Not “exactly true” — but enough to get the topic out in the open. He likes to say something outrageous enough to force the media to react to it, and then its out there.
This letter from Larry Klayman is pretty definitive, with witnesses, to the surveillance done to us by the government and not mentioned except uder pressure.
Those elected to represent us are complicit in the systematic violation of every Americans 4th amendment rights among others.
http://www.freedomwatchusa.org/pdf/170321-Final%20Whistleblower%20Letter.pdf
It is a little long with the Newsmax blog post as well but leaves no doubt in any reasonable mind.
Curiously the day after getting this information to Mr Nunes in a manner that left him no doubt about the consequences of not following through, he had a press conference about the 'known' surveillance on Trump Towers that no one would acknowledge before.