Devin Nunes's wiretapping claims came from his former lawyer and a 30-year-old Trump aide - Vox.com
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One of the biggest mysteries in the strange case of Rep. Devin Nunes, the House Intelligence Committee chair whos trying and failing to substantiate President Trumps wiretapping claims, may have just have been solved.
In a bombshell report Thursday, the New York Times named the sources who provided Nunes with classified intelligence reports purportedly validating some of Trumps wiretapping claims and both of them are Trump administration political appointees working directly in the White House complex.
That means Nunes the lawmaker charged with leading an investigation into the administrations unfounded wiretapping allegations used information he received from the Trump White House itself to publicly try to deflect blame from Trump. It also means Nunes was misleading the American public when he said his sources were whistleblowers, and that he went to the White House compound because it was the only secure place to review classified information. (This is not true: Capitol Hill has secure facilities for just this reason.)
Instead, we now know Nuness sources, and theyre far from disinterested parties. They are Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the National Security Councils senior director for intelligence, and Michael Ellis, a White House counsel attorney who, prior to the Trump administration, worked for Nunes. Cohen-Watnick uncovered the raw intelligence, according to the Times, and Ellis briefed Nunes on it directly.
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