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The Corner: The one and only
\n<\/em>By Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review<\/em><\/p>\n

When the feeding frenzy abates and moves on to the next target, among the flotsam and jetsam we may learn two things from the Nunes affair: One, intelligence-committee chairmen in the past have routinely gone over to various executive-branch locations, such as in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, to confirm information by evaluating secured raw data, and have also communicated with and met with NSC staffers to assist them to do that.<\/p>\n

And two, such a near routine trip was prompted by an effort to verify apparently new information \u2014 rather than leaking interpretations of partial excerpts to favorite journalists \u2014 given that it may well not sync with the former Obama administration\/media nexus (one that for five months has selectively leaked classified information, in an unlawful manner to selective journalists, to ensure a narrative that may well not be based on evidence or at least all the evidence).<\/p>\n

The only departure from routine seems to be that Nunes told the press what he had done and would do, which most in Washington do not, at least on the conservative side if they don\u2019t want a headache.<\/p>\n

As the hysteria subsides (cf. also today\u2019s articles by Kimberley Strassel at the WSJ and Richard Pollock at the Daily Caller), the crux again remains not the messengers, but the message:<\/p>\n

Did or did not federal intelligence agencies improperly pick up and record communications of American citizens \u2014 particularly those on the Trump election, transition, and presidential teams \u2014 while supposedly monitoring foreign officials, and then selectively leak such data to journalists on the presumption that their ensuing publications would achieve a desired narrative and political result? If so that is unethical and illegal and might be the real collusion\/tampering worry. And it is a scary thing.<\/p>\n

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The Corner: The one and only By Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review When the feeding frenzy abates and moves on to the next target, among the flotsam and jetsam we may learn two things from the Nunes affair: One, intelligence-committee chairmen in the past have routinely gone over to various executive-branch locations, such as in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1092,145,31,285,187,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2C4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10275,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/mr-nunes-went-to-washington\/","url_meta":{"origin":10048,"position":0},"title":"Mr. Nunes Went to Washington","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"By Victor Davis Hanson National Review Devin Nunes is subpoenaing former Obama administration officials who may have played a role in inappropriate monitoring of the Trump transition team. 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