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The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is accusing top political aides of President Obama of making hundreds of requests during the 2016 presidential race to unmask the names of Americans in intelligence reports, including Trump transition officials.
Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), in a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, said the requests were made without specific justifications on why the information was needed.
“We have found evidence that current and former government officials had easy access to U.S. person information and that it is possible that they used this information to achieve partisan political purposes, including the selective, anonymous leaking of such information,” Nunes wrote in the letter to Coats.
The letter was provided to The Hill from a source in the intelligence community.
In Thursday’s letter, Nunes said the total requests for Americans’ names by Obama political aides numbered in the hundreds during Obama’s last year in office and often lacked a specific intelligence community justification. He called the lack of proper justifications a “serious deficiency.”
originally posted by: Perfectenemy
This will take years to sort through. A lot of people blasted Nunes because he had no evidence of the unlawful unmaskings and it was all fake news. Well not so fake anymore. I like Nunes and i hope this vindicates him at least a little bit.
Screw Schiff.
originally posted by: Perfectenemy
I guess she isn't so eager to testify anymore luckily they didn't set a date yet. I'm calling it now. Something will come up and they will try to stall her testimony into oblivion.
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originally posted by: annoyedpharmacist
originally posted by: Perfectenemy
I guess she isn't so eager to testify anymore luckily they didn't set a date yet. I'm calling it now. Something will come up and they will try to stall her testimony into oblivion.
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The "stall for 2 years, then flip the script and say it is old news and has been investigated already" plan. A good old standby of the left.
Obama-era officials sought the identities of Trump transition officials within intelligence reports
it is possible that they used this information to achieve partisan political purposes, including the selective, anonymous leaking of such information
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: xuenchen
The Rice testimony was postponed I thought?
originally posted by: burntheships
a reply to: theantediluvian
Is that all that the Dems care about, the "narrative"
Whether it is true that hundreds of people were illegally
surveillance matters not?
originally posted by: Perfectenemy
originally posted by: burntheships
a reply to: theantediluvian
Is that all that the Dems care about, the "narrative"
Whether it is true that hundreds of people were illegally
surveillance matters not?
I'm already looking forward to their spin on the whole investigation into Lynch and Hillary with a second special counsel. Comey was already pardoned so he has nothing to worry about i guess. Like i said this is gonna be a great week.
Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), in a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, said the requests were made without specific justifications on why the information was needed.