House Intel chairman: Trump's personal communications may have been collected

[ducks]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/22/politics/devin-nunes-trump-communications/index.html

[Mitch]

A lot of people are going to have egg on their face if Trump is right about this one :lol

[spurraider21]

Comey shut that shit down on Monday

[Spurminator]

A lot of people are going to have egg on their face if Trump is right about this one :lol

Not sure why. This has always been a lose/lose for Trump. Either he was duped into a false accusation by conspiracy theorists, or there really was reason to investigate him for Russia ties. How is either of those things a victory for Trump?

[TSA]

Comey shut that shit down on Monday

:lol

[Mitch]

Not sure why. This has always been a lose/lose for Trump. Either he was duped into a false accusation by conspiracy theorists, or there really was reason to investigate him for Russia ties. How is either of those things a victory for Trump?

Welp, Nunes said it didn't have anything to do with Russian ties. If he was wiretapped and turned out to be right, people are going to be doing damage control for weeks.

[hater]

:lmao :lol J:lolke T:lolpper :lmao

:lmao W:lollf Blitz:lolr :lmao

:lmao F:lolreed Z:lolkari:lol :lmao

[spurraider21]

:lol
:lol

[Spurminator]

Welp, Nunes said it didn't have anything to do with Russian ties. If he was wiretapped and turned out to be right, people are going to be doing damage control for weeks.

Welp, if there was any reason to wiretap him, that reason is certainly going to be interesting news and I don't think it's the liberals who will need to be doing damage control.

[Mitch]

Welp, if there was any reason to wiretap him, that reason is certainly going to be interesting news and I don't think it's the liberals who will need to be doing damage control.

:lol we'll see, because they've been the only ones doing it.

[Spurminator]

:lol we'll see, because they've been the only ones doing it.

:lol yeah no damage control or spin coming out of the Trump camp at all for the past two months. They've been cool as cucumbers, they have.

[DMX7]

Nunes always has this deer in the headlight confused look on his face. It didn't saying anything of substance that would vindicate Trump and he reiterated that Trump did NOT have his wires tapped.

[TSA]

Welp, if there was any reason to wiretap him, that reason is certainly going to be interesting news and I don't think it's the liberals who will need to be doing damage control.

The reason to have him under surveillance was to get dirt on him and then leak it to the press to help Hillary. They never thought Trump would win and didn't have a plan to cover their tracks as they expected Hillary to waltz in and then back to business as usual. The plan is crumbling and being exposed with each passing day.

[Spurminator]

The reason to have him under surveillance was to get dirt on him and then leak it to the press to help Hillary. They never thought Trump would win and didn't have a plan to cover their tracks as they expected Hillary to waltz in and then back to business as usual. The plan is crumbling and being exposed with each passing day.

:lol they didn't think Trump would win but they still decided to run illegal surveillance on him to help Hillary.

For someone who is so picky about having specific evidence when it suits you, you sure are keen to just make shit up sometimes.

[TSA]

:lol they didn't think Trump would win but they still decided to run illegal surveillance on him to help Hillary.

For someone who is so picky about having specific evidence when it suits you, you sure are keen to just make shit up sometimes.
There are legal loopholes that have already been explained.

[Spurminator]

There are legal loopholes that have already been explained.

Legal or illegal there was no motive to do this unless they had reason to believe illegal activity was happening.

Especially if you don't think they ever thought he would win.

[monosylab1k]

:lol so quick to believe "anonymous sources" when it fits

[TSA]

Legal or illegal there was no motive to do this unless they had reason to believe illegal activity was happening.


No motive? Seriously?

[Spurminator]

No motive? Seriously?

What do you think they were planning to do, leak hidden video footage to the press? Don't you think questions might have come up as to how that footage was obtained? Not even Nunez is suggesting there's some kind of dirt-digging scandal here. You have nothing to validate that theory.

[Mitch]

:lol yeah no damage control or spin coming out of the Trump camp at all for the past two months. They've been cool as cucumbers, they have.

Trump pays taxes, tbh :tu

[monosylab1k]

No motive? Seriously?

Maybe they were looking to sink Trump's campaign with damning video of him advocating sexual assault....oh wait....

After that leaked and none of his supporters gave a shit, there was literally no reason to "watch" him. Nothing he did could sway his fanbase, short of video of him going down on a black cock.

[Spurminator]

Trump pays taxes, tbh :tu

37% approval rating, tbh :tu

[monosylab1k]

37% approval rating, tbh :tu

FAKE NEWS, because the poll on Fox showed it was at 39%, suck on that Trump haters!

[ducks]

Less then 4 percent say they wish they did not vote for trump

[TSA]

What do you think they were planning to do, leak hidden video footage to the press? Don't you think questions might have come up as to how that footage was obtained? Not even Nunez is suggesting there's some kind of dirt-digging scandal here. You have nothing to validate that theory.

When we find out who unmasked the communications and who order them unmasked I might.

[Mitch]

37% approval rating, tbh :tu

2% chance to win the presidency :tu

[Spurminator]

2% chance to win the presidency :tu

trump president not candidate

[Mitch]

trump president not candidate

Poll innaccurate not accurate

[SnakeBoy]

37% approval rating, tbh :tu

47% tbh

Gallup 40
Rasmussen Reports 46
Economist/YouGov 44
Reuters/Ipsos 47
Quinnipiac 37

[baseline bum]

47% tbh

Gallup 40
Rasmussen Reports 46
Economist/YouGov 44
Reuters/Ipsos 47
Quinnipiac 37

Do you approve of Captain Conspiracy Theory?

[SnakeBoy]

Do you approve of Captain Conspiracy Theory?

I don't know what that is but I'll say yes cause it sounds cool.

[baseline bum]

I don't know what that is but I'll say yes cause it sounds cool.

The guy who said Ted Cruz's dad was part of the Kennedy assassination, that he had the most electoral votes since Reagan, that he had the biggest crowd ever at his inauguration, that global warming is a Chinese hoax, that he really won the popular vote except for 5 million illegals who voted Clinton, that his healthcare bill was going to cover everyone and cost them less than Obamacare, that Obama wasn't born in the US, that Mexico was going to pay for a 30 foot wall, that he handpicked the faculty for Trump University? So you approve of Trump?

[SnakeBoy]

The guy who said Ted Cruz's dad was part of the Kennedy assassination, that he had the most electoral votes since Reagan, that he had the biggest crowd ever at his inauguration, that global warming is a Chinese hoax, that he really won the popular vote except for 5 million illegals who voted Clinton, that his healthcare bill was going to cover everyone and cost them less than Obamacare, that Obama wasn't born in the US, that Mexico was going to pay for a 30 foot wall, that he handpicked the faculty for Trump University? So you approve of Trump?

Yeah he's doing a fine job

[Clipper Nation]

Do you approve of Captain Conspiracy Theory?
Captain Conspiracy Theory lost the election to Trump, tbh.

[florige]

47% tbh

Gallup 40
Rasmussen Reports 46
Economist/YouGov 44
Reuters/Ipsos 47
Quinnipiac 37



Yeah those are great looking numbers for a incoming President tbh.

[boutons_deux]

"MAY have been" Nunes :lol

[monosylab1k]

The guy who said Ted Cruz's dad was part of the Kennedy assassination, that he had the most electoral votes since Reagan, that he had the biggest crowd ever at his inauguration, that global warming is a Chinese hoax, that he really won the popular vote except for 5 million illegals who voted Clinton, that his healthcare bill was going to cover everyone and cost them less than Obamacare, that Obama wasn't born in the US, that Mexico was going to pay for a 30 foot wall, that he handpicked the faculty for Trump University? So you approve of Trump?

:lmao don't forgot how he said it was perfectly sunny at his inauguration when it cleary was raining.

[spurraider21]

:lmao don't forgot how he said it was perfectly sunny at his inauguration when it cleary was raining.thousands of muslims cheering on rooftops

[baseline bum]

Yeah he's doing a fine job

What are your thoughts on a dangerous terrorist like Rafeal Cruz?

[baseline bum]

thousands of muslims cheering on rooftops

Vaccines cause autism

[SnakeBoy]

What are your thoughts on a dangerous terrorist like Rafeal Cruz?

I don't think about him at all. Since it is apparently an important topic to you, what are your thoughts about him?

[baseline bum]

I don't think about him at all. Since it is apparently an important topic to you, what are your thoughts about him?

I think he should be in Guantanamo for his work in murdering a sitting president. Why is Trump so soft on terrorism?

[monosylab1k]

Vaccines cause autism

That Scotland loves him.

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2016-06/27/8/campaign_images/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane01/beat-it-bawbag-2-28910-1467032275-3_dblbig.jpg

https://i1.wp.com/campuslately.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/golf.jpg

[ElNono]

A lot of people are going to have egg on their face if Trump is right about this one :lol

:lol unfortunately the "Obama ordered" is the centerpiece of the tinfoil wearers, tbh... probably disappointing news for them...

[SnakeBoy]

I think he should be in Guantanamo for his work in murdering a sitting president. Why is Trump so soft on terrorism?

Do you want this to become part of the DNC platform?

[pgardn]

:lol unfortunately the "Obama ordered" is the centerpiece of the tinfoil wearers, tbh... probably disappointing news for them...

That part is conveniently forgotten.

[baseline bum]

Do you want this to become part of the DNC platform?

No, I want Trump's DOJ to prosecute him since he has damning information on Cruz.

[SnakeBoy]

No, I want Trump's DOJ to prosecute him since he has damning information on Cruz.

Ah okay, focusing on the important stuff.

[baseline bum]

Ah okay, focusing on the important stuff.

Bringing a guy who helped murder a president to justice isn't important?

[tlongII]

:lol unfortunately the "Obama ordered" is the centerpiece of the tinfoil wearers, tbh... probably disappointing news for them...

It is completely irrelevant in the overall scheme of things. Certainly Trump shouldn't have said that, but it is becoming more and more apparent that illegal surveillance was being conducted against the incoming Trump administration. Democrats are used to breaking laws though so I guess it's no big deal... :shrug

[clambake]

obamas response:

rent free

[boutons_deux]

obamas response:

rent free

Opioid epidemic blamed on Obama, Obamacare

Obamacare did not cause the opioid epidemic

This argument has been popping up on social media. But it’s rebuked by the basic concept of time.

There’s just one problem with this theory: the basic concept of time.

Obamacare was signed into law in 2010.

But its major coverage provisions took years to kick in, with Healthcare.gov (http://healthcare.gov/) launching in 2013

and the

Medicaid expansion officially starting in 2014.

But the opioid epidemic was well underway by 2010,

starting in the late 1990s as doctors began prescribing opioids in droves.

In fact, the year after Obamacare passed, opioid painkiller overdoses plateaued, and the rapid rise in heroin deaths began as people moved from painkillers to other opioids.

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/23/15032348/obamacare-opioid-epidemic-cause

[BanditHiro]

Nunes regrets briefing Trump before Intel Panel

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/325404-nunes-regrets-briefing-trump-before-intel-panel

shit completely backfired

[boutons_deux]

Ex-House intel counsel says Rep. Nunes tipping off Trump is 'breakdown in entire oversight process' (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/22/1646189/-Ex-House-Intel-Counsel-says-Rep-Nunes-tipping-off-Trump-is-breakdown-in-entire-oversight-process)


https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/844633257446649857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F20 17%2F3%2F22%2F1646189%2F-Ex-House-Intel-Counsel-says-Rep-Nunes-tipping-off-Trump-is-breakdown-in-entire-oversight-process

JEREMY BASH:

Brian, I served as chief counsel of the house intelligence committee, and I think in 40 years of their existence, since post-watergate with the church and pike committees that emerged from those scandals, I have never heard of a chairman of an oversight committee going to brief the president of the United States about concerns he has about things he's read in intelligence reports.

The job of the committee is to do oversight over the executive branch. Not to bring them into their investigation or tip them off to things they may be looking at.

And I've got to believe that other members of the committee are horrified at what they just witnessed.

This is a chairman who is supposed to be doing an impartial, bipartisan investigation of the president and his inner circle.

Instead, he goes and basically tells the president and his team everything he knows.

It's very concerning, particularly when what he is saying is that the collection was lawful, court ordered by lifetime federal judges against valid foreign intelligence targets, that the reports generated by the nonpartisan, nonpolitical intelligence community were of foreign intelligence value.

And then he goes and tries to make this into a political cover story for the president's tweet storm two Saturdays ago and potentially reveals to the president things about the committee's existing investigation.

This is a true breakdown, Brian, in the entire oversight process.


What’s clear again today is Nunes, a man who was himself a key member of Donald Trump’s “executive committee transition team,”

must recuse himself and a special prosecutor should be appointed immediately.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/22/1646189/-Ex-House-Intel-Counsel-says-Rep-Nunes-tipping-off-Trump-is-breakdown-in-entire-oversight-process?detail=email&link_id=7&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-unanimous-supreme-court-overturns-a-gorsuch-decision-in-the-middle-of-his-confirmation-hearing-2&email_referrer=unanimous-supreme-court-overturns-a-gorsuch-decision-in-the-middle-of-his-confirmation-hearing-2&email_subject=unanimous-supreme-court-overturns-a-gorsuch-decision-in-the-middle-of-his-confirmation-hearing

America (of the Repugs/VRWC/BigCorp oligarchy) is fucked and unfuckable.

[TSA]

Nunes regrets briefing Trump before Intel Panel

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/325404-nunes-regrets-briefing-trump-before-intel-panel

shit completely backfired


“Details about the U.S. persons involved in the incoming administration with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value were widely disseminated in intelligence community reports,” he told reporters.

“I want to be clear — none of this surveillance was related to Russia or the investigation of Russian activities or of the Trump team,” he added, noting he believes the information was collected legally.

Nunes’s remarks on Wednesday added a new wrinkle to Trump’s claims earlier this month that former President Barack Obama “tapped his wires” at Trump Tower in New York City last year.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the House Intelligence Committee’s ranking Democrat, voiced frustration Wednesday over Nunes’s handling of the information.

“If accurate, this information should have been shared with members of the committee, but it has not been,” he said.

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If none of the surveillance was related to Russia or the investigation of Russian activities or of the Trump team why does Schiff feel the committee investigating Russian activities needed to know about it before Trump? It had nothing to do with Russia.

[clambake]

obama wiretapped trump.

trump conspired with russians.

[AaronY]

A lot of people are going to have egg on their face if Trump is right about this one :lol
Astronomers will have egg on their face if the world turns out to be flat too

[DMC]

'round here, egg on the face just means silence on that particular subject from all the "free pile on" crowd. It doesn't mean anyone ever admits anything they said was wrong. Often they were misunderstood.

[Reck]

Nunez is a faggot.

He's clearly running scared now. He cancelled an upcoming hearing that was supposed to go down Tuesday.

845293157055107072

Like the truth won't come out anyway. This guy is clearly compromised and needs to remove himself immediately.