Nunes bombshell disclosures may have involved a considerable amount of ass covering. The same day he made them, Judicial Watch and its intrepid leader Larry Klayman released a letter to Nunes detailing far more shocking allegations:
"As I have written in this Newsmax blog and elsewhere particularly of late, my client, former NSA and CIA contractor Dennis Montgomery, holds the keys to disproving the false claims of those representatives and senators on the House and Senate intelligence committees, reportedly as well as FBI Director James Comey, that there is no evidence that the president and his men were wiretapped.
Montgomery left the NSA and CIA with 47 hard drives and over 600 million pages of information, much of which is classified, and sought to come forward legally as a whistleblower to appropriate government entities, including congressional intelligence committees, to expose that the spy agencies were engaged for years in systematic illegal surveillance on prominent Americans, including the chief justice of the Supreme Court, other justices, 156 judges, prominent businessmen such as Donald Trump, and even yours truly. Working side by side with Obama's former Director of National Intelligence (DIA), James Clapper, and Obama's former Director of the CIA, John Brennan, Montgomery witnessed “up close and personal” this “Orwellian Big Brother” intrusion on privacy, likely for potential coercion, blackmail or other nefarious purposes.
But when Montgomery came forward as a whistleblower to congressional intelligence committees and various other congressmen and senators, including Senator Charles Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who, like Comey, once had a reputation for integrity, he was “blown off;” no one wanted to even hear what he had to say. The reason, I suspect, is that Montgomery’s allegations were either too hot to handle, or the congressional intelligence and judiciary committees already knew that this unconstitutional surveillance was being undertaken. Moreover, given the power of the NSA, CIA, and DNI, for congressional committee heads to take action to legitimately and seriously investigate and if necessary recommend prosecution of officials like Clapper and Brennan could, given the way Washington works, result in the spy agencies disclosing and leaking (as occurred recently with General Michael Flynn), the details of their mass surveillance, ruining the careers if not personal lives of any politician who would take them on."
http://www.newsmax.com/LarryKlayman...ontgomery-whitsleblower/2017/03/19/id/779551/
There is more but that is the gist of it. See also
http://ibankcoin.com/zeropointnow/2...ent-surveillance-two-years-ago-fbi-sat-on-it/
Klayman and Judicial Watch are not some fringe players. Their lawsuits have yielded more information on Obama era scandals than anything the ineffectual republicucks in congress produced, eg on the IRS Tea Party scandal.
This is clearly an issue that the media and congress desperately want to ignore, as it would be a huge win for Trump and a mortal blow to the Deep State. Congress, and Nunes in particular as Chairman of the Intell Committee, would face awkward questions about how they allowed this to happen. Nunes' disclosure of intercepts and illegal unmasking and leaking can be seen as a frantic attempt to get ahead of the story and divert attention from a far bigger scandal.