{"id":70332,"date":"2017-04-02T06:09:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T10:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70332"},"modified":"2017-04-02T06:09:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T10:09:20","slug":"trump-surveilled-before-nomination-agencies-with-info-blocked-nunes-for-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70332","title":{"rendered":"Trump Surveilled Before Nomination, Agencies with Info Blocked Nunes for Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=5380606763001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<header class=\"articleheader\">\n<p class=\"byline\"><span class=\"by-author\"><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> MICHELLE MOONS<br \/>\nBreitbart.com<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>A Friday breaking Fox News report on surveillance of President Trump\u2019s team that began before he became the Republican presidential nominee claimed\u00a0a very senior intelligence official was responsible\u2014as well as for the unmasking of the names of private U.S. citizens.<\/h2>\n<p>The report cited sources which also indicated that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) knew of the existence of the information in January, but one or more intelligence agencies blocked him, and there were only two locations where he could view the information that he called \u201cvery troubling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the <i>New York Times<\/i> began <a class=\" x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/30\/us\/politics\/devin-nunes-intelligence-reports.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporting<\/a> what they claimed were the identities of two White House officials who were\u00a0the sources of the information disclosed to Nunes.<\/p>\n<p>Nunes met with sources on White House grounds on the <a class=\" x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4713943\/devin-nunes-white-house-source-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">day before<\/a> he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/03\/22\/devin-nunes-trump-and-transition-team-members-surveilled-not-in-connection-to-russia\/\">announced<\/a> to reporters striking news that he had seen new and disturbing information indicating intelligence officials under the Obama administration \u201cunmasked\u201d the names of Trump team members who were incidentally surveilled.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday President Donald Trump tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FoxNews<\/a> just reporting big news. Source: &quot;Official behind unmasking is high up. Known Intel official is responsible. Some unmasked&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/848216035153121285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">..not associated with Russia. Trump team spied on before he was nominated.&quot; If this is true, does not get much bigger. Would be sad for U.S.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/848219027659010051?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The Friday Fox News report cited \u201ca number of sources\u201d with claims that not only were the two White House officials not the sources of the information shared with Nunes, but that Nunes knew of the information in January, and that the agencies where the information came from had blocked Nunes from gaining access to it. Further, the report cited officials within the agencies who\u00a0said they were frustrated with the spreading of names for political purposes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur sources, who have direct knowledge of what took place, were upset because those two individuals, they say, had nothing to do with the outing of this information,\u201d Fox reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve learned that the surveillance that led to the unmasking of what started way before President Trump was even the GOP nominee,\u201d reported Adam Housley. \u201cThe person who did the unmasking, I\u2019m told, is very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world and is not in the FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis led to other surveillance which led to multiple names being unmasked. Again these are private citizens in the United States,\u201d said Housley. \u201cThis had nothing to do with Russia, I\u2019m told, or foreign intelligence of any kind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two named in Thursday\u2019s reports as the sources of the information in those stories were not Nunes sources. \u201cIt was a navigation situation and the reason why they had to navigate, I\u2019m told, is that Nunes learned about this unmasking and who this was, taking place back in January.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took, obviously, a number of weeks to try to figure out a way for him to see this intelligence, because the agencies were stonewalling, we\u2019re told, to allow him and others to see it,\u201d said Housley. \u201cThis is all coming from folks that are in these agencies and frustrated with the politics that is taking place in these agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re told that the main issue here is not only the unmasking of the names, but the spreading of names for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security and everything to do with hurting and embarrassing Trump and his team,\u201d reported Housley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFox also learned that an individual with direct knowledge that after Nunes had been approached by his source, the agencies basically would not allow him in at all,\u201d said Housley.<\/p>\n<p>Nunes and the White House have faced heated questions from the press about\u00a0Nunes\u2019s viewing of the information on White House grounds; however, the Fox report added that there were only two places where Nunes could have viewed the information. One was at the agencies where the information came from, which the reporting notes would have put the source at risk, and the other location was on the 18-acre White House grounds. Housley noted that the Old Executive Office Building is on White House grounds. He also specified where information after hours and where highly sensitive information may be accessed.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/04\/01\/fox-trump-surveilled-before-nomination-agencies-info-blocked-nunes-weeks\/\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/04\/01\/fox-trump-surveilled-before-nomination-agencies-info-blocked-nunes-weeks\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}