If you think this is fun now, just wait till Friday! The net is closing.
GOP intel chair: “Very possible” US intel gathered Russia surveillance directly involving Trump
“It’s very possible” Donald Trump himself might be personally involved as part of the “incidental intelligence” gathered during United States’ government monitoring of the communications of Russian nationals located here. Incidental intelligence is what the intelligence community (IC) calls information involving or about people who were not specifically targeted by intelligence or counterintelligence investigations.
This bombshell revelation came when the Chair, GOP Representative Devin Nunes, and Ranking Member, Democratic Representative Adam Schiff, of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence met with the press to discuss their investigation into Trump’s allegation that now-former President Barack Obama wire-tapped Trump’s phones during the presidential campaign.
Watch and listen to this exchange between NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Katie Hunt and Nunes:
Hunt: “Do you have any reason to believe that the President himself or anyone working for him in the White House would be one of these names that may have been swept up in something that could then have ultimately been leaked, like what happened to Michael Flynn?”
Nunes: “Well, I think it’s very possible. But, like I said, we should know that by Friday.”
Hunt: “Do you think the President himself might be one of those people that was swept up in this?”
Nunes: “It’s possible. I mean look…”
For the Republican Chair of the committee to be saying that is devastating. The Intelligence Community is responsible for producing the names of those Americans unmasked by incidental collection to the Committee by Friday, March 17th.
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