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Confused by the Trump Surveillance Drama? Heres a Timeline
WASHINGTON — It was a mystery that gripped Washington for the better part of two weeks, filled with clandestine meetings at the White House, classified intelligence documents and confidential sources. And a central question was unanswered: Who showed the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee reports indicating that President Trump or members of his transition team may have been “incidentally” caught up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies?
The New York Times reported Thursday that a pair of White House officials had helped provide the intelligence to the committee’s chairman, Representative Devin Nunes, Republican of California. The revelation has fueled criticism that Mr. Nunes, who had been a member of Mr. Trump’s transition team, has been too eager to do the bidding of the Trump administration while his committee is supposed to be conducting an independent investigation of Russia’s meddling in the presidential election.
That investigation has now descended into a partisan sideshow, and the White House on Friday returned to the unproven claim that started it all: Mr. Trump’s accusation that he was “wiretapped” by President Barack Obama.
Keeping up with the twists and turns in the unfolding story has been no easy feat. Here is a timeline that lays out how this bizarre Washington drama has unfolded.
The New York Times reported Thursday that a pair of White House officials had helped provide the intelligence to the committee’s chairman, Representative Devin Nunes, Republican of California. The revelation has fueled criticism that Mr. Nunes, who had been a member of Mr. Trump’s transition team, has been too eager to do the bidding of the Trump administration while his committee is supposed to be conducting an independent investigation of Russia’s meddling in the presidential election.
That investigation has now descended into a partisan sideshow, and the White House on Friday returned to the unproven claim that started it all: Mr. Trump’s accusation that he was “wiretapped” by President Barack Obama.
Keeping up with the twists and turns in the unfolding story has been no easy feat. Here is a timeline that lays out how this bizarre Washington drama has unfolded.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/us/politics/trump-wiretapping-claim-timeline.html?hpw&rref=politics&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0
