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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,794 posts)
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 03:04 PM Mar 2017

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
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He should be slapped with an ethics violations, and immediately removed from the investigation still_one Mar 2017 #1
yes Angry Dragon Mar 2017 #13
Good. He's not a smart man Warpy Mar 2017 #2
Don't under-estimate them. They are cyber-lynching Obama to politicize the criminal inquiry. L. Coyote Mar 2017 #4
My comment was about Nunes Warpy Mar 2017 #5
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
I agree, Adigal BadgerMom Mar 2017 #8
Make that Mr. 35% Thank you. NewRedDawn Mar 2017 #16
I saw that, too. Need to hurry and get them all out. If not, it will be war. notdarkyet Mar 2017 #9
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
I am an old person and have never seen such blatant OldHippieChick Mar 2017 #14
A hippie and a lawyer---I'm in love. panader0 Mar 2017 #23
Aw schucks OldHippieChick Mar 2017 #24
Excellent reminder of a brazen move by the amateur tRump gang. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2017 #19
Rand Paul is currently defending all this on CNN. OliverQ Mar 2017 #6
Not sure if things have gotten worse for them, if nothing is done. Honeycombe8 Mar 2017 #10
LOCK THEM UP! ffr Mar 2017 #12
Start building the gallows. SCVDem Mar 2017 #18
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
After reading many of the above comments, leanforward Mar 2017 #20
In other words they were leakers.... Historic NY Mar 2017 #21
So Flynn had hired this Cohen-Watnick character for the WH and he used to work for the NSA/NSC. Ligyron Mar 2017 #22
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