White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters that he doesn’t know who authorized House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes’ secure meeting with an intelligence source on White House grounds last week, a day before briefing President Trump and reporters that members of the Trump transition team were swept up in legal surveillance.
Nunes, a Republican congressman from California overseeing the House investigation into Russia’s interference in the U.S. Presidential election, met with a source who is not a White House staffer on the grounds to review classified information in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), CBS News confirmed.
Spicer was pressed by CBS News on whether or not the White House cooperated with Nunes in order to arrange for a SCIF on the complex, where he could securely view the information provided by the source. Spicer first dodged the question and then replied that he would look into “whether or not that is an accurate statement” that the White House has to coordinate the use of their SCIFs.
Spicer notably did not specify which SCIF Nunes used — both the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the National Security Council have separate SCIFs at the White House.
The suggestion of possible coordination between Nunes and the White House, given the venue of Nunes’ meeting, has prompted questions about Nunes’ ability to oversee what is supposed to be an impartial and independent investigation into Russia’s conduct. Mr. Trump told reporters that he felt “somewhat” vindicated by Nunes’ briefing last week.
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Sean Spicer doesn’t know how Devin Nunes got on White House grounds but it's not that hard for him to figure it out https://t.co/r2kYdtWJE8
— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) March 27, 2017
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