Posted on 03/23/2017 7:19:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Wednesday, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), held a press conference where he claimed he possessed proof that “U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition” were “incidentally” surveilled by the Obama administration. Nunes clarified that the evidence he’d reviewed was not related to, “Russia, the investigation of Russian activities, or the Trump team.”
Rep. Nunes’ announcement came as a shock to ranking committee Democrats, who learned the news via the press conference. The White House was also unaware of Nunes’ findings until the press conference.
An Intelligence Community (IC) insider approached Rep. Nunes with the bombshell evidence after FBI Director Comey’s testimony before Congress Monday. Or at least that’s what Nunes claims.
As Nunes explained, members of Trump’s transition team were surveilled “incidentally”, but what concerned him most was that transition team members had been “unmasked”. Rather than being referred to as “American A” (or something of the like) in surveillance reports, their identities were listed. Unmasking requires specific request and approval.
This “incidental” intelligence contained personal information about members of Trump’s transition team was then disseminated to other IC members, “but this had no intelligence significance at all…and that would include people in the White House getting it,” said Rep. Peter King (R-NY), House Intel Committee member.
Joining Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly Wednesday night Rep. King reiterated Rep. Nunes’ previous statements. It’s worth noting that at the time of his interview with O’Reilly, King had not personally seen the information in Nunes’ possession, but had been briefed “in detail” by Nunes.
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King claimed the reports they’ve sifted through are just the beginning and that there’s much more. Seemingly contradicting one of Nunes’ claims, King indicated (again, second-hand knowledge here) that the intelligence reports read like surveillance reports, detailing where the subjects went and with whom they spoke.
According to King, this is not an isolated incident. There are “many” reports with same type of intel collection.
When questioned, Trump said he felt “somewhat” vindicated and was glad Nunes found what he did.
Hours later, CNN published a story with the following headline:
Even though, “officials cautioned that the information was not conclusive and that the investigation is ongoing.”
It’s almost like the FBI swatted back. Almost.
AMEN!
I see a trade off coming. The more they get caught spying, the more the Russian influence grows. LOL; “Here’s the deal, you shut up and we’ll shut up. Lets both walk away untouched, its how things are one in DC, doncha know?”
This is the BEST. He can be an international criminal just long enough for the Secret Service to arrest him and stuff him on a JetStream.
I would just as well see him intentionally ditch them and go on the lamb. TOTAL WIN.
Obama thought that hillary would be elected.He committed felonies thinking that he would never be caught.HE IS CAUGHT!! He has fled the country . We need to get him back for trial ( very easy) . Tomorrow is a historic day.THEY WERE ILLEGALLY FOLLOWING AND WIRETAPPING BEFORE THE ELECTION.Nunes is the greatest patriot since Paul Revere. The leftists are in full rout!!Wipe them out!!
You wont beat Trump playing like that.
Who is Andy Kaufman’s aborted baby brother?
I would like to see him in the defendant’s seat in a courtroom.
so much for staying in DC til sasha finishes school.
Adam Bennett Schiff is the U.S. Representative for California’s 28th congressional district.
infomation is coming out in waves,...overloading their ability to respond.
Maybe the strategy is to say “OK, well you got us, Obama and all of us did spy on you. So what. We own the FBI, the DOJ, the judges and everything else. Too bad, there’s nothing you can do about it.”
breaking on Hannity tonight- “Sources” tell fox news smoking gun to come out htis week proving that obama surveilled Trump- EVEN BEFORE he ‘changed the rules’ Making this a much much bigger legal issue
Well, I fear it might eventually take a Pinochet level of law enforcement to actually remove these Communists from government - but this should at least slow them down.
Does anybody remember the family that moved to a remote area of Siberia?
I think the man’s brother had been killed in Russia and he took his family and survival equipment to the middle of nowhere. He was discovered - possibly vis satellite and some explorers - many years later.
That family had a good idea. Get away from politicians, media and their corruption - get away from them all.
He’s going to have a Schiff fit when he hears King is speaking out too.
It seems more and more like justice Roberts’ weird decision might have been coerced.
That’s interesting. No wonder 0hole went to Tahiti.
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