No fucking shit. Rep Nunes just got alleged "leaked" information and ran straight to Trump with it. And thank God he did. I did not know how we were going to be able to make the conservative/Republican/Tea Party/White Supremacist members of congress agree to name a special prosecutor and select committee.

But thankfully I think Nunes just did that for us.

 

Feeling good Jimmy Ray.

Love when the government keeps the mainland safe by conducting legal surveillance of foreign governments. Keep up the good work.

 

Man Tasked With Investigating Trump’s Ties To Russia Makes Friendly Visit To White House

Rep. Devin Nunes’ bombshell disclosures about surveillance on Trump associates raise more questions than they answer.

WASHINGTON ― Investigators don’t normally brief the people they’re investigating. But on Wednesday afternoon, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the Republican who’s leading a congressional investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s team colluded with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election, went to the White House to talk to the president.

Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a close Trump ally, said the intercepted communications didn’t mention Russia and were therefore unrelated to his investigation. But the subject matter ― the intelligence community’s investigation of Trump and his associates’ connections to foreign powers ― overlapped. And Nunes’ objective appeared political: Deflect attention from Trump and his associates’ ties to Russia, and back up Trump’s claim that he is a victim of “deep state” loyal to former President Barack Obama.

Nunes’ gambit failed. In attempting to put out the Trump-Russia fire, he made much of it worse: In two press conferences on Wednesday, he confirmed that Trump’s surrogates ― and maybe the president himself ― were subjects of legal surveillance, implied that they may have had suspicious contact with agents from a country other than Russia, and potentially disclosed classified information.

“If a Democrat had done this, Republicans would have been asking for him to be investigated both for disclosing classified information and for obstructing justice,” said Matthew Miller, a Department of Justice spokesman during the Obama administration. “It is so far beyond the pale for the person who is conducting an investigation to both brief the subject of that investigation and potentially jeopardize an ongoing criminal investigation being conducted by the FBI.”

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58d2e0b5e4b02d33b748452d?

 

Schiff: I have 'grave concerns' over Nunes's surveillance claim

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) criticized Nunes for his surprise announcement earlier in the day that he had seen intelligence intercepts that showed authorities had incidentally gathered information on members of the Trump transition team during investigations that the chairman said were not related to Russia.

Schiff maintained that if Trump and his aides ended up in a lawfully compiled intelligence report, they were likely not the subjects of surveillance.

"As to the substance of what the Chairman has alleged, if the information was lawfully gathered intelligence on foreign officials, that would mean that U.S. persons would not have been the subject of surveillance," he said.

"In my conversation late this afternoon, the Chairman informed me that most of the names in the intercepted communications were in fact masked, but that he could still figure out the probable identity of the parties," he added.

Schiff also said that it is "impossible" to evaluate the accuracy of Nunes's claim while reiterating that the committee does not support the president's wiretapping allegation.

http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...grave-concerns-over-nunes-surveillance-claims

 

Nunes fucked up.

The latest Trump wiretapping news, explained in plain English

What Nunes said

There were a few key phrases Nunes’ said in his statement and subsequent Q&A that helped clarify what, exactly, he claims to have discovered.

The first is “incidentally collected.” In intelligence jargon, that means the Trump officials were not the target of surveillance — that what they said was “incidentally” picked up by surveillance intentionally targeting someone else.

The second is “legally collected foreign intelligence.” What Nunes meant here is that the communications were between Trump and a foreign national, under surveillance authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). FISA allows secret courts to issue surveillance warrants for non-Americans.

Third, Nunes flatly denied any link between what he saw and the Russian intelligence probe: “None of this surveillance was related to Russia, or the investigation of Russian activities.”

So put this all together, and what Nunes actually found becomes at least somewhat clear. The US intelligence community, during legally authorized surveillance of foreign nationals, picked up communications between members of Trump’s campaign and some unspecified, but definitely not Russian, individuals.

US spies, per Nunes, hadn’t intentionally targeted the Trump team, but instead acquired some information about them over the course of normal activities.

What’s strange, according to intelligence experts, is that there’s nothing scandalous in that. The US intelligence community routinely monitors communications between US officials and foreign dignitaries; there’s no reason to believe the Trump transition team would be exempt from that.

“That’s what the intel community specializes in — spying on foreigners!” Nada Bakos, a former CIA analyst and current senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, tells me. “Does the White House not presume that foreign nationals are being monitored by US intelligence when talking to US officials?”

What’s left unclear

If what Nunes did say didn’t tell us a lot, what he didn’t say opens up a whole series of tantalizing questions. There are at least seven open questions:

Given the lack of crucial information, and Nunes’ failure to speak first with the FBI director, Bakos found the entire decision to go public somewhat confusing.

“This is cherry-picking information and then releasing it publicly,” she said. “This is not how an investigation should be done.”

Trump and his allies allies are falsely claiming it supports their wiretapping claim.

One thing that is very clear, however, is that nothing Nunes said vindicates Trump’s claim that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. Nunes said, explicitly, that “there was not a physical wiretap of Trump Tower. The fact that the collection was “incidental” means that there wasn’t any order to surveil Trump or his associates directly revealed by Nunes’ evidence. And Trump claimed that Obama spied on him during the campaign, while what Nunes’ is describing happened after the election.

“This does not back up Trump’s claim at all,” Bakos says.

Yet Trump, and some of his allies, seem to have taken it that way. Sean Hannity tweeted that it “confirms SURVEILLANCE VS @POTUS.” A pro-Trump SuperPAC is already fundraising off the revelations:

— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) March 22, 2017

This is leading some more observers to allege that Nunes’ plan all along: Release information in an intentionally confusing fashion that allows Trump to more plausibly claim that he was being surveilled intentionally even though it shows nothing of the kind.

— Evan McMullin (@Evan_McMullin) March 22, 2017


— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) March 22, 2017

This is hard to prove, of course. But it’s clear that these observers are right to be worried about the misuse of Nunes’ revelations — and to wonder if there was some way that Nunes could have raised his concerns without also confusing the public.

The latest Trump wiretapping news, explained in plain English https://a.msn.com/r/2/BByBAs2?m=en-us&ocid=News

 

Spin it any way you want.

The Trump campaign was surveilled. And the feeds were distributed far and wide. And names were unmasked.

And Obama was in charge at the time.

Trump was right. Of course he was right.

Christ. The New York Times itself reported all the way back in January that it had learned of the Flynn bullshit from wiretaps. They "fixed" their headlines of course on the Internet, and now all your bullshit "fact-check" sites claim they never said it.

But if the TRUTH matters to you, go to a damned library, and find the dead-tree versions of the New York Times for January. Orwell doesn't have his way just yet. The TRUTH cannot be erased. Not yet. They can scour their Internet docs, and Soros'es bullshit "factcheck" sites can load Google's first five pages with misinformation. But none of that negates the truth.

Not yet.

The Trump campaign was surveilled by the Obama administration.

 

Now let's hear that apology from ohdumbass...

 

They were surveilled, despite the fact that the Obama Administration's FISA requests were rejected twice.

But you won't get an apology from the President of the World.

 

With all the illegal leaked info concerning the Trump administration, it would take a complete idiot to think the Obama administration did not focus surveillance on the incoming administration. This will be broken wide open and President Trump will be proven right.

 

Obama will never go to jail.

Same for the little fish.

The fucker who unmasked Flynn committed several felonies, but Comey actually yawned when the topic came up. None of the fucking lowlifes will ever be tried.

 

May get to the point where Obama has to throw someone under the buss....
he will then acted shocked that person would do such a thing.....

But it is hard to believe the FBI did not know about this....

This aint over --- there is a bunch of info that is still coming out....
Nunes just scratched the surface and he let it out because the Dems in the committee would have tried to bury it....

 

It's all such bullshit. This was Washington D.C.'s most poorly kept secret, because the feeds were distributed throughout the bureacracy for months.

This is a re-affirmation of the media's outrageous bias. The mainstream media has been hounding Trump and demanding that he apologize for blaspheming their Messiah. And Brian Williams was actually speculating on open mic that Trump's "lies" about Obama might be the beginning of the end for his administration.

Yet EVERYONE in Washington knew it was true all along, which means the mainstream media knew, too.

 

@clarise, @Mr Smith 36, @RandyKnight, @conroe4

Wrong as usual. I report facts. NYT article was about the Russians. Flynn, Stone, Manifort, and Page are all connected to the Russian investigation. Keep going with the distractions.

 

It is being reported Nunes is NOT in possession of the alleged transcripts. This means (if the transcripts exist) the transcripts are located at the FBI, CIA, or NSA. These are classified transcripts. Which means Nunes leaked classified information to the press.

The other side of that is someone in one of those intelligence agencies leaked the transcripts to Nunes. Nunes then leaked classified information to the press.

Wasn't Nunes the one whining about leaks.

Nunes. Leaking classified information is a felony.

 

FBI has info suggesting coordination between Trump aides, Russia: report

The FBI has information suggesting that associates of President Trump may have worked with Russian operatives to release information aimed at hurting former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign, CNN reported Wednesday, citing U.S. officials.

https://a.msn.com/r/2/BByBR4C?m=en-us&ocid=News

 

The funny thing is in these classified transcripts, Nunes himself said everything was legal and nobody was unmasked. You could infer who it was though without the unmasking. For whatever that is worth.

I just love how you right wingers have no clue how government works. Nunes apparently does not understand how you conduct an investigation.

 

When all of this gets aired out, brought out into the spotlight...

It will be examined with objectivity, and for you leftists, that means with an openmind, something that you have a hard time coming to grips with.

It will be determined that Trump was 100% correct, ''Trump was wiretapped''...

The opposition to the Trump Administration will be exposed for what it is..

This little manufactured excercise will have severe consequences and justifiable blowback politically..

The left's call for Trump's impeachment, on day one mind you, the left's call for for Trump's head on a stick, the left's call for Judicial activism, hindering the Constitutional right and lawful excercise of POTUS, the left's call for violent uprise in the streets, will have serious implications.

The political left and their unhinged supporters still have no idea why Trump was elected.

 

The media aluded to this months ago, (not a secret),was it ''fake news'', or at this stage of the game, is it now as it has always been ''protecting Obama''?

Right now...I dont care what the truth is, I want the truth.

For the shits and giggles of it...I'll be able to handle the truth.

I'll be examining 2 different points;

Was it for political advantage for Trump...(Trump involved...)

Or; was it for political advantage , and Trump was not involved.

Mind you, it was the leftists that made the claim that our election process is sound, when Trump made the claim that our election process involves fraud.

 

Aces, your last sentence says it all.

The Left claimed the process was sound. And Obama most of all, who ridiculed Trump for suggesting otherwise, all the way back in September.

If Hillary had won, we would not be hearing anything about Russian involvement, or hacking, or anything else. None of this nonsense would exist. Instead, from November 9 to the present day, the media would have been proclaiming the success of an electoral system that brought Hlllay Clinton LEGITIMATELY to power. An unhackable, uncorruptible, untainted, LEGITIMATE system.