“Although the monitoring was legal, it was certainly inappropriate.”
Under the 4th amendment, NO, it was not legal. It was domestic spying which is not legal. We cannot easily stop them from their Stasi activities.
But we should never grant them the cover of saying their police state monitoring that exceeds east Germany in scope is “legal”.
Essentially, Nunes is saying “we spy on everyone, but in this case the intercepted data was improperly put into intelligence reports”