re: Devin Nunes Presser | 10:30 EDT

I believe he indicated to Schiff, or Schiff indicated himself, Wednesday on MTP Daily, that the masked names that Nunes figured out, were in addition to Michael Flynn.

I am of the belief that Nunes figured out that he was one of the masked names (he was part of trump transition team) and that is why he acted so oddly with his info. This is not to say he (Nunes) did anything nefarious by being incidentally collected. My understanding of "incidental" collection is that it is when two parties, under legal surveillance, discuss a third party. Their name comes up and if it has no context to the investigation then it is masked.

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He would not confirm that any Trump associates were unmasked when asked directly.

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Try to think for a minute. These communications happened between November and January. The only Trump associate under investigation that was on his transition team was Michael Flynn. We ALREADY KNOW Flynn's name was unmasked illegally.

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The question was about the documents he saw that he talked about on Wednesday. In those documents he will not say that any Trump associate's name was unmasked.

As for Flynn: No one with any authority has said that Flynn's name was unmasked "illegally". We all know that he was likely under investigation from the Russian investigation that began in July.