Pelosi: Intel chairman 'a stooge of the president'
Source: The Hill
BY MIKE LILLIS - 03/23/17 12:23 PM EDT
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) hammered the Republican chairman of the Intelligence Committee on Thursday, saying Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is simply a “stooge” for President Trump who can’t be trusted to lead an unbiased investigation into ties between Russia and the White House.
Pelosi said Nunes “acted outside the circle of respect” for his responsibility as Intelligence chairman when he went Wednesday to the press and the president with new information surrounding the panel’s probe into Russian hacking of the 2016 election and possible surveillance of Trump's team — without telling the other members of the committee.
“By being a stooge of the president of the United States,” Pelosi charged, “he has demonstrated very clearly that there is no way there can be an impartial investigation under his leadership on that committee.”
Pelosi, who has called for months for an outside independent investigation of the Russian hacking and influence campaign, said Nunes’s actions only accentuate the need for Congress to create such a panel. “Chairman Nunes is deeply compromised, and he cannot possibly lead an honest investigation,” she charged.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/325449-pelosi-intel-chairman-a-stooge-of-the-president
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Independent means
- not investigating your own actions (like Nunes is)
- not investigating the guy you believe in (like Comey is)
Independent is somebody not connected to either side, and no fucks to give.
How about Barack Obama? He'd make a great independent prosecutor.
