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Showing Original Post only (View all)Things just went from bad to worse for Devi(l) Nunes and the White House [View all]

Devin Nunes has some explaining to do.
The New York Times just reported that two White House officials helped provide Nunes with information that President Trump and his associates had been swept up in legal surveillance, just before Nunes briefed Trump himself and then disclosed some of the information to the media and to the House Intelligence Committee that he chairs.
The Times sources identified the officials as Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, and Michael Ellis, national security lawyer in the Office of White House Counsel:
The officials said that earlier this month, shortly after Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter about being wiretapped on the orders of President Barack Obama, Mr. Cohen-Watnick began reviewing highly classified reports detailing the intercepted communications of foreign officials.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/03/30/things-just-went-from-bad-to-worse-for-devin-nunes-and-the-white-house/?utm_term=.8420710e0426
The New York Times just reported that two White House officials helped provide Nunes with information that President Trump and his associates had been swept up in legal surveillance, just before Nunes briefed Trump himself and then disclosed some of the information to the media and to the House Intelligence Committee that he chairs.
The Times sources identified the officials as Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, and Michael Ellis, national security lawyer in the Office of White House Counsel:
The officials said that earlier this month, shortly after Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter about being wiretapped on the orders of President Barack Obama, Mr. Cohen-Watnick began reviewing highly classified reports detailing the intercepted communications of foreign officials.
...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/03/30/things-just-went-from-bad-to-worse-for-devin-nunes-and-the-white-house/?utm_term=.8420710e0426
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Things just went from bad to worse for Devi(l) Nunes and the White House [View all]
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2017
OP
He should be slapped with an ethics violations, and immediately removed from the investigation
still_one
Mar 2017
#1
Don't under-estimate them. They are cyber-lynching Obama to politicize the criminal inquiry.
L. Coyote
Mar 2017
#4
I agree that is their intent....but I think Mr. 38% has ZERO chance to get Obama, Mr. 68 or 70%
adigal
Mar 2017
#7
Check the Twitter feed to see what #TrumpsTrolls are pushing. Coordinated cyber-lynching of Obama.
L. Coyote
Mar 2017
#11
Michael Ellis was Special Counsel of the House Comm. just a few days back, then went to the WH.
L. Coyote
Mar 2017
#3
Excellent reminder of a brazen move by the amateur tRump gang. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2017
#19
Paul Ryan is complicit in the lies and obstruction if he fails to remove Nunes. nt
Cognitive_Resonance
Mar 2017
#15
Nunes rushing to tell tRump info his staff had already told him was coverup of coverup of the crime.
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2017
#17