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Two White House officials helped provide intelligence reports to House Intelligence Committee Chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., according to New York Times report Thursday. The Times identified the officials as Ezra Cohen-Watnick, senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council and Michael Ellis, who works on national security issues at the White House Counselrsquo office, and who used to be a House Intelligence Committee staffer.Thirty-year-old Cohen-Watnick has already been the subject of some controversy within the White House. He was, according to the Washington Post, brought in by former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and he was moved out of his job by Flynnrsquo successor, H.R. McMaster. After appealing to Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner, the Post reported, Cohen-Watnick was reinstated. Senate committee stanley cup becher takes spotlight in Russia investigation stanley cup 08:03 The Washington Post is reporting that NSC Legal Adviser John Eisenberg was also involved in the plan to brief Nunes. A U.S. official tells CBS Newsrsquo; Margaret Brennan that it makes complete sense that Eisenberg, the NSCrsquo top legal adviser, would stanley cup have signed off on Ellisrsquo; plan -- Ellis is Eisenbergrsquo deputy. Ellis is on the NSC, but hersquo also part of White House Counselrsquo offic Ucqk CBS News 2024 presidential election analysis: How many voters are persuadable
Updated 3:45 p.m. ET CBS News As President Obama and the Democrats gear up for their convention in Charlotte, N.C., this week, Democrats unpacked their thoughts on last week s Republican convention. Senior campaign aide Stephanie Cutter said she gathered that Republicans think lying is a virtue. It was a week of personal attacks, empty platitudes, and the one thing you were left with is they really think lying is a virtue, Cutter said on Face the Nation Sunday. When asked by host Bob Schieffer if she thinks Republic stanley quencher ans are liars, she walked the statement back, slightly. I heard a lot of things that weren t true last week, she said, pointing to vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan s assertion that President Obama s policies closed a Janesville, Wis., plant. The plant actually closed in 2008, before Mr. Obama took office. Cutter also mentione vaso stanley d Ryan s claims that $716 billion were funneled out of Medicare by President Obama to pay for the Affordable Care Act, disadvantaging seniors, when the law cuts payments to providers, not beneficiaries. Fact checking Paul stanley cup Ryan s convention speech The President is using dirty political tactics because the truth about his abysmal record hurts, Romney spokesperson Ryan Williams said.Perhaps playing into the Republicans argument about this election, Maryland Gov. Martin O Malley said Americans may not be better off than they were four years ago, but added that s not the question of thi |
