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2017-04-21 Home Front: Politix

Interesting chap, that Ezra Cohen-Watnick

[Newsweek] The well-manicured Washington, D.C., suburb of Chevy Chase, Maryland, is probably what President Donald Trump’s supporters imagine when they whoop about draining the capital’s "swamp." A high-income enclave of Volvo-driving, wine-sipping, NPR-listening lawyers, lobbyists, journalists and government bureaucrats, Chevy Chase is such a liberal stronghold that local Republicans said last year they were afraid to plant Trump campaign posters on their lawns.

All of which makes the town an unlikely launch pad for Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the suddenly prominent White House National Security Council official at the center of a bizarre backdoor maneuver to provide House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes with top-secret documents on government surveillance. Cohen-Watnick reportedly retrieved the documents from a classified CIA terminal in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House and gave them to Nunes, a California Republican who had been a member of Trump’s transition team. They were intended to prove that former President Barack Obama was "wire tapping" Trump during the 2016 campaign.

The documents did no such thing, other members of the panel concluded after studying them. What they actually showed is that U.S. intelligence agencies did have Trump’s associates on their radar--but only because they were tracking Russian agents.

More on ECW found here from the Guardian.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-21 08:17|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 From the Guardian article:

“They hate him. They absolutely despise him,” a former senior intelligence official said of the CIA’s view of Cohen-Watnick.

Yes, and I'm reasonably confident we now know WHY! Nothing from GCHQ yet on this fellow, but we're still waiting.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-21 08:32|| 2017-04-21 08:32|| Front Page Top

#2 But wait! There's more.

Schoenblog.com - News drives genealogy, and vice-versa

Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-21 08:42|| 2017-04-21 08:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Genealogy also tends to be the sanitized version of personal history. Seldom does one read in obits that the person was the worst SOB in his small town.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-04-21 09:00|| 2017-04-21 09:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Seldom does one read in obits that the person was the worst SOB in his small town.
Posted by: JohnQC

I read your comment to Ms. Besoeker John. She recommended I not assume anything.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-21 09:03|| 2017-04-21 09:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Nothing really sinister meant by the comment. I've read some of the entries for my relatives and often wondered if they were talking about the same person I knew.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-04-21 11:17|| 2017-04-21 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Ezra-Cohen-Watnick rose very quickly for a 30-year old. There is quite a bit of intrigue surrounding him. One has to wonder if the media is driving this, the Democrats or people close to Trump or all of them. Cohen-Watnick seems to be wading in deep swamp water.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-04-21 12:06|| 2017-04-21 12:06|| Front Page Top

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