Three White House Officials Gave Nunes Intel Reports
New York Times and Washington Post reports helps prove that Trump administration is interfering in the Russia Investigation
Update: The Washington Post reported Thursday that at least three senior White House officials were involved in giving House Intel Chair Devin Nunes intelligence files that Nunes then used to claim that Trump associates were incidentally survived.
The three senior White House officials include the top lawyer for the National Security Council. According to the Washington Post, “The third White House official involved was identified as Michael Ellis, a lawyer who previously worked with Nunes on the House Intelligence Committee but joined the Trump administration as an attorney who reports to Eisenberg.”
The revelation that senior White House officials were involved in finding and providing intelligence information to Nunes who is chairman of the Congressional Committee tasked with overseeing the White House.
At least three senior White House officials, including the top lawyer for the National Security Council, were involved in the handling of intelligence files that were shared with the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and showed that Trump campaign officials were swept up in U.S. surveillance of foreign nationals, according to U.S. officials.
A new report by the New York Times found that two White House officials coordinated with Congressman Devin Nunes and provided him with the intelligence reports that he then used to go “brief” the president with.
The two White House officials provided House Intelligence Committee Chairman with the reports that the later claimed was proof of “incidental” surveillance of Trump associates.
“A pair of White House officials played a role in providing Representative Devin Nunes of California, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that showed President Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies,” The New York Times reported.
Nunes has consistently refused to name his sources for the reports, but the Times reports that “Several current American officials identified the White House officials as Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, and Michael Ellis, a lawyer who works on national security issues at the White House Counsel’s Office and formerly worked on the staff of the House Intelligence Committee.”
Also of importance, Ezra Cohen-Watnick was brought into the White House role by disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
You can read the full New York Times report here.
