Intel chair Nunes backtracks: now unsure if Trump & associates were surveilled
 

What a Republican slimeball you just can't make this stuff up. Do you think he'll make a public apology tomorrow for misinforming / lying to America?
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Intel chair unsure if Trump associates were directly surveilled


The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, R-Calif., does not know "for sure" whether President Donald Trump or members of his transition team were even on the phone calls or other communications now being cited as partial vindication for the president?s wiretapping claims against the Obama administration, according to a spokesperson.

"He said he'll have to get all the documents he requested from the [intelligence community] about this before he knows for sure," a spokesperson for Nunes said Thursday. Nunes was a member of the Trump transition team executive committee.

At a press conference yesterday, Nunes announced he obtained "dozens of reports" showing the U.S. intelligence community -- through its "normal foreign surveillance" -- "incidentally collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition."

But Nunes never said Trump or any of the president's associates personally participated in the communications that were intercepted.

Nevertheless, Nunes called it a "significant" development, and President Trump later said it "somewhat" vindicated his controversial Tweets two weeks ago alleging that President Obama wiretapped him and his campaign.

Based on the limited amount of information provided by Nunes so far, it's possible that foreign officials were overheard talking about Trump transition team members, one intelligence official speculated, as opposed to transition members participating directly in the communications.

He is "unsure" because the NSA hasn't released the evidence yet. News broke today that while the FBI is not cooperating, the NSA is and will release a smoking gun that implicates Obama. If this is legit it will be the greatest trouble a president has ever been in.




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Potential 'smoking gun' showing Obama administration spied on Trump team, source says | Fox News
Republican congressional investigators expect a potential “smoking gun” establishing that the Obama administration spied on the Trump transition team, and possibly the president-elect himself, will be produced to the House Intelligence Committee this week, a source told Fox News.
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Intelligence Reports Reveal Improper Political Surveillance of Trump, Transition Team
A House intelligence committee investigation took a dramatic shift this week after newly disclosed intelligence reports suggested the Obama administration improperly gathered and disseminated secret electronic communications from President Trump and his transition team prior to inauguration.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, indicated that the administration used its foreign intelligence gathering authority to spy on the discussions of Trump and his transition team by improperly unmasking the identity of Americans who were swept up in foreign electronic spying.
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Pretty fucking stupid to go on TV with multiple press conferences & interviews making claims with no evidence.

No doubt you'll make and excuse.

White Nationalist Trump supporters always make excuses.

A lie is a lie is a lie

If any of this is true, it will make Watergate look small and unimportant.