Posted on 03/23/2017 4:16:08 PM PDT by mandaladon
Republican congressional investigators expect a potential “smoking gun” establishing that the Obama administration spied on the Trump transition team, and possibly the president-elect himself, will be produced to the House Intelligence Committee this week, a source told Fox News.
Classified intelligence showing incidental collection of Trump team communications, purportedly seen by committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and described by him in vague terms at a bombshell Wednesday afternoon news conference, came from multiple sources, Capitol Hill sources told Fox News. The intelligence corroborated information about surveillance of the Trump team that was known to Nunes, sources said, even before President Trump accused his predecessor of having wiretappedhim in a series of now-infamous tweets posted on March 4.
The intelligence is said to leave no doubt the Obama administration, in its closing days, was using the cover of legitimate surveillance on foreign targets to spy on President-elect Trump, according to sources.
The key to that conclusion is the unmasking of selected U.S. persons whose names appeared in the intelligence, the sources said, adding that the paper trail leaves no other plausible purpose for the unmasking other than to damage the incoming Trump administration.
The FBI hasn’t been responsive to the House Intelligence Committee’s request for documents, but the National Security Agency is expected to produce documents to the committee by Friday. The NSA document production is expected to produce more intelligence than Nunes has so far seen or described – including what one source described as a potential “smoking gun” establishing the spying.
Some time will be needed to properly assess the materials, with the likely result being that congressional investigators and attorneys won’t have a solid handle on the contents of the documents – and their implications – until next week.
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Yes it is.
Transcribed phone calls between Trump and the president of Mexico and prime Minister of Australia were leaked to the press. You know Trump was wiretapped.
Wonder how the Kenyan bastard will look in an orange jumpsuit!
Democrats, “How dare Nunes destroy our anti-Trump narrative!!!”
Lock them up! Lock them up!
Keep in mind this was supposedly “incidental”. I wonder if they will have several documents full of “incidental” only information, which would would mean that they regulatory took the incidental and collected that for use.
That is called illegal spying.
If one listens carefully they can hear the sound of McCain’s arteries bursting.
They are saying “documentary evidence”, and that’s the stuff prison sentences are made of.
“Schiff blasted Nunes for not coming first to the Intelligence Committee with the information.”
Thank you Mr. Nunes. God Bless and protect you!
Hacks WILL go to jail over this.
Kind of fitting that James Rosen wrote this piece. He, of all people, should appreciate what the Obama administration was capable of and the extent.
No wonder Comey denies any wrongdoing.. HE WAS INVOLVED IN ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE. And 0dunga and Brennan, and _______, etc. too..
Schiff is pissed he couldn’t BURY IT and keeping this info. from seeing the light of day. GOOD MOVE, NUNES.
They will probably be so redacted that you will not be able to see a thing.
Comey has got to go before anything productive comes of this.
GPD, these hacks will not be as lucky as Hillary in avoiding jail.
There WILL be hacks going to jail over this
Thanks!
Would love to see Maxine’s face when this comes out.
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