Osler's Razor

A long time ago, as a federal prosecutor, I actually got a wiretap authorized. It was a long and exhaustive process. It also turned out to be very useful in making a case that really made a difference.

As the zaniness abounds in the White House, the latest oddity is President Trump's Saturday morning tweet accusing President Obama of tapping his phone in Trump Tower.

There doesn't seem to be any actual basis for the claim. And here is the deal: While there is little chance that Obama authorized a wiretap on Trump's phone (in large part because Presidents don't do that-- judges authorize a tap after a prosecutor submits a motion seeking one), there is a decent chance that something else happened. That something else is this: the FISA court may have authorized, properly, the monitoring of communications to and from Russian officials. Then, once that monitoring was in place, it may have captured conversations between Trump or his associates and those Russians. 

If that is true, I'm not sure the President wants the information out there...