[grania]

FWIW, when I listened to the interview, Clapper seemed uncomfortable and not all that assertive in his denials. My takeaway was that if they did wiretap, it started out as an unintentional consequence of wire tapping Trump Tower.

But that doesn't make any sense. Any order to tap someone in Trump Tower should have excluded the presidential campaign, you'd think.

[Boogieman]

“But that doesn’t make any sense. Any order to tap someone in Trump Tower should have excluded the presidential campaign, you’d think.”

The way it is supposed to work is anyone not named in the warrant is automatically excluded, no matter who it is. If you pick up someone else by accident or circumstance, you are suppose to stop listening, delete the recordings, and do whatever is necessary to stop what may have been recorded from disseminating. According to reports, the Obama administration did the exact opposite (if the wiretapping was unintentional to begin with, but I doubt it was).