Remember that loco tweet from Donald Trump, about Obama wiretaps?
Later this tweet and subsequent tweets were exposed as another HUGE Trump lie, which he was coordinating with Devin Nunes.
www.cnn.com/…
After a review of the same intelligence reports brought to light by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, both Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides have so far found no evidence that Obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal, multiple sources in both parties tell CNN.
Their private assessment contradicts President Donald Trump's allegations that former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice broke the law by requesting the "unmasking" of US individuals' identities. Trump had claimed the matter was a "massive story."
And now this little nugget from Ryan Lizza’s piece about the Donald Trump and Devin Nunes fake surveillance scandal. The White House was scouring through intelligence reports to find something, anything to justify Trump’s "crazy tweet”.
www.newyorker.com/…
The intelligence source told me that he knows, “from talking to people in the intelligence community,” that “the White House said, ‘We are going to mobilize to find something to justify the President’s tweet that he was being surveilled.’ They put out an all-points bulletin”—a call to sift through intelligence reports—“and said, ‘We need to find something that justifies the President’s crazy tweet about surveillance at Trump Tower.’ And I’m telling you there is no way you get that from those transcripts, which are about as plain vanilla as can be.” (The White House did not respond to a request for comment.)
And intelligence officials confirmed: "There’s absolutely nothing there"
I spoke to two intelligence sources, one who read the entire binder of intercepts and one who was briefed on their contents. “There’s absolutely nothing there,” one source said. The Trump names remain masked in the documents, and Rice would not have been able to know in all cases that she was asking the N.S.A. to unmask the names of Trump officials.
I have to disagree, there is something here.
We have a liar and very unstable person in the White House. We now know the White House agrees with that assessment, but is still very willing to sift through intelligence reports to find anything to justify and enable Trump’s lies.