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kentuck

(111,079 posts)
Wed Apr 5, 2017, 08:58 PM Apr 2017

Who was the "whistleblower-type" person that Paul Ryan mentioned?

Was he a whistle-blower or was he a "leaker"? We now know that it was some younger NSC workers in the White House that gave the info to Nunes. We don't know who gave them the orders? But, Bannon was removed from the NSC today...
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ryan-nunes-whistelblower-trump-russia

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In an interview that aired Thursday morning, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said that House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes (R-CA) spoke with a "whistle-blower type person" before alleging that information on President Donald Trump and his associates was incidentally collected by the intelligence community.

"He had told me that — like, a whistleblower-type person had given him some information that was new that spoke to the last administration and part of this investigation,” Ryan told CBS News. “He briefs me about it, didn’t know the content of it, only knew the nature of it and that he was going to brief others.”

Ryan said he did not tell Nunes to brief Trump but that Nunes made that decision himself.

"Oh — he was gonna brief everybody. He — I already knew he was going to go and brief. So the — what Chairman Nunes said is he just came into possession of new information that he thought was valuable to this investigation, and that he was going to go and inform people about it," the speaker said.

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Who was the "whistleblower-type" person that Paul Ryan mentioned? (Original Post) kentuck Apr 2017 OP
Perhaps "whistleblower" was a euphemism for another term that was NSFW jberryhill Apr 2017 #1
LOL!! 2naSalit Apr 2017 #2

2naSalit

(86,536 posts)
2. LOL!!
Wed Apr 5, 2017, 10:01 PM
Apr 2017

Probably what EddieMunster was thinking under his breath so to speak. What a, a... one of those.

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