WaPo IDs Third WH Staffer Who Helped Intel Reports Get To Nunes

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., speaks as CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, National Counterterrorism Center Direc... House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., speaks as CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, National Counterterrorism Center Director Nicholas Rasmussen, NSA Deputy Director Richard Ledgett, and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart appear at a House Intelligence Committee hearing on world wide threats on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) MORE LESS
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A third White House official, John Eisenberg, handled the reports that House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes (R-CA) cited in claiming that the U.S. intelligence community had incidentally collected information on President Donald Trump’s transition team, the Washington Post reported late Thursday.

The New York Times reported earlier on Thursday that two officials at the White House, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, and Michael Ellis, a lawyer in the White House Counsel’s office, helped provide Nunes with the intelligence.

The Washington Post confirmed that Cohen-Watnick and Ellis were involved, and reported that Cohen was the one who gathered the material and then brought it to Eisenberg, a top lawyer at the National Security Council.

NBC News approached both Ellis and Eisenberg on Thursday evening about allegations that they helped provide Nunes with the classified reports.

When asked if he helped give Nunes intelligence, Ellis told NBC, “I’m not talking about anything.”

Eisenberg told NBC News, “I have nothing to say.”

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  1. Congratulations to the whistleblowers.
    Next level: show that McMaster outed the finks. I double-dare Bannon to do that;)

  2. When asked if he helped give Nunes intelligence, Ellis told NBC, “I’m not talking about anything.”

    If Nunes was given intelligence, he’s sure not displaying it. He’s as stupid as ever.

  3. Will the last one left please turn out the lights on her/his way out?

    If you’ve managed to locate the light switches by now, that is.

  4. Avatar for sanni sanni says:

    Devin Nunes = Dunce. He thought they could launder information. Then acted like the kid who stole cookies from the cookie jar. Criminal Conduct - now that’s something to put on your resume. Double duncey move - voluntarily dove (back into) the chaos vortex that is now the White House. It is if he stuck his neck out just to offer it supine to be driven over by a truck.

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