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Nunes says he won't meet with the Justice Department until he gets documents on source
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/20/politics/devin-nunes-justice-department-meeting-documents/index.html
By Maegan Vazquez, CNN
Updated 2:19 PM ET, Sun May 20, 2018
Washington (CNN)House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said Sunday that he won't meet with the Justice Department until he is handed documents related to a confidential FBI source who spoke with Trump campaign aides in 2016 about Russian interference in the election.
Nunes also pointed to Friday reports that the FBI's confidential source spoke with at least two advisers to President Donald Trump's presidential campaign about its possible ties to Russia as a reason for his position, accusing someone within the department of leaking the information after he and South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy didn't take Justice officials up on their most recent offer to answer the lawmakers' questions in a briefing.
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To quell rising tensions, officials briefed Nunes and South Carolina Republican Rep. Gowdy a couple of weeks ago in a meeting the lawmakers later called "productive." The department then offered to brief Nunes and Gowdy on Friday with the understanding that certain questions remained outstanding from a previous briefing, but the invitation went unanswered, CNN has reported.
"Now if you look at what happened on Friday night, probably the mother of all leaks, of all time, to two major newspapers, that came out Friday night. Now, had Mr. Gowdy and I went to that meeting, you can bet they would have tried to pin that on us," Nunes, R-California, told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures."
"We had what I thought was a productive meeting, and then, after that meeting, they've done nothing but leak and leak and leak," he continued. "Now, we don't know exactly who it is over at the Department of Justice or the FBI. I'm not pinning any blame on people. But we're not going to go to another meeting where we don't get documents and then the meeting leaks out.".......................
Nunes told Fox News that he and Gowdy refused to do the briefing after being told they would not get the documents they are seeking.
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@DevinNunes a Paranoid little ****ant......... (Original Post)
riversedge
May 2018
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Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)1. That quote makes him sound like a criminal.
Reeks of desperation.
Initech
(100,029 posts)2. The sooner these criminals are locked up the better!
WhiteTara
(29,692 posts)3. When Robert Mueller comes calling, I'm sure he'll be at the meeting
crying and whinging and lying and blaming others.
janx
(24,128 posts)4. Who would elect a guy who talks like this?
"Now, had Mr. Gowdy and I went to that meeting,"