DEVIN NUNES VINDICATED -- AGAIN. Think back to March 2017. Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, then chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, announced he had learned about the "unmasking" of Trump transition officials by the outgoing Obama administration. Most people didn't even know what unmasking was; it referred to the disclosure of names of Americans whose communications were incidentally picked up in U.S. intelligence surveillance. In this case, one American unmasked was Gen. Michael Flynn, the incoming Trump national security adviser, whose conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak were intercepted by U.S. spies. The unmasking led to enormous grief for Gen. Flynn and the country.
Nunes' announcement was quickly dismissed as a "stunt," a "charade," and a "fiasco." "The unmasking stunt was completely fabricated," said former Obama Justice Department official Matthew Miller. "Devin Nunes is dangerous," pronounced the New York Times' Frank Bruni. "Nunes' Fake Scandal" declared the New Yorker. Similar sentiments echoed across the hallowed halls of the Washington Post, the Times, CNN, and MSNBC.
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