House intel chairman met source on White House grounds
WASHINGTON (AP) — House intelligence chairman Devin Nunes met on the White House grounds with the source of the claim that communications involving President Donald Trump's associates were caught up in "incidental" surveillance, the congressman's spokesman said Monday.
The meeting occurred before Nunes disclosed at a news conference that U.S. spy agencies may have inadvertently captured Trump and his associates in routine targeting of foreigners' communications.
The Senate intelligence committee is also conducting an investigation into Russia's interference in the election and possible ties with the Trump campaign.
The House intelligence committee has a facility where classified information can be viewed and discussed, but Nunes' spokesman said the circumstances required that Nunes go to the White House grounds.
"Because of classification rules, the source could not simply put the documents in a backpack and walk them over to the House Intelligence Committee space," Langer said.