He specifically said he "had a finding," which is executive order speak for a Presidential decree that what they were doing is legal under the existing executive order. The thing is, the White House is required by law to report such findings to the respective Intelligence committees and that's something we can get checked. If he didn't inform the committees he either broke the law or he's lying now. That's why I've sent emails to my congress lady and my two senators asking them to check this specific issue.
Okay, IMHO he did both. I think he's lying now and he still broke the law. Maybe I'm wrong but my memory says we have specific laws on the books making this illegal. Courtesy of the Democrats years ago when they were upset over our authorizing this very kind of action.
I'll wait to see if there's any fallout over it because I can't do much research on it these days, but I'm sure someone will get the specifics.
This sounds every bit as serious as the GWB Admin conducting their "DOMESTIC Spying" on innocent citizens in order to get political dirt on its opponents!! /sarc