The New York Times reports Ezra Cohen-Watnick and Michael Ellis are two White House officials who played a role in helping House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) obtain intelligence reports that Nunes said signaled Trump transition officials had been inadvertently swept up in surveillance operations.
Cohen-Watnick is the senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, and Ellis, who worked as general counsel on Nunes’ House Intelligence Committee, is a lawyer working at the White House Counsel’s Office on national security issues.
Earlier this month, Nunes claimed President Donald Trump and members of his transition team were inadvertently included in routine surveillance of suspected foreign spies. Nunes then briefed the president on the matter, raising doubts about Nunes’ ability to lead an impartial probe into Trump’s ties to Russia during the 2016 election.
CNN reported Monday that Nunes met with a source on the White House grounds in order to view the secret documents.
On Tuesday, Nunes vowed to “never” reveal where he got his information, even to other member s of the House Intelligence Committee. Nunes’ spokesman said the chairman “will not confirm or deny speculation about his source’s identity, and he will not respond to speculation from anonymous sources.”
Read more at the New York Times.
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