slate - "Smooth Move, Nunes"

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/03/31/devin_nunes_white_house_dissemble_on_trump_russia_obama_surveillance.html

How Devin Nunes and the White House Dug Themselves Into a Huge Hole for Basically No Reason

By Ben Mathis-Lilley

On Thursday, the New York Times reported that two Trump administration officials "helped provide" House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes with documents that Nunes had described last Wednesday, citing only unidentified "sources," as evidence that Trump and/or his advisers may have been surveilled inappropriately by Obama administration intelligence officials. The Times report has put the past week's worth of events in Washington into a sharper context that does not reflect well on Nunes and the White House's credibility, but what’s still unclear is why any of the deceit was necessary at all.

Let's review.

On March 20, a "senior White House official" told the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza to "watch Nunes" at a House hearing because Nunes was going to raise the issue of "backdoor surveillance" having potentially been used against Trump and/or his advisers.

On March 21, a Trump administration official showed Nunes classified intelligence documents dating to the November-January presidential transition period—documents that had been flagged by another Trump administration official—in an office building on White House grounds.

On March 22, Nunes announced on Capitol Hill that Obama administration officials may have behaved in potentially inappropriate ways during the transition period, attributing his findings to documents he'd been shown by "sources" and not mentioning where the document reveal occurred.

I recently confirmed that on numerous occasions the intelligence community incidentally collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition. Details about U.S. persons associated with the incoming administration, details with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value, were widely disseminated in intelligence community reporting.

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[The Wielding Truth]

1. You think he has been blackmailed into this or do you think he was just too weak

to say no.