Update: House Intel Chairman Nunes spoke to reporters when he left the briefing at The White House and had some more stunning things to say:
◦*NUNES: BRIEFED PRESIDENT ON CONCERNS OVER INCIDENTAL COLLECTION
◦*NUNES: `PRESIDENT NEEDS TO KNOW' THESE INTEL REPORTS EXIST
◦*NUNES: SOME OF WHAT I'VE SEEN SEEMS TO BE `INAPPROPRIATE'
◦*NUNES: TRUMP, OTHERS IN TRANSITION PUT INTO INTELLIGENCE REPORT
◦*NUNES: QUESTION IS IF TRUMP SHOULD BE IN THESE `NORMAL' REPORTS
And the punchline: there are "multiple FISA warrants outstanding against Trump" Nunes also told reporters:
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As we detailed earlier, it appears Trump may have been right, again.
Two days after FBI director Comey shot down Trump's allegation that Trump was being wiretapped by president Obama before the election, it appears that president Trump may have been on to something because moments ago, the House Intelligence Chairman, Devin Nunes, told reporters that the U.S. intelligence community incidentally collected information on members of President Trump's transition team, possibly including Trump himself, and the information was "widely disseminated" in intelligence reports.
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“multiple FISA warrants outstanding against Trump” WOW!
And the punchline: there are “multiple FISA warrants outstanding against Trump” Nunes also told reporters:
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I heard that comment but am not certain that these “multiple FISA warrants” were directed at Trump. But the fact that they exist is still big news.
How certain are you about that?
I think that this was part of what Trump mentioned to Hannity last week that more information was forth-coming.
I am thinking that Comey went up there to do the dog and pony show on Monday and playing semantics with words thinking that he was covered and using “National Security” to not comment on FISA warrants and the rest that he probably had happened.
And having said that, it opened the door up for Nunes to release this information after Comey was given the chance to let the public know the truth.