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Devin Nunes: Trump Communications ‘Incidentally’ Collected By Intelligence Agencies | NBC News
Nunes: Surveillance collected about Trump transition team
In an extraordinary move, the chairman of the House panel investigating Russian interference in the presidential election bypassed his own committee Wednesday to brief President Trump on information related to U.S. surveillance of his transition team.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said he had learned from a source that the U.S. intelligence community incidentally collected information on members of Trump’s transition team and then “widely disseminated” the information internally.
Democrats on the committee were blindsided, as were many Republicans. By the end of the day Wednesday, Nunes was still the only committee member to have seen the intelligence in question, according to the committee’s top Democrat.
The move outraged Democrats and threatened to plunge the committee into open partisan warfare.
“The unprecedented comments of Chairman Nunes are an act of diversion and desperation,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement. “The Chairman’s highly irregular conduct with the White House raises serious questions about his impartiality, especially given his history as part of the Trump Transition team.
“Chairman Nunes is deeply compromised, and he cannot possibly lead an honest investigation.”
Nunes was a member of the Trump transition team’s executive committee and has in the past raised eyebrows with his apparent willingness to follow White House requests.
In February, Nunes agreed to a White House request to call a reporter to dispute a report that the FBI had uncovered contact between Russian officials and the president’s campaign. He had already made a similar statement publicly.
Nunes defended his decision to go directly to the president with the information because “what I saw has nothing to do with Russia and nothing to do with the Russia investigation.”
“It has everything to do with possible surveillance activities, and the president needs to know that these intelligence reports are out there, and I have a duty to tell him that,” Nunes said.
But alleged surveillance of the Trump campaign became part of the committee’s investigation after the president’s claim early this month that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower — making Nunes’s decision to cut out members of his own committee unusual.
Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said Nunes’s action “impedes our ability to do this investigation the way we should.”
“The chairman will need to decide whether he is the chairman of an independent investigation into conduct which includes allegations of potential coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russians, or if he is going to act as a surrogate of the White House — because he cannot do both,” Schiff said.
“If the Republican Party wants to do what is best for this country and its national security, they will remove Devin Nunes as Intel Chairman,” MSNBC host Joe Scarborough tweeted.
The exact nature of Nunes’s pronouncement remains unclear. Yet it closely tracks with the longstanding contention of Republicans that the “real story” when it comes to the Russia investigation is the “unmasking” of individuals caught in surveillance and the leaks of sensitive information to the press.
Nunes, who described himself as “alarmed” by what he had learned, said that the collection had been perfectly legal — but raised questions about who requested that the names of Trump associates be “unmasked.”
Under U.S. surveillance law, intelligence agencies may legally use information gathered on Americans as long as it is intercepted “incidentally” — meaning that the U.S. person is not the target of the surveillance.
But personally identifying information is supposed to be hidden to protect the identities of U.S persons, unless officials request that those names be exposed internally.
During a marathon public hearing Monday on the Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation, Republicans repeatedly pressed FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers on who has that authority.
In one exchange, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) ran through a list of senior Obama administration officials, demanding to know if they had access to unmasked names — appearing to suggest that they may have been the source of media leaks about the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia.
Democrats have tolerated the Republican focus on leaks — but that patience may be short-lived after Wednesday.
Last week, Nunes and Schiff together said that they were pressing the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency for information on Trump associates who may have been incidentally spied on and whose names were later unmasked and the intelligence details leaked to the media — such as former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
But on Wednesday afternoon, committee member Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) called Nunes’s announcement “political theater.”
Some committee Republicans backed the beleaguered chair. Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) told reporters that the discovery “raises very serious questions” about the unmasking and dissemination of names.
According to Nunes, the intercepted communications had “little or no apparent foreign intelligence value” and had nothing to do with either Russia or the FBI’s eight-month-old probe into coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign.
Both Nunes and Schiff maintained that the discovery — whatever it entails — does not substantiate the president’s claim that Obama wiretapped him.
Trump said Wednesday that he felt “somewhat vindicated” by Nunes’s statement.
The White House has tried to argue that Trump meant “wiretap” as in surveillance generally, though Republicans and Democrats have largely rejected that assertion.
Comey on Monday rebutted those claims, part of a one-two blow to the White House that day. He also confirmed the FBI’s investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The timing of Nunes’s announcement did not escape Democrats.
“I’m not sure what the point of this extraordinary process is and I have to hope this is not a part of a broader campaign by the White House aimed to deflect from the director’s testimony earlier this week,” Schiff said.
http://politomix.com/the-hill/1070595/intelligence-chairman-sparks-storm-with-trump-briefing/
People, I’m saying this to you solemnly here:
Do I have standing to call out Obama as the Antichrist? My family’s related to Royal Count Leo Tolstoy, to one of the Norwegian Royal Court’s Ladies-in-Waiting, the Mistress of the Robes and to two Norwegian Papal Chamberlains during the last two centuries. Yes, I do indeed have that royal standing to be “entitled” (by royal title and standing) to call out the Antichrist of this time.
I’ve gotten endless flak from BIN admins trying to defend Obama against me revealing the truth about Obama and myself…and they’re listening to the wingbats which are counseling them. I think they’re scared of the truth I’m revealing about Obama.
Indeed, I’m also revealing among other that Obama’s real name is Barry Parks; he’s the son of Jim T. Parks.
People, investigate that by Googling it.
Why is no one recognizing me as Messiah and Jesus’ 2d Coming? Just askin’. It seems strange that that news won’t get out. My being a Buddhist is a plus seeing Jesus himself predicted he’d not return a Christian. Indeed, because all Christians will be corrupted and none will be saved in the end days said Jesus. But “no one knows the day and hour of that news being spread”, not even me, says the Bible, so the truth will hit when it’s ready.
Now to give a short timeline of events leading up to today, let’s look at my youth when I was brought up in the USA and France to a family influenced by Theosophy and schooling such as Rudolf Steiner’s schools. Theosophy’s basic influence is Buddhism from Helena Blavatsky’s Russian background where the influence of Tibetan Buddhism is rife due to the Mongolian Buddhists within the Russian Federation of nations.
My family relative the Royal Count Tolstoy was also a Theosophical spiritualist and corresponded with Gandhi, who also was himself influenced by Buddhism and Theosophy.
My wife and I studied Tibetan language and culture at Paris University for five years in the mid-80s..
But when still a child, when I reached 15 years old, I was attracted to the religious life and sought to find a master to teach me meditation or yoga.
This brought me to Tibetan Buddhism which I practised for many years as a religious Buddhist starting from 1970.
In the late 90s, I sought to pass on my knowledge on Internet and particularly my research upon Kalachakra the deity-teachings which announce the Apocalypse within Tibetan Buddhism.
My work on Internet suddenly screeched to a halt though when Obama started running for president in early 2007 because I saw on Internet a school registration to Obama’s name stating his faith as Muslim: that was a signal of a red flag to me.
Indeed, that set up a red alert signal to me and during the whole of 2007 I dedicated myself solely to fighting against Obama’s election.
To achieve that, I sought to find the most powerful anti-Obama video that I could find on You Tube so as to go and find people to share my convictions with.
Through that same logic I tried to find all kinds of venues, forums, blogs, videos, articles’ comments on Internet etc…so as to criticise and block Obama but I ended up on the video with most views and most comments that deals with the birther issue: Obama Citizenship: I Invented the Internet (Ep. 6: October Surprise)
Obama Citizenship: I Invented The Internet (Ep. 6: October Surprise)
Briefly, my logic during the first years of Obama’s power was that I wasn’t interested in being the Messiah.
Indeed, I am a Buddhist and very content with that. I have no wish to be Christian seeing I’m an ex-Christian.
I have famous people in my family that are Christians.
I have 2 ancestors who were the Pope’s Chamberlain: Baron Wilhelm Wedel-Jarlsberg and Count Christopher de Paus (he’s of Royal Count Tolstoy’s branch of our family).
I’m Buddhist and have rejected Christianity as an evil faith: Tibetan Tantric Buddhism is the highest form of culture in the world and Buddhism hasn’t made war and therefore isn’t evil in making war like Christianity has.
My family was into evil ways when it was Christian – and when it was Anarchist as Tolstoy is the great Anarchist/Communist hero, (who is world-famous).
How did I get pressured against my will to be the Messiah?
Well, I had set my goal on revealing that Obama was the Antichrist of Christianity: indeed, I had the ironclad proof because the lottery draw of 666 cursed Obama the day of his celebration of victory.
I thought of myself as a messenger dropping in on Christians and telling them who their Antichrist was.
I thought of it as “delivery” end times prophecy. We live in the age of drop-off, home-delivery, through Amazon or Domino’s Pizza.
Indeed, Christianity is alien to me. So I wouldn’t want to even be caught dead being the Christian Messiah. I had the idea I’d just drop off the message – like a mailman – and MOVE ON to other stuff (my mission as a Buddhist fits with the King of Shambhala prophecy of the world’s saviour and not with the Christian prophecy of the “Messiah”).
But Christians went overboard when I showed up with that message for them.
Indeed, they more or less grabbed me and dragged me inside for an in-depth soul-searching conversation and scan of my innermost soul. But I got fed up with the spiritual moments with them….as I’ll explain now.
Off the bat indeed, they went BEZERK and harrassed me with questions about who I was and what my beliefs were. It was a mix of fear and awe at me. Very scary.
They were interviewing me for the job of Messiah in fact (and they weren’t liking what they were seeing me as, because to them in their book, Buddhism meant “blasphemous heresy”.).
I got so fed up of them ‘killing the messenger’, that I got mad and said: “Like the message or not I’m the Messenger. I never said I’m the Messiah, it’s you who keep hammering away that I must be the Messiah.” So I said: “Seeing you don’t like me being Buddhist etc… well tough luck for you, I’m the Messiah whether you like it or not because my message is ironclad and I’ll ram it down your stupid ugly Christian throats by force if need be.”
This message which is pretty simple is so hard to grasp, that people in the comments just can’t get their heads around it.
The problem with the Christians was that they were killing the messenger (they’re hateful anti-Buddhist bigots at the core).
The people in the comments here are stuck in Christian-towards-heathen oppositions that block out all rational thinking.
And I didn’t want them to ‘kill the messenger’ and for me to take that sitting down. The backward fundie-style Christians who were killing the message I was bringing, were evidently ugly people who were not worthy of any intellectual exchange.
So that’s how I got suckered into being the Christian Messiah because all the Christians were rejecting me WHOLESALE.
Because of the cluelessly low level of the Christians who were attacking me, I decided to do it my way. I didn’t need those backwards. I just went out and proclaimed the Apocalypse.
But more obstacles lay further along the road.
To retrack the evennts: I went to Wikipedia to edit the pages about the ‘Antichrist’, about ’666′, about the ‘Hideous Beast’, about the ‘Apocalypse’, the ‘Revelation’ etc….
Well, Wikipedia’s people flipped their coils so fast when I got there that it made my head spin.
They banned me from editing and warned me to stop trying to edit that 666 had turned up the day of Obama’s celebration of his victory.
They came to my personal email to warn me they’d monitor what I wrote on Internet and that they’d make a special website to smear and slander me at wikidot.com. But the incredible thing is that the words they told me then, back in 2008 or 2009, they actually went through with. They faithfully monitored my posts throughout Internet (I’d like to request Team Trump to investigate how they did that. Did they put mics and moniroting devices on my computer etc… It looks like this was governement spying. This could be a major investigation like WIkileaks so I’d request Trump to send me his staff to find out what’s going on.)
They set up the said wikidot website and they MAINTAINED IT TILL TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We’re talking about severe mentally challenged people here. They did all this because I’m saying Obama’s the Antichrist. This is a case of the “lady protesting a bit too much”.
Why are they so nervous that I say Obama’s the Antichrist? They’re hiding SOMETHING….
I took that into my stride at first. But I realized that they would have to be overcome by force because they were really riled up in a bad way.
I realized that I had determined foes facing me and during these years I’ve seen now that they were not taking me lightly at all.
I also realized that they were many and that they were in this fight ttill it’s bitter end. They didn’t see this battle as a small one and for me to win was not acceptable for them.
That’s when I realized that this was really the Apocalypse, because such a rallying of forces was only possible by one single person and that was the Antichrist, aka Satan-in-Person.
After a lot of floundering around on Internet, and fighting Obama through the birth issue battle, I found BeforeItsNews which is a haven of peace and calm amidst the raging realm of Internet. Internet does not allow anyone to speak freely and gangs of Nazis troll it continuously and effortlessly.
BIN’s the only place on Internet where ordinary thinking is more or less proscribed. Commonplace, prejudiced thinking is not practised at all BIN. The only thinking that’s accepted there is out-of-the-box, creative, special thinking.
I obviously fit in immediately, seeing I was fleeing the middle-ages thinking of Christians, of Leftist/Communists and backward inbred, homo dorks of all stripes, kinds and form. Obama really draws evil to him. I was searching for any place in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD where I could freely say Obama’s the Antichrist and put forth my proof of that without being targeted by Jihadist-style, medieval people.
Obama Minions were threatening me and hounding me throughout Internet.
To make a long story short, I set up making articles regularly, building myself a fan-base which is impressive now, spreading the news and hounding down Obama seeing the Bible announces his final defeat and the Apocalypse.
Now is the time.
also see here for me…. Mentally ill and criminal trolls have been heckling me for years because they object to the fact I’m the Messiah and nothing they say, can change that truth because I alone reveal that the lottery in Obama’s homestate drew 666 (the Mark of the Beast aka the Number of the Antichrist) the day after his election. Wikipedia says that to troll is a pathological behaviour. Ignore the trolls: they’re crazy.
I’m a person of high spiritual realization (University Tibetan culture/language studies, 8-month meditation retreat, foremost Buddhist Kalachakra authority). My family is a royal family (our relative Count Leo Tolstoy is the highest/ most ancient royal aristocratic lineage in Russia. We have family-relatives who were Papal Chamberlains such as Baron Wilhelm Wedel-Jarlsberg and Count Christopher de Paus) from Norway, and among others my grandmother’s aunt Else Werring was the Royal Norwegian Palace’s “Mistress of the Robes” (the hostess/organizer of the royal palace’s events) for 27 years, until 1985.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has just started blasting Obama with the full force, so now Team Trump, Larry Klaymann and Orly Taitz and us all will have to sue Obama together for stealing our lives by his forged birth certificate. Follow me in revealing the Antichrist Obama and his forged birth certificate which proves his High Treason.
This is a fraud and an imposter. This is not the real King of Shambhala. Do not listen to anything he says, he has hijacked the real King of Shambhala’s account. He is holding Geir Smith in captivity. Do not listen to this man! He’s a fake!