Flynn and Nunes Fallout Over Russia Probe Grows Ominous for Trump White House [View all]

[TomCADem]

This is pretty crazy. You have members of Congress, former National Security Advisor and the Attorney General all caught up in the scandals so far.

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The fallout over Russian election interference, which had already become a major distraction for a flailing Trump White House, has grown more ominous.

First, a story the White House had embraced as a shield — that House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes got secret intelligence information from a "whistleblower" that "somewhat" vindicated Donald Trump's discredited claim that his predecessor wiretapped him — unraveled.

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Rep. Nunes dropped a bomb last week when he declared to the news media that a secret source had provided him intelligence reports suggesting that Trump and his associates had been "monitored" by U.S. intelligence during the transition. The California Republican immediately went to the White House to brief the president, who told reporters he felt that Nunes had bolstered his wiretapping claim. House Speaker Paul Ryan said Nunes told him his source was "a whistleblower."

But the story immediately began to fray when Nunes acknowledged he couldn't be sure Trump was monitored. And on Thursday, it collapsed altogether after the New York Times and the Washington Post reported that Nunes received his information from White House officials, who found it on classified systems and shared it with the chairman outside the normal committee channels.