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[ltr]Ezra Cohen-Watnick: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know[/ltr]
[ltr]A week after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes told President Donald Trump that he had seen intelligence showing that his transition team was “incidentally” monitored, it was reported that Nunes’ sources for the intelligence were three White House staffers. One of them was Ezra Cohen-Watnick, a senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council. Over four months after the strange sequence of events with Nunes, National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster finally pushed Cohen-Watnick out of the NSC.[/ltr]
[ltr]An official told CNN on August 2 that Cohen-Watcnick was reassigned to another job in the Trump administration.[/ltr]
[ltr]McMaster “appreciates the good work” of Cohen-Watnick, but “has determined that, at this time, a different set of experiences is best-suited to carrying that work forward,” the official told CNN. “Gen. McMaster is confident that Ezra will make many further significant contributions to national security in another position in the administration.”[/ltr]
[ltr]The New York Times reported that the 30-year-old Cohen-Watnick and Michael Ellis, a lawyer at the White House Cousel’s office who focuses on national security issues, were identified by current American officials as the sources for Nunes’ intelligence. The White House did not comment on the Times’ report.[/ltr]
[ltr]The Times has reported that Cohen-Watnick first found the information while searching confidential reports after Trump accused President Barack Obama of wiretapping him before the 2016 election. Cohen-Watnick then notified Ellis, who then spoke with Nunes.[/ltr]
[ltr]Shortly after the Times’ report, The Washington Post reported that there was a third person involved. According to their sources, Cohen-Watnick first gave the information he found to John Eisenberg, the top lawyer for the National Security Council.[/ltr]
[ltr]Before joining the Trump administration, Cohen-Watnick worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Laura Rozen of Al-Monitor tweeted the below photo of Cohen-Watnick:[/ltr]
[ltr]Here’s what you need to know about Cohen-Watnick and the situation.[/ltr]
[ltr]1. Nunes Visited The White House Grounds Before March 22 to Meet His ‘Whistleblower-Style’ Source[/ltr]
[ltr]On March 22, Nunes, who was a member of Trump’s transition team, surprised many in Washington by telling the press that he had new information that pertained to the investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election. He then met with the President, then held a second press conference.[/ltr]
[ltr]Nunes said that the information he saw showed that that members of the Trump Transition team showed up in intelligence reports. He said the surveillance looked legal because it was picked up during “incidental collection.” That’s what happens when the intelligence community monitors a foreign target, who happens to speak with an American. Nunes even said that Trump himself possibly showed up in the intelligence, but said that the communication was not related to the Russia investigations.[/ltr]
[ltr]The California Congressman said that many of the American citizens were identified in the reports. Usually, these names would be “masked.”[/ltr]
[ltr]Even though Nunes stressed that nothing he saw proved Trump’s claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped him before the election, Trump still said he felt “somewhat” vindicated by Nunes’ intelligence.[/ltr]
[ltr]Since Nunes failed to bring this intelligence to Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee before he went to the president, Democrats have questioned Nunes’ ability to conduct a truly independent investigation. Those calls grew louder after it was reported that Nunes went to the White House grounds on March 21.[/ltr]
[ltr]According to ABC News, Nunes went to a secure location on the White House grounds to view the documents because they still weren’t available to Congress. But he still could have used a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) at another location to view the information without it being compromised.[/ltr]
[ltr]Before it was known that Nunes visited the White House grounds, Press Secretary Sean Spicer said on Friday, “I don’t know where he got them from,” referring to Nunes’ documents.[/ltr]
[ltr]While Nunes refused to say the name of his source publicly, House Speaker Paul Ryan told CBS News that Nunes described his source as a “whistleblower-type person.”[/ltr]
[ltr]“He had told me that — like, a whistleblower-type person had given him some information that was new that spoke to the last administration and part of this investigation,” Ryan, who also told CBS News that he hasn’t seen the documents from Nunes, said. “He briefs me about it, didn’t know the content of it, only knew the nature of it and that he was going to brief others.”[/ltr]
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Subject: Q RELATED JUL 22 Ezra Cohen-Watnick 
Mon Jul 22, 2019 5:25 pm
