Sen Schumer says Paul Ryan must remove @DevinNunes Immediately of his Intel chairmanship....

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Chuck Schumer Verified account @SenSchumer
14h14 hours ago

.@SpeakerRyan must remove Rep. Nunes of his chairmanship immediately.

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Chuck Schumer Verified account @SenSchumer
14h14 hours ago

Read this overview of how @RepDevinNunes & @realDonaldTrump are hell-bent on undermining Special Counsel Mueller & his team of career professionals from getting to the bottom of Putin’s attack on our democracy.

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“The Nunes memo accused the FBI of dishonesty in failing to disclose information about Steele, but in fact the Nunes memo itself was dishonest in failing to disclose what the FBI disclosed,” writes David Kris, a former assistant attorney general for national security, on Lawfare. “Now we can see that the footnote disclosing Steele’s possible bias takes up more than a full page in the applications, so there is literally no way the FISA Court could have missed it.”

The warrant also shows that the government told the judges after officials discovered Steele went to the press with the dossier. (He notified reporters about the dossier after FBI Director James Comey disclosed the discovery of emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop in the Hillary Clinton investigation in October 2016). “According to the FISA applications, Steele complained that Comey’s action could influence the election,” Kris notes. “But when Steele went to the press, it caused FBI to close him out as an informant — facts which are disclosed and cross-referenced in the footnote in bold text.”

Moreover, Page was no longer associated with the Trump campaign by the time the FISA warrant was approved — so this cannot really be considered surveillance on the Trump campaign. And Obama was not involved in authorizing the surveillance.

The Nunes memo also falsely claimed that a Yahoo News article was used to corroborate the dossier, even though Steele had been the source. In fact, the article was cited in a section on “Page’s Denial of Cooperation with the Russian Government.” It was used to lay out an argument against the warrant....................................................




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[vlyons]

1. I'm not holding my breath

for Ryan to do a damn thing.

[Midnight Writer]

2. Yeah, I'm sure Ryan gives a flying fig.

[Raster]

3. Lyin' Ryan* won't take any action his owners do not want him to take...

...and by "owners," I mean the contingent of right-wing billionaires (Kochs, Mercers, etc.) that have been Ryan*s patrons and providers over the years. Lyin' Ryan* is about to walk away from Congress by playing his "Get Out of Congress FREE" card, passing GO and collecting his lobbyist creds, which will allow Lyin' Ryan* to enjoy the rest of his life in "comfortable" fashion. He'll also say he'll be doing the standard "spend more time with the family" course of action, which, in his case, will probably be somewhat true.

[Le Gaucher]

4. What!!! Is Schumer crazy?

Why would Ryan want to risk his next gig by doing that?

He will quietly and diligently continue serving his masters while masquerading as a VSP ( very serious person)

[Achilleaze]

5. repubes have shown zero honesty & integrity so far in russiagate

apparently they just don't have it in them