” It would be ...highly shady if the feds wiretapped the Russians only because they were trying to gather info on Manafort et al., a practice known as “reverse targeting.” “
Because we should trust the Obama administration not to have done that?
Also, the import of the new Wikileaks data dump is that the CIA has constructed a parallel electronic collection structure of its own unconnected to the NSA. Not sure this CIA capability would have gone through FISA. Perhaps, it should have. But did it / would it have?
If the intercepts were reported to the WH, why does Trump not have them? Is he really using his full powers as head of the executive branch?
I have to believe Trump has seen everything by now. He wants congress to include this aspect in their investigation so it can be “discovered”. When the legislative branch make a criminal referral, Trump’s DOJ will be more than happy to drain some swamp.