The NY Times is reporting that Nunes sources are indeed White House officials and has named them in a new article today:
A pair of White House officials played a role in providing Representative Devin Nunes of California, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that showed President Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies.
Several current American officials identified the White House officials as Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, and Michael Ellis, a lawyer who works on national security issues at the White House Counsel’s Office and formerly worked on the staff of the House Intelligence Committee.
Obviously Nunes has been tight lipped about his sources, refusing to even discuss identifying them in any way to the press.
However Eli Lake did say that Nunes told him that his source was not a WH staffer, but rather Intelligence officials:
In an interview Monday, Nunes told me that he ended up meeting his source on the White House grounds because it was the most convenient secure location with a computer connected to the system that included the reports, which are only distributed within the executive branch. “We don’t have networked access to these kinds of reports in Congress,” Nunes said. He added that his source was not a White House staffer and was an intelligence official.
Whether or not these two were Nunes actual sources remains to be seen. I seriously doubt Nunes will go on the record to confirm or deny it, so I’m not sure if we’ll ever truly know.
So take this for what it’s worth to you.
Also consider this an open thread.