It said McCarthy notes that wiretaps did indeed take place. It was not him saying the wiretaps continued, but someone else. And they did occur
What if zero represented to the NSA that the warrant was approved by FISA in June and they started tapping then? Then, as HRC was using the tapped data, someone told WJC - on a tarmac, say - that whatever tap data they were using wasn’t ‘clean’.
But he didn't say that. At least not in the NR article.