on foreigners. Legally.
2. Leaks are illegal.
3. Trump said Obama wiretapped him.
https://www.justice.gov/archive/ll/paa-dispelling-myths.html3. MYTH: The Protect America Act allows the government to target Americans in the United States under the guise of surveilling a person located overseas – a practice known as "reverse targeting."
FACT: "Reverse targeting" was, and remains, prohibited by law.
FACT: The provisions of FISA that protect against this practice remain unchanged by the Protect America Act. The law excludes from the category of "electronic surveillance," and thus from the FISA warrant requirement, only surveillance directed at individuals reasonably believed to be in foreign countries.
FACT: "Reverse targeting" constitutes electronic surveillance and thus generally requires a court order under FISA. Nothing in the Protect America Act changes this.
FACT: "Reverse targeting" makes little sense as a matter of intelligence tradecraft. If the government believes a person in the United States is a terrorist, it is more useful to obtain a court order to collect all of the person's communications than to conduct surveillance on that person by listening only to a fragment of the person's calls to individuals overseas.