By Shane Harris
Washington Post
July 5, 2018
In a tweet Tuesday, President Trump falsely connected the recent deletion of information from an intelligence-agency database to the special counsel’s investigation of whether his presidential campaign conspired with the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 election.
“Wow! The NSA has deleted 685 million phone calls and text messages. Privacy violations?” Trump wrote, a reference to the National Security Agency’s decision, announced last week, to purge records legally obtained as part of its counterterrorism and foreign intelligence missions. “They blame technical irregularities. Such a disgrace. The Witch Hunt continues!”