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Nunes: FBI Director Was "Spying on the President" - The Post & Email thepostemail.com/2019/04/11/nun…
Nunes said he and a former U.S. attorney and current congressman, John Ratcliffe, are looking forward to speaking with Barr at the “appropriate” time about the referrals, which may number as many as two dozen when Nunes concludes what he said has been his work the last 2.5 years.
Nunes said that “late 2015/early 2016” was when “spying” on the Trump campaign began, leading to the FISA warrants on Page. “They considered that ‘legal’ spying,” Nunes said of those conducting the surveillance.
“Then you have the ultimate spying with Comey spying on the president, taking notes, illegally leaking those notes of classified information…why? so they can appoint a special counsel to spy on an acting president again. So there’s a lot of spying and a lot of leaking…”
Comey admitted as much in his June 8, 2017 testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee when he stated, “And my judgment was, I needed to get that out into the public square. And so I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter.
Didn’t do it myself, for a variety of reasons. But I asked him to, because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. And so I asked a close friend of mine to do it.”
Nunes added, “We still have transcripts from our investigation that are sitting over at the DNI (Director of National Intelligence) that still have not been declassified…” He said that releasing those will augment the transcripts already released as to what occurred in 2016.
