{"id":20521,"date":"2017-03-22T22:18:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T22:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20521"},"modified":"2017-03-22T22:18:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T22:18:53","slug":"intelligence-panel-chair-channels-trump-with-disclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20521","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence panel chair channels Trump with disclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/devin-nunes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20522\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/devin-nunes-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/devin-nunes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/devin-nunes-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/devin-nunes-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well now &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What in the world is going on here? The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Republican Devin Nunes says someone surveilled Donald J. Trump&#8217;s e-mail during the time between the election and when he became president of the United States, which seems at first blush to give a tiny sliver of justification for what the president has alleged about that bogus wiretap assertion.<\/p>\n<p>Not so fast, according to the Intelligence panel&#8217;s top-ranking Democrat, Adam Schiff, who says Nunes didn&#8217;t follow anything close to proper protocol by making that announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Schiff has doubts about what Chairman Nunes has suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff said the information Nunes reportedly has should have been shared with other committee members before he went public with it. Schiff said the committee hasn&#8217;t seen anything.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/325298-schiff-i-have-grave-concerns-over-nunes-surveillance-claims\">This makes me wonder: <\/a>Is the chairman channeling Donald Trump, suggesting something out loud without any proof of what he&#8217;s saying?<\/p>\n<p>Nunes isn&#8217;t saying, to be fair, that what he has discovered gives any credence to the bogus notion that former President Obama ordered a wiretap on Trump&#8217;s campaign offices in Trump Tower. Schiff, though, is angry with the chairman for blithely introducing this information without briefing other committee members.<\/p>\n<p>He calls it a &#8220;profound irregularity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I just hope it doesn&#8217;t become a profound <em>cover-up<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well now &#8230; What in the world is going on here? The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Republican Devin Nunes says someone surveilled Donald J. Trump&#8217;s e-mail during the time between the election and when he became president of the United States, which seems at first blush to give a tiny sliver of justification &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20521\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Intelligence panel chair channels Trump with disclosure<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[7014,540,7020,1424,2180,6974],"class_list":["post-20521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-adam-schiff","tag-barack-obama","tag-devin-nunes","tag-donald-trump","tag-house-intelligence-committee","tag-wiretap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20523,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20521\/revisions\/20523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}