Nunes says he was on WH grounds day before revealing Trump surveillance info
Source: CNN
By Jake Tapper, Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent
Updated 10:12 AM ET, Mon March 27, 2017
Washington (CNN)It has been something of a mystery, the whereabouts of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes on the day before his announcement that he saw information suggesting that communications of then-President-elect Donald Trump and his advisers may have been swept up in surveillance of other foreign nationals.
One source told CNN that Nunes, a California Republican, was seen on the White House grounds the day before his announcement. In a phone interview, Nunes confirmed to CNN that he was on the White House grounds that day -- but he said he was not in the White House itself. (Other buildings, including the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, are on the same grounds.) No one in the White House was aware that he was there, Nunes said.
The California Republican said he was there for additional meetings "to confirm what I already knew" but said he wouldn't comment further so as to not "compromise sources and methods." He went to the building because he needed a secure area to view the information, he told CNN.
Two congressional sources said Nunes was with a staff member Tuesday night when he got a message, got out of the car and got into an Uber. Staff did not hear again from him that night.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/27/politics/devin-nunes-white-house-donald-trump/index.html
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Botany
(70,508 posts)..... about what "info" they wanted him (Nunes) to bring back to the White House the
next day.
NewRedDawn
(790 posts)This fucker Pence is in deep too.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)He was in the gardener's potting shed?
sdfernando
(4,935 posts)Why not just have the staffer take him?.....
Because he didn't want anyone to to know where he was going. I can see no other reason
Paladin
(28,262 posts)Contact Schiff and any Democratic committee members from your state and demand that all of them walk away from the table, and devote their energies to setting up an independent investigation.
Honestly, now: Just how much of this shit are we expected to eat, before taking appropriate action?
SJMULE
(193 posts)to meet a wistleblower/ leaker....
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)womanofthehills
(8,710 posts)"Chairman Nunes met with his source at the White House grounds in order to have proximity to a secure location where he could view the information provided by the source," said his spokesman, Jack Langer. "The Chairman is extremely concerned by the possible improper unmasking of names of U.S. citizens, and he began looking into this issue even before President Trump tweeted his assertion that (Trump Tower) had been wiretapped."
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nunes-met-source-trump-monitoring-claim-white-house-n738906?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma
BuddyCa
(99 posts)i hear the WH grounds are nice this time of year.