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What Devin Nunes Knows
The Wall Street Journal ^ | KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL | March 30, 2017

Posted on 03/30/2017 10:59:53 PM PDT by Helicondelta

Team Obama was spying broadly on the incoming administration.

California Rep. Adam Schiff may not offer much by way of substance, but give him marks for political flimflam. The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee was so successful at ginning up fake outrage over his Republican counterpart that he successfully buried this week’s only real (and bombshell) news.

Mr. Schiff and fellow Democrats spent this week accusing Chairman Devin Nunes of carrying water for President Trump, undermining the committee’s Russia investigation, and hiding information. The press dutifully regurgitated the outrage, as well as Mr. Schiff’s calls for Mr. Nunes to recuse himself from the investigation into possible Russian electoral meddling.

All this engineered drama served to deep-six the important information Americans urgently deserve to know. Mr. Nunes has said he has seen proof that the Obama White House surveilled the incoming administration—on subjects that had nothing to do with Russia—and that it further unmasked (identified by name) transition officials. This is goes far beyond a mere scandal. It’s a potential crime.

Mr. Nunes earlier this week got his own source to show him a treasure trove of documents at a secure facility. Here are the relevant details:

First, there were dozens of documents with information about Trump officials. Second, the information these documents contained was not related to Russia. Third, while many reports did “mask” identities (referring, for instance, to “U.S. Person 1 or 2”) they were written in ways that made clear which Trump officials were being discussed. Fourth, in at least one instance, a Trump official other than Mr. Flynn was outright unmasked. Finally, these documents were circulated at the highest levels of government.

To sum up, Team Obama was spying broadly on the incoming administration.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; adamschiff; devinnunes; documents; donaldtrump; nunes; nunespresser; obama; russia; schiff; spying; strassel; transitionofficials; trump; trumpofficials; trumpwiretaps
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To: FES0844
So many hearings and investigations, yet no one is ever held responsible, fired or jailed.

This is because (1) Congress is not a law enforcement body. It is a law making body, and (2) the purpose of their hearings is supposedly "oversight," but in actuality it is political gamesmanship. Discovering truth, making it public, and holding wrongdoers to account are actually the last objectives of congressional hearings.

61 posted on 03/31/2017 4:38:22 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (Striving for perfect only to make an enemy of the good is a fool's game that ensures we all lose.)
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To: Helicondelta
"California Rep. Adam Schiff may not offer much by way of substance, but give him marks for political flimflam. The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee was so successful at ginning up fake outrage over his Republican counterpart that he successfully buried this week’s only real (and bombshell) news."

I Schiff him marks for absolutely NOTHING. I give Strassel a C- for starting her story about Schiff rather than real news. The real headline is Obama "wiretapped" Trump. Too bad no one anywhere in the media has the cojones to print it.

62 posted on 03/31/2017 5:04:32 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: a fool in paradise

I assume Obama still has not returned to a a nation, any nation that has an extradition treaty with the United States? Is he still on that gay paradise island in the South Pacific?


63 posted on 03/31/2017 5:06:58 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Flick Lives

Same liberal kook I spoke about earlier in this thread actually takes this immoral and illegal position: he HOPES Obama had Trump under surveillance, because if Trump was a Russian agent, he SHOULD be watched.

Lunacy reigns.


64 posted on 03/31/2017 5:11:05 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Helicondelta

“....as Mr. Schiff’s calls for Mr. Nunes to recuse himself from the investigation ...”
........
Holy Schiff, did you hear what Mr. Schiff said?!
response::No Schiff,...... he will not!


65 posted on 03/31/2017 5:12:34 AM PDT by BilLies (It is not the color, but the culture that degrades....)
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To: luvbach1
To sum up, Team Obama was spying broadly on the incoming administration.

Friday dump....but grist for the mill....

'expect Sunday here at FR to be a long thread...bring popcorn.

66 posted on 03/31/2017 5:41:05 AM PDT by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth)
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To: a fool in paradise

“...Obama changed rules at the end of his administration to advance this...”

Exactly. And Obama almost certainly changed the rules at the last minute also to provide cover for the illegal sharing that had already happened as well.


67 posted on 03/31/2017 5:42:44 AM PDT by stonehouse01
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To: Kalamata

Hyperventilate much?


68 posted on 03/31/2017 5:49:09 AM PDT by citizen (To hold with the #MSM description used by @POTUS, I am using #OppoMedia to refer to our biased media)
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To: Helicondelta
Poor, poor Hillary.... She had a direct link to all of Trump's plans, conversations, maybe even his most inner thoughts if he shared them with his cohorts...

She also received all the questions (and probable the answers) to the debates before hand in a timely manner..

She had all the "MEDIA" pounding the drums 24/7 on her behalf...

She had ALL the money that China and the Arab's could provide....

AND SHE STILL LOST..!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA..!! No wonder the left's heads are spinning around.....

69 posted on 03/31/2017 5:53:26 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: unread
I will add that the idea of the obummer having inside info and NOT sharing it with the Hilldabeast would be ludicrous....
70 posted on 03/31/2017 5:59:10 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: citizen

Bless your heart.


71 posted on 03/31/2017 6:27:33 AM PDT by Kalamata
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To: Helicondelta

This is why the Dims are pushing that Nunez remove himself from the House investigation - he knows what Obama was up to.


72 posted on 03/31/2017 6:39:16 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Flick Lives

And don’t forget Obama has to be the one that put the clips on the wire and listened. If not trump lied.


73 posted on 03/31/2017 6:41:57 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: BilLies
Bipartisan investigation is an oxymoron. Both Nunes and Schiff are partisans. Schiff voted for Hillary and Nunes, presumably, for Trump. They both have dogs in this fight.

The GOP (the Stupid Party) buys the narrative that they must be evenhanded while the Dems (the Evil Party) makes no pretense what side they are on. Just listen to Schiff at his press conferences and read his statements. They are highly partisan unfounded attacks against Trump and his administration. No evidence has been produced that show collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians. Yet, these accusations have been with us for over 8 months.

We do have evidence, however, that the Trump campaign and transition team were under surveillance by the intel community and that American names were disclosed illegally. The MSM has been reporting for months about wiretapping and intercepted communications re Trump and his team using unnamed official sources. Yet they have the chutzpah to demand that Trump provide evidence for his accusations. Trump is actually agreeing with their reporting. Checkmate.

74 posted on 03/31/2017 6:42:50 AM PDT by kabar
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To: SoFloFreeper

Actually he’s correct. So the next question is why wasn’t Obama and the FBI getting wiretaps legally against trump if they thought he was in collusion with russians.

Either the fbi wasn’t doing their job or they are lying now saying there was an investigation started in July.


75 posted on 03/31/2017 6:46:50 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Helicondelta

Schiff is a Political Hack and if I were Nunes, I wouldn’t give him the time of day.


76 posted on 03/31/2017 6:52:54 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (frequently.)
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To: unread
Poor, poor Hillary....

The overflow of useless information that they are still trying to extract something from, must have been overwhelming. No wonder she had no clear message of what she was going to unleash on America. And I thought her failure was mostly due to her excessive drinking...

77 posted on 03/31/2017 7:04:51 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: proust

“Today is gonna be crazy.

It’s been crazy here on FR lately, with some number of FReepers believing that we’re sailing off the edge of Earth to waiting sea serpents.


78 posted on 03/31/2017 7:10:15 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Cats are like potato chips - you can't have just one.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

It is frightening how corrupt our media is...They mislead when they report, and they mislead when they don’t :(

I heard the MSM still has not reported on the Maryland school rape case...


79 posted on 03/31/2017 9:07:58 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: Helicondelta
California Rep. Adam Schiff may not offer much by way of substance, but give him marks for political flimflam

He wouldn't have a stage for his flim flam if the media didn't provide him cover and credibility - just more fake news from the media.

80 posted on 03/31/2017 10:11:52 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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