2 White House Officials Helped Give Nunes Intelligence Reports

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — A pair of White House officials played a role in providing Representative Devin Nunes of California, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that showed President Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies.

The revelation that White House officials assisted in the disclosure of the intelligence reports — which Mr. Nunes then discussed with President Trump — is likely to fuel criticism that the intelligence chairman has been too eager to do the bidding of the Trump administration while his committee is supposed to be conducting an independent investigation of Russia’s meddling in the last presidential election.

Mr. Nunes has also been faulted by his congressional colleagues for sharing the information with President Trump before consulting with other members of the intelligence committee.

The congressman has refused to identify his sources, saying he needed to protect them so others would feel safe coming to the committee with sensitive information. He first disclosed the existence of the intelligence reports on March 22, and in his public comments he has described his sources as whistle-blowers trying to expose wrongdoing at great risk to themselves.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/devin-nunes-intelligence-reports.html

[Still In Wisconsin]

1. Halfwit Nunes is going to find himself in the pokey before long.

He is obviously in waaaaay over his head.

[geek tragedy]

2. What a damn farce. White House briefs Nunes, who then pretends to brief White House. Fraud. nt

[KewlKat]

7. trump is directing a reality show and we can't change

The channel to save the nation. This was choreographed.

[still_one]

22. Nunes at a minimum should be cited for ethics violations, and immediately

removed from the investigation

[Afromania]

3. so in essence the white house is investigating itself with nunes as a proxy?

[calimary]

4. Is he still getting paid by trump?

He was on the transition team. I'd guess there was some compensation for that job? Maybe in-kind compensation like free airfare and hotels when he accompanied Mike Flynn to Turkey, or some such?

And is he still getting - um - er - "favors"?

Who's yer daddy, Devin? How much do you OWE him and how much does he OWN you?

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Trump Spiked the

Congressional Hearings,that was their go to and it worked.

[GliderGuider]

12. That's my take on it. And all it cost him was Nunes. nt

[Wellstone ruled]

15. Right out of the Nixon cover-up

play book. Compromise the Investigators.

[unitedwethrive]

6. Imagine my surprise...

[turbinetree]

8. And lets not forget this important little fact of aiding and abetting in this "stuff"

Paul Ryan,

[berni_mccoy]

9. Trump would have had to authorize this.

While Nunes probably has Top Secret clearance, those reports probably required special clearance on a Need-to-know basis. The White House (authorized by Trump) would have had to expand the need-to-know to themselves first and then to Nunes.

The implications are obvious of course.

[cstanleytech]

11. Thats assuming the reports even existed and were not manufactured by order of Trump and then

he brokered a deal with Nunn to plant the story as a smokescreen to extract Trumps as from the hole he dug himself into with the lie of his being wiretapped by order of President Obama.

[joeybee12]

17. +1

I tend to doubt the reports were real, something Bannon made up to fool Nunes, or Nunes knew th ey were fake and decided to go along

[cstanleytech]

10. So in other words Trump administration officials provided this supposed information

to try and create a smokescreen for their boss over his tweet about wiretapping that never occurred and they got Nunn to agree to help.
Makes me wonder what if anything did it cost them to get Nunns help.
Perhaps a "campaign contribution" (aka bribe)? Maybe help securing a real low interest loan or a cushy higher paying job within the government or maybe even a nice cushy job once he is out of office?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Nunes flat out lied when he said no WH staff even knew he was at the WH secure room looking at docs.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Nunes didn't "share" with tRump, he COORDINATED the COVERUP

Since the WH officials provided Nunes the Intell reports, they surely had already made them known to President tRump-Bannon. Nunes went to the WH the second time to [font size = "+1"]coordinate the coverup[/font] since it was not necessary to "share" what was already known by tRump-Bannon.

[randome]

16. Nunes said this had nothing to do with Russia.

So why was anyone providing information to a Russia investigator that was not about Russia?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

[Nwgirl503]

23. Exactly!

Nunes himself said it had nothing to do with Russia. Why the middle of the night antics, the urgency for Nunes to brief the WH (who provided him with the info), the secrecy of what the info even was?

This is all such bullshit.

I was listening to the Senate hearing as I was driving and my phone beeped with the breaking news of this, so I switched over. My car has a driver alert system, and it started going off, that's how badly I was shaking with rage. All of these fuckers need to go down.

[Angry Dragon]

18. Nunes is a Traitor ................

[Juliusseizure]

19. Trump will throw anyone under the bus

I have no sympathy for Nunes, who should now be added as yet another Trump stooge subject to investigation and impeachment for obstruction. No wonder he looked nervous.

But it demonstrates Trump doesn't give a fuck about people, even his own family also implicated in collusion.

Why would anyone possibly work for him?

[BadGimp]

20. Q: Does this now mean we have a clear case of Obstruction by the Whitehouse?

[Dustlawyer]

21. He was on the Trump transition team and knows the officials he should be investigating and is

a potential witness himself. He gets alleged evidence from the WH and runs to Trump with it and not the committee that he is chairman of. He doesn't think there is a problem with him staying on? This is complete BS!

The Democrats on the committee need to be demanding a Special prosecutor, PERIOD! There is no way to have a real investigation with these partisan hacks!

[Bradical79]

24. This was all a terrible plan

Especially with it counting on a guy like Nunes. He's an idiot.

[ananda]

25. The WH was trying to make the public think ..

.. that Trump's "wiretapp" tweet was in some vague
manner not a falsehood.

They are all crazy sociopaths and kind of stoopid about
it as well ... but with the Reeps behind them, they get
away with it.