Originally Posted by Rochard

There seems to have been no surveillance on Trump at all. However, if you call someone who works for the Russian government, or the Russian intelligence agencies, yes, your call will most likely be listened in on.

Allow me to explain this better. It's reasonably safe to assume my phone is not tapped. However, if I call up the top Russian spy in the United States that call will most likely be listened in on - because his phone is tapped.

We've only been doing this for the, gee, I don't know, the past forty of fifty years?

I am not sure what you rambling on about when you are talking about the unmasking of names and I don't really care. Are you saying reports were sent out to 16 different agencies and they contained the names involved? Um, wouldn't that be standard? I mean.... If I call the top Russian spy in the United States and discuss illegal things, wouldn't the CIA write up a report and send it to Homeland Security and the FBI and a dozen other agencies... right? If this happened, why would my name be required to be "masked" or hidden? Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of the reports?

You are taking what is routine surveillance done by counter intelligence specialists and trying to make it into something wrong. But, mkay. Let's have an investigation. In fact, let's have eight of them. Let's find out who talked who, and more importantly, let's find out exactly what they discussed. I mean... We had multiple investigations into Hillary's emails and read tens of thousands of emails and found.... No wrong doing. (Well, no wrong doing except for the child sex traffic ring at the pizza place.)

This is routine surveillance of Russian agents. We've been doing this for forty years. If Trump's people got caught up in this, it's no one's fault except for their own.