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The Call Was Coming From Inside the White House

A new report says that Devin Nunes’s bombshell claim of spying on the Trump team came from the Trump administration itself.
Source: Joshua Roberts / Reuters

Updated on March 30 at 2:44 p.m.

For more than a week, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes has provided the hottest topic for speculation in Washington: Where did he receive mysterious reports that suggested intelligence surveillance of Trump transition team officials?

Now, there appears to be an answer, courtesy of The New York Times: a pair of officials in the Trump White House. The paper reports:

Several current American officials identified the White House officials as Ezra Cohen-Watnick,

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