An attorney says he's hopeful the Obama administration will be held accountable for spying on Donald Trump's presidential campaign last year.

For weeks and months Democrats and their media allies have mocked Donald Trump and his claims of being "wiretapped" by Obama, yet the evidence keeps piling up to suggest he was right.

Weeks before U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes announced he viewed evidence backing up Trump's claims, a former Department of Defense official appeared to admit in a television interview that she was personally involved in leaking sensitive information.

Evelyn Farkas, a Russia expert in the Obama administration, seemed to admit – and even brag – about leaking information in a March 2 appearance on MSNBC.

Jordan Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice watched the interview and says she admitted that then-candidate Trump was being watched.

"Her exact words were, If they found out what we knew about their connections to Russia, and our methods, they would change how they're conducting their business," the attorney recalls. "So she's acknowledging the surveillance."

News also broke over the weekend that Susan Rice, Obama's former national security advisor, requested the identities of U.S. citizens connected to Trump's campaign who were included in intelligence reports, Bloomberg News reported in an April 3 story.

That action is known as "unmasking," and Rep. Nunes has remarked that he was troubled to learn that such actions took place against U.S. citizens involved in the Trump campaign.

"Unmasking" is permitted under certain circumstances but the process is also guided by federal laws protecting the identities of Americans.

Sekulow says he's pleased that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is looking into the matter.

"Obviously he's not going to tell anybody weather grand juries are being empanelled, and who the grand juries are investigating and what they're looking at," the attorney observes. "But he did acknowledge that they were focusing in on leaks."