NY Times - "2 White House Officials Helped Give Nunes Intelligence Reports"

[TomCADem]

Haven't we been down this road before with Nunes getting talking points from the White House, making a bombshell announcement that he has access to intelligence exonerating Trump and telling Trump about the information, which was originally fed to him by the Trump White House? Isn't that what helped lead to Nunes on-again, off-again recusal?

Anyone else having a sense of deja vu?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/devin-nunes-intelligence-reports.html

WASHINGTON — A pair of White House officials helped provide Representative Devin Nunes of California, a Republican and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that showed that President Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies.

The revelation on Thursday that White House officials disclosed the reports, which Mr. Nunes then discussed with Mr. Trump, is likely to fuel criticism that the intelligence chairman has been too eager to do the bidding of the Trump administration while his committee is supposed to be conducting an independent investigation of Russia’s meddling in the presidential election.

It is the latest twist of a bizarre Washington drama that began after dark on March 21, when Mr. Nunes got a call from a person he has described only as a source. The call came as he was riding across town in an Uber car, and he quickly diverted to the White House. The next day, Mr. Nunes gave a hastily arranged news conference before going to brief Mr. Trump on what he had learned the night before from — as it turns out — White House officials.

The chain of events — and who helped provide the intelligence to Mr. Nunes — was detailed to The New York Times by four American officials.

[rzemanfl]

2. K&R n/t.

[procon]

3. Are you just whiffing or is the NY Times actually reporting news?

Other than imaginative speculation, I don't see the correlation you seem to be alluding to.

[TomCADem]

5. NYT - House Democrats Ask Devin Nunes to Recuse Himself From Russia Inquiry

I mean didn't Nunes get himself recused for pulling a similar stunt a few months ago?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/us/politics/devin-nunes-house-intelligence-committee-white-house-wiretap.html

WASHINGTON — Top House Democrats on Monday called on the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee to recuse himself from the panel’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, thrusting the entire inquiry into jeopardy amid what they described as mounting evidence he was too close to President Trump to be impartial.

The demands followed revelations that the committee’s chairman, Representative Devin Nunes of California, had met on White House grounds with a source who showed him secret American intelligence reports. The reports, Mr. Nunes said last week, showed that Mr. Trump or his closest associates may have been “incidentally” swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies.

The new revelation that the information actually came from a meeting held on the grounds of the White House intensified questions about what prompted Mr. Nunes to make the claim about the intelligence gathering, and who gave him the information.

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The revelation that Mr. Nunes had viewed intelligence materials on White House grounds the day before bolstering the administration’s case fueled damaging speculation that he was acting at the instruction of the president. That could prove fatal to the bipartisan investigation, which has hinged on the ability of Mr. Nunes to conduct a neutral inquiry while maintaining the trust and cooperation of Mr. Schiff.

[procon]

8. You're referencing last year's news as if there is a similar breaking news report

happening right now. There is nothing in any current news that says Nunes is doing a repeat performance... yet.

Not that I would put anything past Nunes, but unless you have a current link that shows the press is reporting that he is once again up to old tricks of colluding with the WH, this remains old news.

[TomCADem]

9. This is General Discussion, In Latest News...

You have Devin Nunes touting the release of a secret memo (that he wrote), which complains not about the fact that Trump's campaign was caught being in frequent contact with the Russians, but that they were caught. Also, the White House is cheering the release of the memo over the objections of the DOJ.

This is why I say deja vu. The whole point is that what is old is new again with Nunes working overtime to run interference with the White House in collaboration with the White House.

[BigmanPigman]

4. But, but, gee golly...he excused himself from that.

Give the poor innocent kiss ass a break. Haven't you heard how his money is all tied up in banks in Cypress and the deal with communications on the Azores (Russians too?) is making him a little verklempt and frazzled lately. Poor, poor Nunes,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chairman-and-partisan-the-dual-roles-of-devin-nunes-raise-questions-about-house-investigation/2017/03/26/2c95ade2-1096-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html

[bigtree]

6. k&r

[Amaryllis]

7. What people keep forgetting is that Nunes talked to Ryan before going to the WH. He got his

marching orders from Ryan. O'Donnell was all over this and kept screaming at the media about it. Clearly shows Ryan also complicit: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210094016