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NUNES: “It took us a long time to actually get this what’s called the electronic communication, as we know it now for your viewers. What that is is it the original intelligence, the original reasons that the counterintelligence investigation was started. Now this is really important to us because the counterintelligence investigation uses the tools of our intelligence services that are not supposed to be used on American citizens, so we’ve long wanted to know, 'Well, what intelligence did you have that actually led to this investigation?' So what we found now after the investigators have reviewed it is that in fact there was no intelligence. So we have a traditional partnership with what’s called the Five Eyes agreement. Five Eyes agreement involves our friends in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada and of course us. So long time process and procedures in place where we move intelligence across, we are not supposed to spy on each other’s citizens, and its worked well and it continues to work well. And we know it’s working well because there was no intelligence that passed from Five Eyes through the Five Eyes channels to our government, and that’s why we had to see that original communication."