House Intel Chief Tipps Off Trump...Huff Post..

[Stuart G]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nunes-trump-russia-investigation_us_58d2e0b5e4b02d33b748452d?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

Rep. Devin Nunes’ bombshell disclosures about surveillance on Trump associates raise more questions than they answer.

By Jessica Schulberg , Nick Baumann , Sam Stein. 03/22/2017 04:56 pm ET | Updated 4 minutes ago
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WASHINGTON ― Investigators don’t normally brief the people they’re investigating. But on Wednesday afternoon, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the Republican who’s leading a congressional investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s team colluded with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election, went to the White House to talk to the president.

U.S. intelligence agencies had intercepted Trump associates’ communications ― and perhaps those of Trump himself ― in the final three months of the Obama administration, Nunes said he told Trump.

Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a close Trump ally, said the intercepted communications didn’t mention Russia and were therefore unrelated to his investigation. But the subject matter ― the intelligence community’s investigation of Trump and his associates’ connections to foreign powers ― overlapped. And Nunes’ objective appeared political: Deflect attention from Trump and his associates’ ties to Russia, and back up Trump’s claim that he is a victim of “deep state” loyal to former President Barack Obama.

Nunes’ gambit failed. In attempting to put out the Trump-Russia fire, he made much of it worse: In two press conferences on Wednesday, he confirmed that Trump’s surrogates ― and maybe the president himself ― were subjects of legal surveillance, implied that they may have had suspicious contact with agents from a country other than Russia, and potentially disclosed classified information.

And by choosing to brief the president, who’s so closely tied to the investigation, before sharing his new information with his Democratic counterpart, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Nunes also raised doubts about his own ability to lead his committee’s probe.

Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said that Nunes “will need to decide if he is the chairman of an independent investigation or if he’s a surrogate for the White House.”

Shortly after talking to Trump about his findings, Nunes deflected accusations that he had compromised his impartiality or revealed information and methods that should otherwise have been classified. “What I saw has nothing to do with Russia and nothing to do with the Russian investigation,” he said. “It has everything to do with possible surveillance activities ... and I have the duty to tell [Trump] that.”
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So..Nunes says, "....I have the duty to tell [Trump] that."...no you don't. Your duty is to the people of the USA, not Drumpf. You, Nunes, have disqualified yourself from this committee. You did not share this info with the Democratic counterpart, Adam Schiff..(D-Calf) before you talked to your pal Drumpf.. You loose asshole.. You have compromised yourself forever...

[global1]

1. Was He Looking To Score Brownie Points With 45 Or.....

is he involved himself in the cover-up?

This is just unacceptable and it just yells for an independent investigation.

[2naSalit]

2. He certainly has....nt