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pnwmom

(108,959 posts)
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 06:40 PM Mar 2017

Louise Mensch does it again: 3 days before the NYTimes, she reported that Michael Ellis

was likely the source of Nunes's intelligence info.

She's British, a former conservative MP, is connected with Fox and is a never-Trumper.

She was also the first person to report, in October, on the existence of the FISA warrant on communications between two banks and unnamed "US persons." Her report was confirmed by the BBC and the Guardian before the first US outlet did so (McClatchy.)

And she has been saying for months that James Comey was investigating the DT campaign and the Russians.

The NYTimes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/devin-nunes-intelligence-reports.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

That does not appear to be the case. 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 was previously counsel to Mr. Nunes’s committee. Though neither has been accused of breaking any laws, they do appear to have sought to use intelligence to advance the political goals of the Trump administration.

LOUISE MENSCH:

https://patribotics.blog/2017/03/27/did-nunes-leak-fisa-warrant-info-via-white-house-lawyer-michael-ellis/

Following our exclusive report that Devin Nunes leaked information about transition team member, White House staffer and named subject of a failed FISA court application, Boris Epshteyn, I can exclusively report that sources with links to Congress state that staffers working on the Russia investigations believe that lawyers connected to the White House are illegally sharing information with Nunes – and illegally pressing him to leak it.

While sources are not yet definite as to which lawyer or lawyers they suspect of repeatedly breaking the law on leaks and obstruction of justice, several have named Michael Ellis, of the White House General Counsel’s office for National Security, as one they suspect.

Mr. Ellis previous job was the General Counsel for the House Intelligence Committee, working for Mr. Nunes directly. Sources indicate that Nunes recommended Ellis for the White House national security post.

Yesterday it was reported that Nunes’ friend Mr. Ellis, described as his “close aide”, only started working for the White House this month, when leaks started.

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Louise Mensch does it again: 3 days before the NYTimes, she reported that Michael Ellis (Original Post) pnwmom Mar 2017 OP
Yes indeed she did, mom!! eom Leghorn21 Mar 2017 #1
FYI, she thinks @roguePOTUSstaff is disinfo. Qutzupalotl Mar 2017 #2
I think she's right. Blue_Roses Mar 2017 #9
Is Murdoch cutting the cord with the Donald? Wellstone ruled Mar 2017 #3
She says she has intelligence contacts who trust her because of how she reported on pnwmom Mar 2017 #6
Again she is a Brit, Wellstone ruled Mar 2017 #7
LM is putting it all together! yallerdawg Mar 2017 #4
I think LM has sources in MI6 and GCHQ. roamer65 Mar 2017 #5
Yep. Nostrodamus in a skirt. She has total credibility now. TrollBuster9090 Mar 2017 #8

Qutzupalotl

(14,289 posts)
2. FYI, she thinks @roguePOTUSstaff is disinfo.
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 06:55 PM
Mar 2017

I'm not sure either way, but Louise has been on the money lately, so...

Blue_Roses

(12,894 posts)
9. I think she's right.
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 07:17 PM
Mar 2017

I thought that was decided here on DU a while back. So much going on just hard to keep up.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Is Murdoch cutting the cord with the Donald?
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 06:55 PM
Mar 2017

This person works for one of his Rags.

One thing for sure is,she sure has a contact that is iron clad. Forgot something,if you want to know what is going on inside any Government Office or Company,you ask the Janitorial Staff or the People in the Mail Room.

pnwmom

(108,959 posts)
6. She says she has intelligence contacts who trust her because of how she reported on
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 07:02 PM
Mar 2017

the Snowden episode.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
4. LM is putting it all together!
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 06:57 PM
Mar 2017

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"This is a three-headed operation," said one former official, setting out the case, based on the intelligence: Firstly, hackers steal damaging emails from senior Democrats. Secondly, the stories based on this hacked information appear on Twitter and Facebook, posted by thousands of automated "bots", then on Russia's English-language outlets, RT and Sputnik, then right-wing US "news" sites such as Infowars and Breitbart, then Fox and the mainstream media. Thirdly, Russia downloads the online voter rolls.

The voter rolls are said to fit into this because of "microtargeting". Using email, Facebook and Twitter, political advertising can be tailored very precisely: individual messaging for individual voters.

"You are stealing the stuff and pushing it back into the US body politic," said the former official, "you know where to target that stuff when you're pushing it back."

This would take co-operation with the Trump campaign, it is claimed.

https://twitter.com/louisemensch

TrollBuster9090

(5,953 posts)
8. Yep. Nostrodamus in a skirt. She has total credibility now.
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 07:06 PM
Mar 2017

No point in having these stupid Dog and Pony show hearings. Just ask her what happened.

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