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."
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See the actual press conference today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HjfphHo5Rw
Not much backing down here.
The truth will come out, but not reported on NBC. who watches/believes the MSM anymore anyway?
minds changed, suspended, fired, missing, popped, whatever...
Another DaY @ Planet WTF!
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Remember To Laugh!
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Adds up to major problems for Obama and his minions.
<><> clearly, the intent was to abuse Obama's executive power.
<><> the Obama minions got FISA court to approve a warrant submitted without Trump’s name but “which Obama then misused to spy on Trump and many connected to Trump.”
<><> that might mean perjury for lying to the FISA court,.
<><> Most serious is the dissemination of collected intelligence, including names of Americans, that should have been kept tightly classified.
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It is also entirely possible that Obama and his legal team may have perjured themselves before the FISA court by willfully withholding material information in order to manipulate the FISA court’s willingness to permit the government surveillance. And falsified official govt documents in the process.
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"Aloha Obama, put down that tropical drink and activate your cell phone....s-o-m-e-b-o-d-y wants to talk to you."
These same turds at NBC would tell you to your face that Newt Gingrich wasn’t wiretapped decades ago because his lawyer’s mobile phone call was merely intercepted by some grandparent democrat activists with a radio receiver and taping device hooked up in their car as they enjoyed their hobby. Nope, no wires or break ins. Plz moves along.
Stalinists lie.Always
I suspect this is exactly what's happened.
NBC news. More fake news.
Sara Carter regarding Trump surveillance on Hannity last night. Nunes must have been threatened, ya think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxUKTi68Tn0
Oh, yeah. Just in the nick of time, NBC To Obama’s Rescue!!
What I am concluding is that the tentacles of the leftists in this country are very, very deep and pervasive. Eight years of Clinton, 8 years of Bush neglect, and then 8 years of Obama on steroids has created a very powerful destabilizing force in America.
It will be a long, hard slog. But we have Trump. And I am a foot soldier willing to battle on.
A guy called 911 four times to explain why he was in the process of killing 49 people, and the media & Left rejected it as inconclusive.
NBC = Fake News
“That’s a beautiful family you’ve got there, David. Be a shame if something were to happen to them.”
/deep state
Or the NSA.
Not just that, but his stated motivations were scrubbed from later official investigations and reports. Can’t insult Islame after all.
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” incidentally”
The new politi-speak KEYWORD.
does he have kids?
CIA to Nunes: “You do know we can easily plant kiddie porn on your home computer, don’t you? You do know what a kiddie porn arrest would do to your career, family life and your entire life, don’t you?”
Somebody got to him. Bigly. Physically.
The Washington Post's Bob Woodward warned on Wednesday that there are people from the Obama administration who could be facing criminal charges for unmasking the names of Trump transition team members from surveillance of foreign officials.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said earlier that he had briefed Trump on new information, unrelated to an investigation into Russian activities, that suggested that several members of Trump's transition team and perhaps Trump himself had their identities "unmasked" after their communications were intercepted by U.S. intelligence officials.
The revelation is notable because identities of Americans are generally supposed to remain "masked" if American communications are swept up during surveillance of foreign individuals. During an interview on Fox News, Woodward said that if that information about the unmasking is true, "it is a gross violation."
He said it isn't Trump's assertion, without proof, that his predecessor wiretapped Trump Tower that is of concern, but rather that intelligence officials named the Americans being discussed in intercepted communications.
"You can learn all kinds of things from diplomats gossiping, because that's what occurs. Under the rules, and they are pretty strict, it's called minimization. You don't name the American person who is being discussed," Woodward said.
He noted that there are about 20 people in the intelligence community who, for intelligence reasons, can order this "minimization" be removed.
"But the idea that there was intelligence value here is really thin," Woodward said. "It's, again, down the middle, it is not what Trump said, but this could be criminal on the part of people who decided, oh, let's name these people."
He drove the point home, adding that "under the rules, that name is supposed to be blanked out, and so you've got a real serious problem potentially of people in the Obama administration passing around this highly classified gossip."
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