Intelligence panel chair reviewed sensitive file on White House grounds

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters

Mon Mar 27, 2017 1:02pm EDT

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON

A mystery rooted in President Donald Trump's claim that he was wiretapped by then President Barack Obama during the 2016 election campaign deepened on Monday with the disclosure that a top congressional Republican reviewed classified information about the charge on the White House grounds.

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U.S. Representative Devin Nunes, chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, visited the White House the night before announcing on Wednesday that he had information that indicated some Trump associates may have been subjected to some level of intelligence activity before Trump took office on Jan. 20.

Nunes spokesman Jack Langer said in a statement that 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."

It was the latest twist in a saga that began on March 4 when Trump said on Twitter without providing evidence that he "just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory."


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-idUSKBN16Y1H6

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Nunes Met Source On WH Grounds Before Making Trump Surveillance Claims

By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published MARCH 27, 2017, 10:48 AM EDT


The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee met a secret source on the White House grounds the day before he went public with hazy, charged allegations that members of Donald Trump's transition team had been picked up by incidental collection of foreign nationals.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Monday [link:http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/22/politics/devin-nunes-trump-communications/confirmed to CNN] that he clocked time there to view classified information in a secure area in order to confirm what I already knew. Nunes said he was not at the White House itself, and it's unclear exactly what building he visited.

He later explicitly told [link:https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-27/devin-nunes-explains-his-white-house-visitBloombergs Eli Lake] that his source was an intelligence official, not a White House staffer, and that their meeting location was chosen out of convenience.

We don't have networked access to these kinds of reports in Congress," Nunes said. By his account, the intelligence reports he viewed are only distributed on a system within the executive branch, so the White House grounds were the most convenient secure location that had a computer connected to that system.

more
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/nunes-white-house-groundsp-trump-incidental-collection

[dalton99a]

1. Michael Ellis gave him the file.

[GliderGuider]

3. It's like a big flashing red neon sign just lit up over Ellis' head.

I hope he feels suitably naked at this moment!

[ColemanMaskell]

8. well this blog agrees with you on that

Don't know anything about its credibility (or absence thereof), but it tells a story along those lines

https://patribotics.blog/2017/03/27/did-nunes-leak-fisa-warrant-info-via-white-house-lawyer-michael-ellis/

Here's a partial excerpt:

. . .

Mr. Ellis previous job was the General Counsel for the House Intelligence Committee, working for Mr. Nunes directly. Sources indicate that Nunes recommended Ellis for the White House national security post.

Yesterday it was reported that Nunes’ friend Mr. Ellis, described as his “close aide”, only started working for the White House this month, when leaks started.

If indeed Mr. Ellis did pass on information about the FISA evidence on money laundering, possibly involving Epshteyn, to Nunes, asking him to leak it to the press or allowing him to do so, it would be highly illegal conduct.

. . .

[Lucinda]

2. KNR

[Botany]

4. And was this the sensitive information that Nunes showed Ryan and then took to ...

.... Trump the next day?

IOW Was the Trump White House using Nunes to set up any kind of
blocking and or cover story about Trump's ties to the Russians?

Oh, look that bad man Obama found out about Trump's work with the
Russians using illegal methods. And that will be the meme that they
push. Pay no attention to the spying and the rigging of our elections
by a hostile foreign power but the real crime was how that information
was collected.

[red dog 1]

6. + 1

[red dog 1]

5. K&R

[DeminPennswoods]

7. Nunes must be cast in the role of comic relief

ala Tony Ulasewicz was during Watergate.

[msongs]

9. BREAKING - chef reviews recipes in white house kitchens. nt

[Achilleaze]

10. the KGOpee's Caviar Comrades betraying America

as usual.