So House Intelligence Committee Chair Nunes just got caught on live TV saying he "regrets informing the president" about the the FBI investigation and surveillance into President's transition team before the House Intelligence Committee itself. Calling it a "judgement call". Problem is "Incidental" collection of contact between US citizens and foreign agents are not common and any intelligence report between the Trump transition team and Russian agents would be classified. Instead of bringing whatever information he has to the attention of the intelligence community, Nunes addressed reporters and then headed straight to the White House to inform the target of an ongoing FBI investigation. Nunes just implicated himself of Obstruction of Justice under the US Criminal Code. Hopefully someone of integrity is still around to prosecute this.
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said Thursday that he regrets informing President Trump of surveillance affecting the president’s transition team before he updated his panel.
“It’s a judgement call on my part,” he told reporters when asked why he spoke with Trump and the media before House Intelligence Committee Democrats.
“At the end of the day, sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you don’t,” Nunes added, noting he could not show the panel information that was given to him by a source.
Nunes declined to disclose his source’s identity when asked if it was the White House.
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told CNN Thursday that Nunes had apologized "in a generic way" for his actions.
Nunes said Wednesday that the U.S. intelligence community incidentally collected information on members of Trump’s transition team, ultimately putting it into various intelligence reports.
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