Steve Bannon.

[Dill]

(04-06-2017, 05:22 AM)hollodero Wrote: But never mind, that Nunes thing, I need that one explained. Here's what I gathered: He heads a committee investigating Trump associates, drives somewhere one night, gets a call, changes cars, rushes to the White house to see intelligence handed to him by White House aides, then runs back to wherever, gives a press conference, rushes back to the White House to brief Trump on the documents the Trump staffers gave to him, gives another press conference, all while not consulting his committee, then cancels a Yates hearing for a Comey hearing that then gets cancelled, cancelled every meeting ever since. I've seen strange stuff, but that doesn't make any sense. Not even if I would assume conspiracies, that is. 
Any possible explanation, no matter how wild, to make some sense out of this?

Here is a hypothesis--the point of getting the material from the White House at night, and then making a big show of bringing it to the White House the next day as if something were found in another investigation (perhaps by the FBI) and from another site that "the president ought to know about," then the appearance is created of outside confirmation of Trump's crazy tweet accusation.

The meetings are cancelled thereafter so that the next news cycle is not dominated by intel people describing incidental surveillance of a half dozen Trump advisors/appointees.  It is dominated by this big question and apparent "independent" confirmation of Trump's tweet.

This totally worked inside the bubble, as Rush and Hannity were all over Nunes "revelation" and resistance of the Obama deep state and its efforts to make Trump look bad.  People called in ranting about fake news and repeating Trump's talking points about his own leakers being the real story not any fake Russian hacking of the DNC.  It is still Obama and his hangers on trying to preserve the establishment and the lamestream press lying about it all to throw us off the criminal leakers. Liberal treason as rush describes it, while Trump is "keeping promises" and undoing the regulatory state.

Outside the bubble, of course, this is another executive/PR disaster. In one sense it is an international issue since US allies look on with their jaws dropping in wonder at an administration crippling its own credibility and intel capabilities.  Leader of the free world? On the positive side, it has apparently restricted Bannon's power and uprooted the Cohen-Watnick weed from McMaster's staff. The adults, for the moment, gain more power on the NSC. I predict this may be temporary though, as informed competence conflicts with Trump's uniformed impulsiveness.