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What Devin Nunes Knows

Team Obama was spying broadly on the incoming administration.

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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 goes far beyond a mere scandal. It’s a potential crime.

We’ve known since early February that a call by former national security adviser Mike Flynn to the Russian ambassador was monitored by U.S. intelligence. There’s nothing improper in tapping foreign officials. But it was improper that Mr. Flynn’s name was revealed and leaked to the press, along with the substance of his conversation. The media nonetheless excused all this by claiming one piece of Mr. Flynn’s conversation (sanctions) was relevant to the continuing investigation into Trump-Russia ties.

Around the same time, Mr. Nunes’s own intelligence sources informed him that documents showed further collection of information about, and unmasking of, Trump transition officials. These documents aren’t easily obtainable, since they aren’t the “finished” intelligence products that Congress gets to see. Nonetheless, for weeks Mr. Nunes has been demanding intelligence agencies turn over said documents—with no luck, so far.

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.

Mr. Schiff’s howls about Mr. Nunes’s methods are bluster; the Republican was doing his job, and well. Mr. Nunes has spent years cultivating whistleblowers and sources as part of his oversight responsibilities, and that network scored him information that has otherwise remained hidden. It isn’t clear if the White House itself attempted to obtain these documents, but even if it did, the Senate has confirmed few Trump political appointees, which means there aren’t many loyal staffers among the Obama holdovers to attempt it. It’s also possible the Trump White House was wary of making such a demand, since it would inevitably leak. The last thing the administration wants is wild speculation that it was interfering with the FBI’s Russia probe.

Meantime, few things match the ludicrous furor over Mr. Nunes’s source-meeting place, or his visit to brief Mr. Trump. Congress members must view most classified material on executive-branch grounds, since that’s the only way to access it physically. Having discovered the former administration’s surveillance of Trump officials, Mr. Nunes had a duty to let the White House know. (Imagine if he’d sat on it.) He could hardly let Democrats know first, since their only interest these days is in leaking and twisting stories. And the reason he held press briefings before and after his meeting with Mr. Trump was to be transparent about his purpose.


Hint to the press corps: If Mr. Nunes wanted to tip off the White House about his Russia probe, it’d be a lot easier to speed-dial Steve Bannon secretly from his office.

If Mr. Schiff wants to be trusted with important information, he might start by proving he is trustworthy—rather than rumor-mongering that there is “more than circumstantial evidence” of Trump-Russia collusion. He might voice some concern that a prior White House was monitoring its political opponents. He might ask whether Obama officials had been “reverse monitoring”—tracking foreign officials solely so they could spy on the Trump team.

Mr. Nunes has zero reason to recuse himself from this probe, because he is doing his job. It’s Mr. Schiff who ought to be considering recusal, for failing to do his own.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-devin-nunes-knows-1490914396

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Around the same time, Mr. Nunes’s own intelligence sources informed him that documents showed further collection of information about, and unmasking of, Trump transition officials. These documents aren’t easily obtainable, since they aren’t the “finished” intelligence products that Congress gets to see. Nonetheless, for weeks Mr. Nunes has been demanding intelligence agencies turn over said documents—with no luck, so far.

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The left doesn't require any real evidence before pronouncing guilt, this should be enough to arrest Obama and frog march his ass into his mugshot photo op eh [;)]

that people, is coming from THE alt-whiner who has been shown to be wrong 3 times this past week so bad that he had to bailout and start multiple threads... (like this one!) to cover for how fucked up his hero and favorite colon to lick rump is learning his bankruptcy business skills don't work on everyone.

hey boss-hoe! the farmers are still looking for u to be the post ur dumb as!! The post hole is gettn deeper for ya!!

since u forget ur head is the part with "stupid" tatoo'd on it.


ur collarchat group calls u "dumb as a post"


and this post makes it certifiable. lets see how this really stupid thread looks 3 years from now.

Not only will rump be the one getting a mug shot, but the place he's getting it for is the loony bin...

because rump goes insane from the polls saying he's never had approval ratings as high as Obama. (kinda like his under-attended inauguration!!)

Pence runs alone in 2020.... and loses.

in a Romney-like move, the repugs throw him under the bus for the loss 3 days after.

cant wait for boss-hoe to "maniacally" wet his pants now.... LOL!!

You're saying you can't wait for him to wet his pants because you're projecting what you do in similar situations? Don't count on it. It less than 70 days in. EPA gutted, Obama's pen and phone gone and replaced. SCOUS in a week or so, Ginsburb about to go, Stevens right behind her. Car manufacturing coming back to Michigan. You got a lot to hate left. Don't use it all up yet.

boss-hoe's (sock) hoe replies for him.... how quaint!

oh geez.....SO tough work rumps done....LOL..... his failures have been bigger than his wimpy few wins. Already talking courting Dems to rescue his trumpcare mess, and his EO debacles have been well documented. That of course after bitching that Obama (quite successfully)did it.

rump cant get away from his Russian lover putin overshadowing rumps campaign cuz his operatives emails ARE full off talk with Russian officials.... SCOUS aint even his victory,- its congressional repugnicans win.

So u saber-rattling ur points is just so much rumps anal hot air ur rebreathing.

so go join ur dumb as a post mate..... the post hole for ur head is right after his.

Can you communicate in English?

He is really special, isn't he

What's most special? He thinks people should call him "sir"

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Top Obama Adviser Sought Names of Trump Associates in Intel



White House lawyers last month learned that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The pattern of Rice's requests was discovered in a National Security Council review of the government's policy on "unmasking" the identities of individuals in the U.S. who are not targets of electronic eavesdropping, but whose communications are collected incidentally. Normally those names are redacted from summaries of monitored conversations and appear in reports as something like "U.S. Person One."

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Nah, Lucy says what she says, and I call you a felchgobbling factless nutsucker retard, because thats what you are wilbur, even your voices are telling you that.

You are heavy on the retard, and gobble great gobs of PutinJizz, wilbur.

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White House logs indicate Susan Rice consumed unmasked intel on Trump associates

Computer logs that former President Obama’s team left behind in the White House indicate his national security adviser Susan Rice accessed numerous intelligence reports during Obama's last seven months in office that contained National Security Agency intercepts involving Donald Trump and his associates, Circa has learned.

Intelligence sources said the logs discovered by National Security Council staff suggested Rice’s interest in the NSA materials, some of which included unmasked Americans' identities, appeared to begin last July around the time Trump secured the GOP nomination and accelerated after Trump’s election in November launched a transition that continued through January.

The intelligence reports included some intercepts of Americans talking to foreigners and many more involving foreign leaders talking about the future president, his campaign associates or his transition, the sources said. Most if not all had nothing to do with the Russian election interference scandal, the sources said, speaking only on condition of anonymity given the sensitive nature of the materials.

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Nope, nothing but nutsucker cockgargling and felchgobbling at the moment. You go toiletlicker, Da Svedanya, Nootzukorshki!

Gobble that putinjizz.

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In addition to the data collected — which was said to have been incidental to the actual targets of any investigations — the names of several people within the Trump transition team had been unmasked. And the data collection had begun earlier than originally thought:

Our sources: This surveillance that led to the unmasking of private names of American citizens started before Trump was the GOP nominee.
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) March 31, 2017

The unmasking of the names of American citizens, noted by former CIA intelligence officer and LTC Tony Shaffer, could amount to a felony offense — and sources informed Fox News that the person responsible for the unmasking was very well known in the intelligence community:

The U.S. intelligence official who “unmasked,” or exposed, the names of multiple private citizens affiliated with the Trump team is someone “very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world,” a source told Fox News on Friday.

Intelligence and House sources with direct knowledge of the disclosure of classified names told Fox News that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., now knows who is responsible — and that person is not in the FBI.

A congressional source also told Fox News that in addition to unmasking the names — which was bad enough — the truly egregious offense was the fact that the names appear to have been unmasked for political purposes:

“The main issue in this case, is not only the unmasking of these names of private citizens, but the spreading of these names for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security or an investigation into Russia’s interference in the U.S. election,” a congressional source close to the investigation told Fox News.

Our sources: Unmasking the names and then spreading the names was for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) March 31, 2017

Another source concurred with that assessment, saying that the information was gathered specifically to damage the Trump administration:

“Unmasking is not unprecedented, but unmasking for political purposes ... specifically of Trump transition team members ... is highly suspect and questionable,” an intelligence source told Fox News. “Opposition by some in the intelligence agencies who were very connected to the Obama and Clinton teams was strong. After Trump was elected, they decided they were going to ruin his presidency by picking them off one by one.”

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this was a topic on "the five" today and the fox reporter investigating/reporting on the story was asked if sometimes the surveillance of foreigners was an excuse to spy on americans, and he said that his source told him that does indeed occur.

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this was a topic on "the five" today and the fox reporter investigating/reporting on the story was asked if sometimes the surveillance of foreigners was an excuse to spy on americans, and he said that his source told him that does indeed occur.

Right - they apparently targeted Trump indirectly. Because NSA rules won't let them target Americans, they targeted foreigners who they knew the Trump transition team would normally talk to for legitimate purposes so they could "overhear" information they could use against the new president for political purposes

Which they did, specifically against Flynn

Susan Rice began targeting Trump before he was even the nominee, and her intelligence gathering spiked after Trump won the general election

Felonious behavior, but very typical of the alt left - as they scream that we are supposed to join them in their Putin derangement syndrome mania about nothing

Back when President Trump first tweeted about this and the left screamed that he had lost his mind, I knew that he would be proven correct. He knew exactly what he was tweeting about

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Nope, nothing but nutsucker cockgargling and felchgobbling at the moment. You go toiletlicker, Da Svedanya, Nootzukorshki!

Gobble that putinjizz.

since you lack the capacity to recognize what a fool you already are, that explains why its so easy for you to double down on it.

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this was written a day ago so some of the story, as shared above, has since developed. also, some of it is repetitive, but there are some new elements it adds:

"Someone Very Well Known, Very High Up' Responsible for Unmasking Names in Collected Trump Data"

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In addition to the data collected — which was said to have been incidental to the actual targets of any investigations — the names of several people within the Trump transition team had been unmasked. And the data collection had begun earlier than originally thought:

Our sources: This surveillance that led to the unmasking of private names of American citizens started before Trump was the GOP nominee.
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) March 31, 2017

The unmasking of the names of American citizens, noted by former CIA intelligence officer and LTC Tony Shaffer, could amount to a felony offense — and sources informed Fox News that the person responsible for the unmasking was very well known in the intelligence community:

The U.S. intelligence official who “unmasked,” or exposed, the names of multiple private citizens affiliated with the Trump team is someone “very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world,” a source told Fox News on Friday.

Intelligence and House sources with direct knowledge of the disclosure of classified names told Fox News that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., now knows who is responsible — and that person is not in the FBI.

A congressional source also told Fox News that in addition to unmasking the names — which was bad enough — the truly egregious offense was the fact that the names appear to have been unmasked for political purposes:

“The main issue in this case, is not only the unmasking of these names of private citizens, but the spreading of these names for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security or an investigation into Russia’s interference in the U.S. election,” a congressional source close to the investigation told Fox News.

Our sources: Unmasking the names and then spreading the names was for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) March 31, 2017

Another source concurred with that assessment, saying that the information was gathered specifically to damage the Trump administration:

“Unmasking is not unprecedented, but unmasking for political purposes ... specifically of Trump transition team members ... is highly suspect and questionable,” an intelligence source told Fox News. “Opposition by some in the intelligence agencies who were very connected to the Obama and Clinton teams was strong. After Trump was elected, they decided they were going to ruin his presidency by picking them off one by one.”

http://ijr.com/2017/04/838314-someone-well-known-high-responsible-unmasking-names-collected-trump-data/