Eli Lake is a pretty reasonable and reliable journalist and in this interview with Fox News he says there are definitely questions that need to be answered by Susan Rice, but the charges against Nunes are “absurd.”
Watch below:
I think he has a good point. The attack on Syria might have pushed this off the front headlines, but there are still questions that need to be answered.
BUT, I have to point out that Lake said Nunes lied to him about where he got the info:
Last week, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Devin Nunes, announced dozens of intelligence reports that inappropriately included details on President Donald Trump’s transition. This week, he told me that his source for that information was an intelligence official, not a White House staffer.
It turns out, he misled me. The New York Times reported Thursday that Nunes had two sources, and both worked for the White House. This distinction is important because it raises questions about the independence of the congressional investigation Nunes is leading, which may lead to officials at the White House.
And later,
The chairman told me Thursday that elements of the Times story were inaccurate. But he acknowledged: “I did use the White House to help to confirm what I already knew from other sources.” This is a body blow for Nunes, who presented his findings last week as if they were surprising to the White House. He briefed Trump, after holding a press conference on Capitol Hill. And as he was leaving the White House, he made sure to address the press again.
But this was a show. The sources named by the Times work for the president. They are political appointees. It strains credulity to think that Trump would need Nunes to tell him about intelligence reports discovered by people who work in the White House.
Some are saying the NYT is misleading people, while others say Nunes is… so we still don’t know for sure just what the heck is going on here.