Typically, the American is a suspect in a crime, is in danger or has to be named to explain the context of the report.
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Nunes also learned from Comey that the FBI was investigating potential ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
Guests leaving the event said the Russian Federation investigation came up at least once during Nunes’ talk, which focused mostly on water, a key issue in the farming region in California, the nation’s leading agricultural state.
The sources told Fox News that surveillance of the Trump campaign began before Trump became the Republican presidential nominee July 19, and the surveillance had nothing to do with Russia, Housley said.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) traveled to the White House Friday to view documents President Trump has said partially vindicate his claim that his predecessor ordered surveillance of him during the campaign.
There is compelling evidence to support that – based on recent reports – his serving as the national security adviser might have jeopardized White House decisions about our national security.
Trump, who claimed that President Obama had his “wires tapped” at Trump Tower, said he felt “somewhat” vindicated after speaking to Nunes.
On Friday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer continued to deflect questions regarding Chairman Nunes’ handling of classified information, but did defend his visit to the White House to view classified documents as “routine and proper”.
I can appreciate the fact that “Sean Spicer says unusual things that don’t appear to be true” isn’t exactly breaking news – the Republican’s reputation has struggled in recent months for a reason – but this has been an especially unflattering week for the press secretary, and the week’s not quite finished.
But, she emphasized in a Twitter post Wednesday, she had no information of her own, and was merely in contact with her former colleagues at the White House.
Nunes has faced criticism over the course of the investigation for his relationship with the Trump administration.
Former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says that the deep budget cuts to foreign aid and diplomacy proposed by Trump to fund increased military spending would make the United States and the world less safe.
“Despite the push back, Nunes confirmed Tuesday morning that he was “moving forward” with the Russia-Trump investigation”.
The CIA also perceived Cohen-Watnick as a threat because he shared Flynn’s distrust of the national intelligence community.
Stephen Slick, who served in the CIA and NSC for three decades, said intelligence agencies go to “extraordinary lengths” to safeguard the privacy of Americans. “After Trump was elected, they decided they were going to ruin his presidency by picking them off one by one”.
What the press should be asking, Spicer said, is why the intelligence community was using resources to surveil Trump’s team, to unmask USA officials, and to spread classified information.
Spicer also remarked on the investigation into Trump’s potential ties to Russian officials.
A congressional aide said Schiff did not receive the White House letter until after Spicer announced it from the White House briefing room. Cohen-Watnick and Ellis nearly certainly showed Nunes classified information he wasn’t even supposed to see, suggesting all three “engaged in precisely the behavior that the president describes as the true national security threat posed by the Russian Federation debate”.
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Schiff noted, for example, that the House committee still has not received information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation on whether Flynn had declared in his background check application that he had acted as a paid agent for Turkey past year, a declaration he belatedly made to the Justice Department March 8, more than three weeks after he’d resigned as Trump’s national security adviser.
