“You joined us four weeks ago on this program, at that time you said you wanted to get the electronic communication, from the Department of Justice and the FBI, to understand exactly how the Trump investigation into collusion even began,” said Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo. “You’ve now since seen the electronic communication, yes?”

“That’s correct. It took us a long time to get this, what’s called the ‘electronic communication,’ what that is, it’s the original intelligence, the original reasons that the counterintelligence investigation was started,” replied Representative Nunes. “Now, this is really important to us, because a counterintelligence investigation uses the tools of our intelligence services, that are not supposed to be used against American citizens. So we’ve long wanted to know, ‘what intelligence did you [FBI] have that actually led to this investigation?’”

So what we have now found, after the investigators have reviewed it, is that in fact, there was no intelligence. We have a traditional partnership with what’s called the ‘Five Eyes’ agreement. The ‘Five Eyes’ agreement involves our friends in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada, and of course, us,” Nunes reiterated. “So, longtime intelligence procedures in place, we are not supposed to spy on each other’s citizens, and its worked well, and it continues to work well. We know it’s working well because there was no intelligence that passed through the ‘Five Eyes’ channels to our government, and that’s why we had to see that original communication.”

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