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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: FlipWilson

“Of course, NBC. Because we have to get back to RUSSIA!!”

Exactly. They wanted an investigation but did not want it to go this way.


61 posted on 03/24/2017 9:42:07 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: JohnnyP
Only 48 more business hours to wait.

The goods were supposed to come from people at the NSA. Unfortunately, Obama still controls the NSA... Rodgers is still the head of it... and he sat there Monday with Comey lying to all of us about this whole mess.

Why are the leakers at the NSA postponing the release? Either they have the goods or they don't. Is there a massive hunt within the NSA right now to find/eliminate the leakers? Is there a massive data purge going on at the NSA now to cover the trail?

This delay in handing over the goods makes me very nervous... smells like a bad omen to me. I hope I'm wrong.

62 posted on 03/24/2017 9:43:10 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: gubamyster

Bogus headline...More lies from NBC.

There is no back down by Nunes.

Repeatedly, Rep. Nunes corrects mis-stated questions by the Control-LEFT media.

<>Several times Nunes says something along the lines of “You’ve asked that question several times. I want to be clear there is no Russia....in the new material”

Go watch the video. It is only 14 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HjfphHo5Rw


63 posted on 03/24/2017 9:45:55 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: Meet the New Boss
some Obama henchman dressed as a maintenance guy physically planting a microphone in Trump’s office.


64 posted on 03/24/2017 9:46:04 AM PDT by bankwalker (groupthink is dangerous ...)
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To: SSS Two

Anyone in their right mind knows that wire tapping the ones running for office is a common thing and denying it is just as common, proving it is hard to do because in most cases the guilty ones are the ones who has all of the facility`s to do the investigating.


65 posted on 03/24/2017 9:53:39 AM PDT by ravenwolf (If the Bible does not say it in plain words, please don`t preach it to me.)
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To: Cementjungle

You are correct in that it is bad, and it is going to get worse. They are waging[if that is the correct term] a coup against President Trump. And unless he calls in the military to put it down, they will succeed. He cannot depend on or use the FBI, CIA, or NSA because obama and Hillary Clinton own them lock, stock , and barrel head. He is going to have to get them. Or they will get him. And after they get him, they will come after those who voted for and supported him like a bat out of hell.


66 posted on 03/24/2017 9:55:11 AM PDT by sport
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To: WENDLE; left that other site; flat; unkus; Lumper20; ZULU; SkyPilot; vette6387; Liz; ...

Waiting until Tuesday gives the perps time to wipe their tracks and threaten more people, ya think??

Zero telling the truth?? Under oath, no way! His entire life is a lie, in my opinion! What’s yours?


67 posted on 03/24/2017 9:56:33 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Cementjungle

If anything happens to Nunez, the IC would practically be convicting themselves.


68 posted on 03/24/2017 10:07:31 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: ptsal
There is no back down by Nunes.

His story has shifted from "I have the goods and will share them Friday" to "I hope Obama's people will give me the goods next week and then I'll share them with some of the main suspects... Comey/Roders/Dems".

69 posted on 03/24/2017 10:09:01 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: SSS Two

Maybe Nunez discovered his source was unreliable.


70 posted on 03/24/2017 10:14:20 AM PDT by piasa
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To: virgil
If anything happens to Nunez, the IC would practically be convicting themselves.

Nothing will happen to him if he comes back next week and says "Oops, sorry... I was mistaken. Never mind. Now, let's get back to the real work of investigating Trump's ties to Putin".

71 posted on 03/24/2017 10:19:31 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

“Nunes has shifted from “I have the goods and will share them Friday” to “I hope Obama’s people will give me the goods next week and then I’ll share them with some of the main suspects... Comey/Roders/Dems”.

And the cherry on the top is Manafort Volunteering to be grilled by Democrats. Could Trump’s handling of this be more Stupid.?


72 posted on 03/24/2017 10:22:43 AM PDT by heights
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To: FlipWilson

So true....

Every MSM outlet: We interrupt this Breaking News to tell you that RUSSIA is back in breaking news!!!!

Geez.


73 posted on 03/24/2017 10:24:22 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: FlipWilson

“Of course, NBC. Because we have to get back to RUSSIA!!”

Thanks to Paul Manafort’s “Volunteering ( which he wouldn’t do with first asking Trump) RUSSIA! is now tonight’s headline.


74 posted on 03/24/2017 10:29:19 AM PDT by heights
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To: heights
And the cherry on the top is Manafort Volunteering to be grilled by Democrats. Could Trump’s handling of this be more Stupid.?

Trump gave it a darned good shot, but sadly he'll now be removed from office... probably Pence too, so Ryan can finally get what he wants... the presidency. He'll team up with the Bush/Clinton/Obama clan and the end of the USA as we know it will proceed as scheduled.

75 posted on 03/24/2017 10:29:23 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: gubamyster

I am unable to place full concentration on the press conference, but what I got from it:

1. Trump was not wiretapped.

2. Trump was not surveilled.

3. The surveillance of Trump was legal.

4. Nunes was disturbed that some names were unmasked in some legal surveillance of Trump and his transition team that did not occur.

5. The entirely legal surveillance that did not occur had nothing to do with Russia.

6. Tuesday, Comey and Rodgers will testify in closed session regarding whatever the hell they were up to. But it was entirely legal.


76 posted on 03/24/2017 10:48:10 AM PDT by odawg
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To: WENDLE
Wishful thinking. You're dreamin' or smokin' somethin' stinky if you think Obama will ever come to Congress to testify about anything he knows or didn't know.

It will never happen.

77 posted on 03/24/2017 10:53:15 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: odawg

Exactly.. Nunes backed down Bigly, and Manafort’s “Volunteering is stupidity on a scale unheard of before in History ( and Trump had to approve it).


78 posted on 03/24/2017 10:55:00 AM PDT by heights
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To: Cementjungle

Watch the video.

There is no back-down.


79 posted on 03/24/2017 10:58:20 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: heights
Trump doesn't control Manafort.

Trump is not "handling" this. The Congress Critters are.

Please don't call the guy we wished for and just elected in November, stupid, okay? He's got enough enemies after him, without his supporters calling him names and disparaging him.

80 posted on 03/24/2017 11:00:49 AM PDT by HotHunt
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