Fox News: Senior Obama Intelligence Official Unmasked Trump Associates
Fox News correspondent Adam Housley reported Friday that
a well-known and “very senior” former official in the intelligence community, not associated with the FBI,
directed the unmasking of private Americans working for or with President Donald Trump’s presidential transition team.
“Unmasking is not unprecedented, but unmasking for political purposes … specifically of Trump transition team members … is highly suspect and questionable,” an intelligence source told Fox News. “Opposition by some in the intelligence agencies who were very connected to the Obama and Clinton teams was strong. After Trump was elected, they decided they were going to ruin his presidency by picking them off one by one.”
Housley said his sources inside the intelligence community reached out to him
The Housley report is that Thursday’s narrative was not true–and that Cohen-Watnick and Ellis were not sources at all; rather the two men came to the aid of Nunes, who had other sources but needed to use a Sensitive Compartmented Intelligence Facility (SCIF) that was not associated with the whistleblowers’ own agency.
The sources told Fox News that surveillance of the Trump campaign began before Trump became the Republican presidential nominee July 19, and the surveillance had nothing to do with Russia, Housley said.