The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, California Rep. Devin Nunes, confirmed on Wednesday President Donald Trump’s claims that his presidential transition team was spied on by former President Barack Obama’s administration.
The information they gathered was then widely spread throughout the Obama administration, Nunes said.
If evidence is found that Obama had it done intentionally to assist failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign, which many critics suspect, this could be huge.
In fact, it could lead to Obama being arrested.
According to Nunes, the U.S. intelligence community collected information on members of the Trump transition team incidentally. The information was then “widely disseminated” in intelligence reports.
“I recently confirmed that on numerous occasions, the intelligence community collected information on U.S. individuals involved in the Trump transition,” Nunes told reporters. “Details about U.S. persons involved in the incoming administration, with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value, were widely disseminated in intelligence community reports.”
“This information was legally brought to me by sources who thought we should know it,” Nunes said. There were “dozens of reports, but no mention of Russia.”
The revelation comes just after a bombshell committee hearing Tuesday where FBI Director James Comey told Congress there was “no information” that Trump had been wiretapped.
According to Nunes, the wiretap “legally collected foreign intelligence under FISA incidental collection.”
But Nunes also said he was “alarmed” that the information “ended up in reporting channels and was widely disseminated” — and critics are calling for a full investigation into how this happened.
“I’m not gonna get into legal definitions here, but clearly I have a concern” that Obama was spying on Trump, Nunes said.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, California Rep. Devin Nunes, confirmed on Wednesday President Donald Trump’s claims that his presidential transition team was spied on by former President Barack Obama’s administration.
The information they gathered was then widely spread throughout the Obama administration, Nunes said.
If evidence is found that Obama had it done intentionally to assist failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign, which many critics suspect, this could be huge.
In fact, it could lead to Obama being arrested.
According to Nunes, the U.S. intelligence community collected information on members of the Trump transition team incidentally. The information was then “widely disseminated” in intelligence reports.
“I recently confirmed that on numerous occasions, the intelligence community collected information on U.S. individuals involved in the Trump transition,” Nunes told reporters. “Details about U.S. persons involved in the incoming administration, with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value, were widely disseminated in intelligence community reports.”
“This information was legally brought to me by sources who thought we should know it,” Nunes said. There were “dozens of reports, but no mention of Russia.”
The revelation comes just after a bombshell committee hearing Tuesday where FBI Director James Comey told Congress there was “no information” that Trump had been wiretapped.
According to Nunes, the wiretap “legally collected foreign intelligence under FISA incidental collection.”
But Nunes also said he was “alarmed” that the information “ended up in reporting channels and was widely disseminated” — and critics are calling for a full investigation into how this happened.
“I’m not gonna get into legal definitions here, but clearly I have a concern” that Obama was spying on Trump, Nunes said.
I personally believe that activities that occurred under the Obama Administration, if all known, would greatly exceed those that even Richard Nixon and his Administration did and that led to Nixon's resignation. Furthermore I believe that most every Administration has it's bad actors and are responsible for some devious things if not illegal but given that I doubt very seriously that Obama or anyone in his Administration will ever pay a price or serve any time for anything. I think the most egregious things were potentially those that Hillary and the Clintons were involved in but while those, I believe, were done for the enrichment of the Clintons, I think the more dangerous things were the weaponization of some of the Executive branch departments to use against it's political enemies. Things like using the IRS and Justice department to exact a price against the political enemies. There are plenty of guilty people subordinate to Obama that did some dirty stuff worthy of jail. I also believe that there are those in all administrations that do such things but the real question is just how much of what occurred was done so with the knowledge of the President?
Sadly I doubt we will never know and most political parties will protect their own. As for Administrations and what's occurred in the last 80 or so years I fully believe that Jimmy Carter and his Administration was the most moral and decent but also one of, if not the, most inefficient and worst Administration our nation has experienced. As for the most devious I would believe that honor belongs Bill Clinton but the most devious and evil Administration encompassing President and those surrounding him would most likely be the Nixon administration.
I believe that even Regan had his shortcomings and potentially either Regan or some in his Administration or George Bush's (VP) people may have been responsible for pushing NASA to launch Challenger over the objections of many of those who were worried about the cold temperatures thus leading to the Challenger disaster.
In short I believe there is a lot of stuff that goes on in every Administration, Republican and/or Democrat that if everyone knew about it would shock a lot of folks but some of the things were also responsible for good outcomes even though the letter of the law was violated. I think that some of the best and most effective Administrations were Kennedy's, Regan's Clintons (with the help of a Republican Congress), and the current administration, Donald Trumps. I think overall, given the recent administrations and their accomplishments that the three most important and successful Administrations will be seen to be Kennedy's, Reagan's and Trumps and the least successful and worst to be Jimmy Carter's and Obama's 8 years. I also believe that if everything was actually known that the worst and most evil administrations guilty of the most offenses would be between Nixon's and Obamas. But that's just my own opinion mind you.
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