That posting listed the accounts of the NY Times, WaPo, and Guardian. These outlets no longer use the term “wiretapping,” and instead call it “surveillance.”
The distinction is important.
The law allows surveillance by the NSA without a warrant to conduct surveillance of a hostile foreign power. If any one is caught talking to such a power including US citizens, like some Trump operatives (Paul Manafort, Roger Stone etc) their conversations get swept up in the process and as is the case if they were at Trump Tower communication are transmitted through the Tower server.
Also, NSA was conducting surveillance over Alpha Bank, this is Russia’s largest bank. Again, e-mail and conversations made to or from Alpha Bank get caught up as well.
In short, Trump misspoke unless he can provide proof of an application for a warrant to tap into his phone and that the FISA warrant was granted. The WH is not saying they have proof of any of this.
If any Americans’ conversations get swept up, the conversations are supposed to be deleted.
Supposed to be...