House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Devin Nunes announced Wednesday that members of President Donald Trump’s transition team, including the President-elect, were “incidentally” surveilled by the intelligence community, additional names of the transition team were “unmasked,” and that the information was not obtained in relation to Russia.
Wednesday’s revelations by Rep. Nunes confirm earlier media reports of surveillance of Trump aides and associates, with the added twist that the revelations were unrelated to investigations of Russian ties to the Trump campaign.
Wednesday, the House Intelligence Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) said the U.S. intelligence community “incidentally collected” information on President Donald Trump transition team. Nunes said, “So first I recently confirmed that on numerous occasions, the intelligence community incidentally collected information
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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer squared off Wednesday against members of the White House Press Corps who questioned him about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s statement that it had not found evidence of any government surveillance of Trump Tower “[b]ased on the information available to us.”
The leaders of the House intelligence committee are giving the NSA, FBI, and the CIA until Friday to reveal how many Americans’ identities were unmasked during surveillance activities in the last six months, which they believe happened to President Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
The chairman of the House Permanent Committee on Intelligence told reporters at the Capitol Monday he has yet to see evidence of contacts between President Donald Trump’s campaign and individuals in the Russian government or part of its extensive network of affiliated persons.
Monday, House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) discussed his committee’s investigation into Russian efforts to influence last November’s presidential election. A part of the allegations of those efforts was possible coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is facing a backlash from some of his left-wing constituents after questioning the legality of surveillance that led to President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn’s resignation on Monday.
President Barack Obama has been very slow to notice and react to Russia’s aggressive hacking operations, says Rep. Devin Nunes (R.-Calif.), the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
The report contradicts the popular image of Snowden as a Robin Hood stealing government secrets and sharing them with the uninformed for the greater good.
A Capitol Hill source familiar with the request by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for a briefing on Russian cyber-attacks told Breitbart News the Central Intelligence Agency refused the invitation to update members.
The incoming Senate Minority Leader told hosts of TV’s CBS This Morning that he is pleased Sen. Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) supports calls for a congressional investigation into possible Russian tampering in the 2016 presidential election, but he does not want it to become political, like what happened with Benghazi.
Rep. Devin Nunes sent a letter to the two men who lead the Pentagon and the nation’s coordinated intelligence agencies, asking them to explain why media reports claim administration officials are trying to oust Admiral Michael Rogers from NSA.
The change to the rule, proposed by Nunes, would add another step to the process of removing a speaker.
Monday at the State Department daily briefing, State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner was asked about the future of Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy, who according to just released FBI interview notes, asked the FBI to change the
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made two quick stops in California on Tuesday for fundraisers, speaking on issues of particular importance to Californians ahead of a Wednesday meeting in Mexico with the President of Mexico, and Trump’s much-anticipated immigration speech in Arizona.
Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, declined to comment when Breitbart News asked whether he approved of President Obama’s National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying on Congress.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Richard Burr from North Carolina, Republican chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told Breitbart News that his panel will investigate whether President Obama’s National Security Agency (NSA) broke the law by eavesdropping on private conversations between American lawmakers and Israel.
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) said, “We face the highest threat level we have ever faced in this country today,” including the days since Sept. 11, 2001. “There is a couple
In California, where drought conditions are severe, regulations that prevent water from reaching desperate farmers prompted thousands of farmers to rally Wednesday in protest. At the same time the rally was held, farmers were in Washington to testify at a
On her Thursday radio show, conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham castigated Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) for his support of any immigration reform measure that would expand the labor pool and depress middle class wages instead of allowing the market
On Friday, former acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller, testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee, said that America’s tax system is “voluntary.” During the hearing, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) said in passing that the U.S. tax code is a
*UPDATED* Congressman Nunes’ office released the following statement: “Rep. Nunes was not referring to wiretapping of the cloakroom, but to the seizure of the AP’s phone records from the House Press Gallery in the Capitol. He was explaining that those records
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