Could leakers face felony charges too? Top Republican demands answers on why FBI bugged a citizen’s calls – and the contents leaked
The chair of the House’s intelligence committee wants to know why Michael Flynn’s calls with the Russian ambassador were recorded in the first place
‘The big problem I see here is that you have an American citizen who had his phone calls recorded,’ GOP Rep. Devin Nunes said
Another Republican congressman: ‘If the American people see this being used in ways’ that are abusive, ‘you will probably see some of the authority curtailed’
The president said Wednesday that malicious leakers inside the NSA and FBI were responsible for a tempest that led to Flynn’s dismissal
‘The real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out by “intelligence” like candy,’ he tweeted
Trump claims the New York Times and Washington Post are getting material ‘illegally given’ to them
By Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent
DailyMail.com
15 February 2017
The chair of the House’s intelligence committee wants to know why Michael Flynn’s calls with the Russian ambassador were recorded in the first place and has demanded that the Federal Bureau of Investigation provide him with a response.
‘I expect for the FBI to tell me what is going on, and they better have a good answer,’ Rep. Devin Nunes told the Washington Post. ‘The big problem I see here is that you have an American citizen who had his phone calls recorded.’
Flynn’s conversations with Sergey Kislyak were reportedly intercepted by the federal agency in routine surveillance on Russian nationals. It is not known whether the FBI was otherwise conducting illegal, surveillance on the American.
Leakers within the agency shared details about the spying with reporters. The information contributed to Flynn’s downfall.
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