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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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From: Wharf Rat4/4/2017 10:13:45 PM
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Okay, I Think That's Confirmed
Talking Points Memo
by Josh Marshall

Yesterday evening I pointed out that a little discussed sentence in Eli Lake's 'un-masking' story was key to understanding what actually happened in this 'un-masking' mystery.|

With a bit of informed speculation I suggested that what likely happened is that Mike Flynn protege Ezra Cohen-Watnick was freelancing and started his own 'review' of surveillance intercepts of the Trump transition, took his findings to the White House Counsel's office only to get told to stop since lawyers would have seen the dangerous (to the White House) business he was up to. Shut down by the Counsel's office, he decided to do an end-run around his bosses and go to Devin Nunes. This story out from the AP seems to confirm this is pretty much exactly what happened.

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