*****BREAKING***** Two White House Officials Gave Nunes Info He Gave To Trump

[DemocratSinceBirth]

WASHINGTON — A pair of White House officials played a role in providing Representative Devin Nunes of California, a Republican and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that showed that President Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies.

The revelation that White House officials assisted in the disclosure of the intelligence reports — which Mr. Nunes then discussed with President Trump — is likely to fuel criticism that the intelligence chairman has been too eager to do the bidding of the Trump administration while his committee is supposed to be conducting an independent investigation of Russia’s meddling in the last presidential election.

Mr. Nunes has also been faulted by his congressional colleagues for sharing the information with President Trump before consulting with other members of the intelligence committee.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/devin-nunes-intelligence-reports.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&_r=0

I can't even go to freaking Costco and come back home without Trump and his affiliates doing something shady !!!

[vlyons]

1. do they know which 2 staffers?

Betting one was KelliAnne

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. This is crazy. Could they do more to inculpate themselves?

[Raster]

10. Speaking of Kellyanne Conjob*...

...she seems to have fallen through the slime and back down into the ooze... I wonder where --AND WHAT-- she's been hiding?

[OliverQ]

16. They listed their names

Ezra Cohen, Flynn's former aide who Trump refused to allow to leave at McMaster's demand. And Michael Ellis.

[kacekwl]

28. So they gave it to Nenuz so he could

get the info out right ? Trump knew what they gave him ? Just trying to follow along.

[OliverQ]

31. They probably gave it to Nunez to launder the info

So no one would supposedly know where it came from. It makes no sense since the NSC guys could have just handed it directly to Trump down the hall.

Trump probably knew about it ahead of time, which indicates he was involved with orchestrating this charade to try and "vindicate" his stupid "Obama wiretapped me" tweet.

[pangaia]

3. NYT has such a nice way of putting things. :))

[Marthe48]

4. I imagine the staffers cooked the stuff they fed nunes

and he ate it up with a spoon.

[KittyWampus]

12. Thing is, what he was feed was pabulum. Nothing remotely worth noting. Certainly not to hold two

breathless pressers.

[Marthe48]

14. Nunes doesn't strike me as being able to discern

wheat from chaff. Anything new gets a presser, no matter how little it matters. tweet, tweet

[mzteaze]

5. LOL

LOL surprise surprise....it's two people they wanted to get rid of...

the new guy, Michael Ellis - connected to Nunes who just started on 3/7

and the guy connected to FLYNN - Ezra Cohen-Watnick.

You would have to be crazy to want to work for this administration. "You, too, could be the next scapegoat [for de Thrumpfurer]" is not what they tell you at the interview.

[Bleacher Creature]

6. I no longer believe he should recuse himself.

Because I now believe that there's enough evidence to call on him to RESIGN from Congress altogether.

[procon]

7. This bunch is more incompetent than Nixon's Watergate crooks.

They're like a pratfall comedy act, or an SNL skit, they're the classic bumbling Keystone Kops, and the blooper outtakes from an episode of the World's Dumbest Criminals. Its like they deliberately dropped a map and a To-Do-List at the scene of the crime, then left a trail of breadcrumbs and put up flashing neon arrows pointing to photos of everyone involved.

[radical noodle]

20. The treasonous version

of the Keystone cops.

[Raster]

8. I just got back from Costco...

...AND I FEEL THE SAME FREAKING WAY!!!

[grantcart]

9. I wonder who is leaking the identity.

[KittyWampus]

11. And the information was totally run of the mill, ordinary and not worth noting. So Nunes

is a lying weasel who held two pressers after seeing something that said "water is wet".

[spanone]

15. all cover for trump...he got to say 'i feel somewhat vindicated' so his loyals will stay loyal.

[spanone]

13. investigate the investigation...these people are fucking shameless criminals

isn't corrupting a government investigation illegal?

i know it would be if nunes was a democrat.

[triron]

17. bet Rachel will be on this tonite

and connecting the dots.

[triron]

18. This is getting fucking ridiculous

but yet still some of the dem senators aren't willing to block Gorsuch. Seems spineless to me.

[radical noodle]

22. I haven't heard any Dem

say they would vote yes on Gorsuch. I think even Manchin has said he's voting no.

[calimary]

24. Heitkamp just did. Statement announced she'd vote to approve.

[radical noodle]

25. That's disappointing at the very least

I'm surprised. She must have a lot of red voters calling her.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Nunes flat out lied when he said no WH staff even knew he was at the WH secure room looking at docs.

[Blue_Tires]

21. Now we're cookin'

[NewJeffCT]

23. and, the two White House officials

got it from Trump, who got it from Breitbart who got it from RT who got it from the FSB...

[Stuart G]

26. K and R...nt

[Tanuki]

27. I would be interested in what information Michael Ellis passed on to the White House

that he obtained in his immediately prior role as General Counsel to Nunes' committee. I hope he is disbarred or even imprisoned over this.

[Vinca]

29. I really don't get the point in this. So Nunes goes to the White House grounds where 2 White House

employees have him listen to some secret something or other that apparently indicates Trump was picked up in incidental surveillance. Nunes then scoots back to consult with Paul Ryan, then heads back to the White House to tell Trump. Trump must have already known this because if he didn't those employees would be gone by now. How does running this bit of information through a dairy farmer make it more legitimate? And "incidental" doesn't mean innocent. Someone might be asking how much loot to send to Trump's Cayman Island account this week. It makes no sense to me.

[tanyev]

30. It was pretty obvious this was cooked up by the White House when a Trump supporting PAC

tweeted out a fundraising letter moments after Nunes' press conference. What I want to know is, who was the reporter who fed Donnie the question about whether he felt vindicated? I still think that was the #1 purpose of the whole fiasco.