Posted on 03/22/2017 10:55:23 AM PDT by xzins
Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill Wednesday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes revealed a number of American citizens who worked on the Trump transition team were monitored, surveilled and unmasked by the intelligence community during the previous Obama administration. Although the monitoring was legal, it was certainly inappropriate. Information collected on these individuals was then widely disseminated, despite being irrelevant to ongoing investigations into Russia.
House Intel Chair: Intel community incidentally collected info about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition pic.twitter.com/KWRA76MWam Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 22, 2017
Nunes revelation comes three weeks after President Trump claimed President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. There hasn't been any evidence of wiretapping, but the White House argues Trump was referring to overall surveillance of his campaign, not specifically wiretapping. Nunes will brief President Trump about his findings this afternoon.
The kicker is that this looks to have been brought to Nunes by a whistleblower inside the Department’s...Nunes is not releasing the name of who brought this to him
So this was not presented in the testimony yesterday department heads that contended there was no surveillance. we’re looking at obfuscate or flat-out perjury
I think that when he says he was wiretapped that he meant his entire operation. The same with “wiretap” when he meant any kind of surveillance.
You raise a good question. Is it possible for the agencies’ capabilities to do off the record surveillance that is stored in secret locations for partisan use?
Some clown just now asked Spicer Why didnt you share with the media that you knew the Trump transition team was surveiled?
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it’s like they’re living in a parallel universe.
Folks- Trey Gowdy was grilling comey yesterday, and he kept honing in on the term ‘unmasked’- And kept tryign to get comey to admit that unmasking was a crime- which he eventually did- I thought then “Trey seems very insistent on this unmasking issue- and also elise stephanic zeroe’d in or the fact that comey did not inform the new senior officials that there was an investigation going on”- And trey kept insisting that there was ‘no carvout for news stations that report leaked info’ to which comey finally, reluctantly admitted-
Well today I heard spicer bring up the unmasking issue and bingo- it dawned on me why trey was so insistent-
Spicer put the msm on notice that indictments are coming- both for the leakers, and for those who may have printed the leaks-
What spicer said today was big- He threw down the gauntlet-
At a minimum Comey should be fired
Maybe that was part of the plan. Let Comey testify and then the next day say Oh gee look at this.
Good insight. I remember Gowdy focusing like a laser on “unmasking”. Hope yyou are right.
Now some clown (British accent) asked Spicer... “Does it concern the president that some of his people were so dodgy that they had to be surveiled?”
tsunami
He’s dirty and mumbles.
Trump is loading up the evidence, and at the right moment he’ll pull the trigger. His weapon, BTW, is one of those Gatling Cannons off of an A-10 Warthog. (Smile).
Is Obama still in French Polynesia, after his visit with his classmate judge who stopped the refugee Executive Order?
Seth Rich - political murder.
I still think Flynn was in there as an operative to be a target so they could flush this out. He was Loyal to Trump and his exit after the mission was to withhold info from Pence as he had to keep his cover.
“See, they were only monitored, not wire tapped. Definition of is.”
You are ssssooooo right, as an involved, loving parent I “monitor” what my teenagers do on their cell phones...But I have never “wire tapped” them.
I personally believe this is what this "investigation" was about. Trump was looking into legal ways to fire Comey. He can't do that while in the middle of in an "investigation" against himself. That might actually be grounds for impeachment.
so when do the perp walks start.. the grand juries convene.. but first, another round of golf.
Charges brought, indict, imprison. Needle.
That’s it. Wrapped up, nice and cozy.
EVERYONE, starting with 0bama, ought to bow to and apologise to Trump and his team
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