Congress Expands Unmasking Probe to Examine Whether OTHER Presidential Candidates Were Surveilled

Congress is expanding their investigation into the unmasking probe to see whether other presidential candidates were targeted besides just Trump and his team. 

Fox Reports:

The House and Senate intelligence committees are expanding their investigation into the so-called “unmasking” controversy, Fox News has learned, to examine whether other candidates or lawmakers beyond President Trump’s associates were affected.

Until now, the investigation focused on how the identities and communications of Trump transition members were collected by U.S. intelligence agencies and then revealed to, and disseminated among, high-ranking members of the Obama administration.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., now plans to audit files from the National Security Agency and White House to determine whether identities and conversations of presidential candidates — or members of Congress — also were swept up during NSA surveillance of foreign leaders. He also plans to review whether Obama’s National Security Council and White House counsel collected and distributed the intelligence for reasons unrelated to foreign intelligence.

“We will be performing an accounting of all unmasking for political purposes focused on the previous White House administration,” a member of the committee told Fox News. “This is now a full-blown investigation.”

It only makes sense that other presidential candidates were spied on as well. Obama and his cohorts started their surveillance of Trump before he became the GOP nominee. If it comes out that other presidential candidates were unmasked, it will only strengthen the argument that this was done purely for purposes to spy on political opponents and NOT for national security.

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