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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He will or he will be escorted there!!These are felonies!!
Fake News
BINGO
Instead of taking the evidence to Trump and/or the public, Nunes is now planning to take it (behind closed doors) to the 2 main SUSPECTS in the case... Rogers and Comey. Neither the evidence or the leakers will survive that.
Instead, he should quietly take it to Trump, let Trump declassify it and make it public.
This shift in his plan means the end of Trump... there will be no surviving this embarrassment. This was a close call, and Congress will not take any more chances after this Nunes fail... and impeachment will proceed quickly.
What is going on here is that the Obama administration spied on Trump for Hillary and they are back engineering a structure in order to justify it because they thought Hillary was going to win and no justification would ever be necessary. That is the bottom line. That is what everyone refuses to acknowledges.
Headline News: MSM Does Not Back Down From Fake News.
My take on a few points of what Nunes said:
“No wiretapping of Trump Tower”
“Appears to be legal surveillance”, but he will know more after he reads the requested documents.
Some of the information in the documents concerns him & makes him uncomfortable
Unmasking is the real problem for him.
So, he said there was surveillance.
Nunes did not back down. This is NBC trying to pretend there’s no news here. Nunes simply asserted there was no “wiretap,” but he repeated how troubled he was that private citizens and Trump team members were surveilled and unmasked - even confirming that potential felonies were committed. I guess NBC’s crack reporters missed that part
Let’s find out who authorized the unmasking, for what purposes and for how long. Those are questions none of the Dems or their media bootlickers want to entertain
Watch Friday’s video of Nunes.
There is no back down.
By the way, please name the individual with the ultimate power to determine matters to be classified or released.
Seems like that is the PRESIDENT. Please correct my error. :)
I believe the president can declassify it. So, it makes no sense that Nunes has changed his plan.... instead of taking it to Trump he's now instead planning to take it to the 2 main suspects in this case... Comey/Rogers. What in the hell is the point in doing that?
“Trump is not “handling” this”
Exactly, he is sitting back working with Ryan and the GOPe on a Insurgence Company bill, while his enemies conspire to destroy him. Brilliant.
NBC? LMAO!!!
Don’t believe a word they say. EVER!!!
Republicans are such incompetents. And so naive! They still have no clue what an enemy they face.
Ain't going to happen.
You seem to have all the criticism but none of the solutions.
Put them on record again.
Let Rep. Stefanik continue her questioning of these two.
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