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Nunes Backs Down From Assertion Trump Was Monitored
NBC News ^ | MAR 24 2017, 11:41 AM ET | by KEN DILANIAN and ALI VITALI

Posted on 03/24/2017 9:01:32 AM PDT by SSS Two

The chairman of the House intelligence committee has backed down from his dramatic assertion that Donald Trump and his aides were "monitored," by U.S. spies — a claim the Republicans have cited this week in fundraising emails.

Rep. Devin Nunes told reporters Friday he can't be sure whether conversations among Trump or his aides were captured in the surveillance that has become a source of controversy since Nunes made it public in two news conferences this week.

"He said he'll have to get all the documents he requested from the (intelligence community) about this before he knows for sure," his spokesman, Jack Langer, said earlier.

Langer asserted that Nunes did not explicitly say Trump was spied on when he briefed reporters Wednesday that he was "very concerned," that "the intelligence community incidentally collected information about American citizens involved in the Trump transition."

As for Trump's assertion that Obama wiretapped him, Nunes repeated Friday what he has said previously, telling reporters, "That didn't happen."

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


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To: gubamyster
THANK YOU!


41 posted on 03/24/2017 9:21:56 AM PDT by onyx (Donate Monthly ~ Join 300 Club!)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Absolutely.

“Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey”

Ol’ Maxine,
She spilled da beans.


42 posted on 03/24/2017 9:22:06 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: SSS Two

It would take about 30 minutes to pull up every living relative of NUNES on both sides of the family tree by name and age and to lay a significant burden on NUNES.

“You know Devin it would be horrible to have a tragedy a family member because of your “bias” to come to Trump’s aid.”

Democrats have proven time and again that they have no conscience. Silencing an enemy is as easy as a phone call.

There is quite an incentive to be dumb or to play dumb in Washington.


43 posted on 03/24/2017 9:22:22 AM PDT by overdog2
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To: SSS Two

No Documents today, maybe next week, maybe next month, maybe Never. Same old bait and switch crap that we went through with Hillary. This crap never ends...


44 posted on 03/24/2017 9:22:24 AM PDT by heights
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To: SSS Two

Nunes stated clearly that Trump Towers was not wiretapped.

He did NOT say cell phones were not listened to.

Wiretapping is old tech. NSA has much more accessible methods now.

I suspect the old “words matter” theme will matter again...


45 posted on 03/24/2017 9:22:54 AM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: ExTexasRedhead
Yep, I think someone got to him...

I noticed he was nervous, not knowing what he had just learned about what he went to President Trump with, or knowing something in his past was going to be leaked, but something has diffidently happened...

46 posted on 03/24/2017 9:24:13 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: SSS Two

I thought we were supposed to know something today?

Did I miss it?


47 posted on 03/24/2017 9:25:47 AM PDT by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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To: smileyface
does he have kids?

Don't know... doesn't matter. The CIA can plant kiddie porn on your computer, then have the cops raid your home and seize the computer as evidence. You are then toast. The CIA can plant classified docs on your computer and do the same thing... there are countless ways the spies can get to anyone.

48 posted on 03/24/2017 9:26:21 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: SSS Two
The corruption at the top is total. When does the revolution start?
49 posted on 03/24/2017 9:26:45 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: HarleyLady27

If he was threatened, he should come out with it and ask for protection.


50 posted on 03/24/2017 9:27:27 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: SSS Two

It’s NBC’S “look squirrel” moment again. Fake news at it finest. The Progressives are doing their best to wear us down, change our minds, and show Trump’s dysfunctional government is useless.


51 posted on 03/24/2017 9:27:36 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

He also threatened the star witness by bringing his brother in from Italy for no good reason but to intimidate the witness into not giving his true testimony.


52 posted on 03/24/2017 9:30:35 AM PDT by murron
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To: SSS Two
"Nunes Backs Down From Assertion Trump Was Monitored NBC News" lied #FakeNews journofake liars Ken Dilanian and Ali Vitali.

Sorry, guys - we don't believe the shite you're shoveling. 😀

53 posted on 03/24/2017 9:30:51 AM PDT by kiryandil
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To: roses of sharon
I thought we were supposed to know something today?

Someone seems to have convinced him to change his mind on that. Instead, he's going to have a closed-door meeting with the main suspects to share with them what he has and who his sources are.

By Sunday he'll be saying "We now have definitive proof that Trump and Putin stole the election from Hillary. We can't share this super-secret information with the public, so you just have to take my word for it."

54 posted on 03/24/2017 9:31:47 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: SSS Two

These people think their words can create reality.

The pressure on Nunes must have been astronomical.


55 posted on 03/24/2017 9:33:13 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: gubamyster

Thank you for posting that link. Interesting that he says he knew about the “unmasking” of people’s names BEFORE he saw the documents. I’ll bet half of DC knew there was massive, extra-legal, surveillance going on, and kept it quiet.


56 posted on 03/24/2017 9:34:40 AM PDT by whinecountry (Semper Ubi Sub Ubi)
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To: SSS Two

We’re being played. By ALL of them.

Something big is coming. I don’t know what it is, but I have no doubt it is coming very soon and will be big. I mean russian revolution big, or meteor big, or WWIII big.

The whole thing is a mess and there has to be a pretty big reason for it.

I’m done monitoring it. it is 12:37 EST on March 24, 2017. I’m hereby done.


57 posted on 03/24/2017 9:36:32 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: heights

Only 48 more business hours to wait.


58 posted on 03/24/2017 9:36:39 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: SSS Two

At 8:20 of the news comfrence Nunes says there is no good reason that he has learned to unmask ( spy) Trumps team. NBCs headline is fake news..

https://youtu.be/-HjfphHo5Rw


59 posted on 03/24/2017 9:37:05 AM PDT by seastay
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I saw it live.
We caught a break today. NSA delayed the huge news release to get out of the News over run on replacing socialized medical insurance with Rinocare socialized medical insurance. MSM was using that for cover of the obama crimes. . NSA will drop the smoking gun this next Tuesday. That way it will be a much lighter news day with far more light shed on the felonies of the obama Whit House. But it will be important to cal Obama to testify under oath in congress as to what he knew and when he knew it.


60 posted on 03/24/2017 9:40:07 AM PDT by WENDLE (DEFEAT RINOCARE. NO RINOCARE!!--FREE MARKET WITH SAFETY NET!!)
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