Things just went from bad to worse for Devi(l) Nunes and the White House

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Devin Nunes has some explaining to do.

The New York Times just reported that two White House officials helped provide Nunes with information that President Trump and his associates had been swept up in legal surveillance, just before Nunes briefed Trump himself and then disclosed some of the information to the media and to the House Intelligence Committee that he chairs.

The Times’ sources identified the officials as Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, and Michael Ellis, national security lawyer in the Office of White House Counsel:

The officials said that earlier this month, shortly after Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter about being wiretapped on the orders of President Barack Obama, Mr. Cohen-Watnick began reviewing highly classified reports detailing the intercepted communications of foreign officials.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/03/30/things-just-went-from-bad-to-worse-for-devin-nunes-and-the-white-house/?utm_term=.8420710e0426

[still_one]

1. He should be slapped with an ethics violations, and immediately removed from the investigation

[Angry Dragon]

13. yes

[Warpy]

2. Good. He's not a smart man

and fear will cause him to make bigger and bigger mistakes, his stories getting loonier and loonier.

[L. Coyote]

4. Don't under-estimate them. They are cyber-lynching Obama to politicize the criminal inquiry.

They are going to turn this into a new Benghazi, and go after Obama and try to jail him. It is their retaliatory action and an effort to get all the evidence against them thrown out as tainted by political motive. It will all be "the black guy's fault" when they are done if we let them continue this effort without pushing back.

[Warpy]

5. My comment was about Nunes

and not the real sleazebags in the West Wing and Congress. You bet your ass they want to get the NSA and FBI off their phone lines. They went to Congress to get rich and don't want any damned investigation slowing them down.

Nunes might be the fly in their ointment as his mistakes become more numerous and obvious.

[adigal]

7. I agree that is their intent....but I think Mr. 38% has ZERO chance to get Obama, Mr. 68 or 70%

Trump is going to lose that battle....bigly.

[BadgerMom]

8. I agree, Adigal

Their intent is clearly nefarious. This time, though, I think the media, the Democrats and voters smart enough to be dissatisfied all see what they're doing. They're not getting away with their shenanigans now. It's not 2016 anymore, criminals.

[NewRedDawn]

16. Make that Mr. 35% Thank you.

[notdarkyet]

9. I saw that, too. Need to hurry and get them all out. If not, it will be war.

[L. Coyote]

11. Check the Twitter feed to see what #TrumpsTrolls are pushing. Coordinated cyber-lynching of Obama.

They are hitting the trending #SenateIntelligenceCommittee hashtag.

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[L. Coyote]

3. Michael Ellis was Special Counsel of the House Comm. just a few days back, then went to the WH.

I fingered him as the guy a few days ago. He was Nunes' lawyer at the House Comm., in effect. It seems a HUUUUGE conflict of interest for a chief counsel lawyer to switch sides from investigator to target's lawyer.

L. Coyote Tue Mar 28, 2017
1. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Special Counsel, Michael Ellis, now works for Trump

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028861822

The lawyer for the House committee investigating #TrumpRussia went to the White House to represent trump.

Wow, does that ever scream "We need a special prosecutor."

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[OldHippieChick]

14. I am an old person and have never seen such blatant

flaunting of everything that is lawful, ethical and correct. Who is supposed to watch over these fools and if it's the Repuchnicks in Congress then to whom do we turn? ACLU? Where do I send my money and offer my time. I am a lawyer, but this is not my area of expertise.

[panader0]

23. A hippie and a lawyer---I'm in love.

[OldHippieChick]

24. Aw schucks

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Excellent reminder of a brazen move by the amateur tRump gang. . . nt

[OliverQ]

6. Rand Paul is currently defending all this on CNN.

[Honeycombe8]

10. Not sure if things have gotten worse for them, if nothing is done.

So far, not much is being done about anything. All the collusion, all the lies are going without so much as a slap on the wrist. Except for Flynn. And he hasn't been charged with anything. He just lost one of his several jobs.

[ffr]

12. LOCK THEM UP!

Criminals and conspirators, all!

[SCVDem]

18. Start building the gallows.

They would do the same for Bowe Bergdahl. sp.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

15. Paul Ryan is complicit in the lies and obstruction if he fails to remove Nunes. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Nunes rushing to tell tRump info his staff had already told him was coverup of coverup of the crime.

Nunes knew the guys were WH staffers and then he lied when he said that nobody on the WH staff knew he was on the grounds of the WH reviewing top secret materials.

Further, he rushed over to tell tRump, but tRump already knew because the two guys work for him. Rushing over was just a coverup for this episode in the coverup of the #TrumpRussia crime.

Nunes is an amateur at this coverup game. His ineptness incriminates him more and more and hurt tRump-Bannon-Ryan's chances.

[leanforward]

20. After reading many of the above comments,

I agree. They have destroyed the public trust in order to win personally and party wise. Let's don't hurt them, just let them suffer in their remaining days. No matter how long they live. THIS trash is not pardonable.

I am a loyal citizen in opposition to pRezident dRumpf and any GOP lemming.

Follow the money.

[Historic NY]

21. In other words they were leakers....

assigned to the task.

[Ligyron]

22. So Flynn had hired this Cohen-Watnick character for the WH and he used to work for the NSA/NSC.

Nothing funny going on here at all, right?