Devil Nunes went to London seeking dirt on Christopher Steele and was rebuffed

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Earlier this month, as all eyes were on the courtroom dramas unfolding in Virginia—where President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman was just convicted on bank- and tax-fraud charges—and in New York—where the president’s longtime personal lawyer pleaded guilty to campaign-finance violations and implicated Trump in a crime—the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee was in London, seeking out new information about the former British intelligence officer and Trump-Russia dossier author Christopher Steele.


According to two people familiar with his trip across the pond who requested anonymity to discuss the chairman’s travels, Devin Nunes, a California Republican, was investigating, among other things, Steele’s own service record and whether British authorities had known about his repeated contact with a U.S. Justice Department official named Bruce Ohr. To that end, Nunes requested meetings with the heads of three different British agencies—MI5, MI6, and the Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. (Steele was an MI6 agent until a decade ago, and GCHQ, the United Kingdom’s equivalent of the National Security Agency, was the first foreign-intelligence agency to pick up contacts between Trump associates and Russian agents in 2015, according to The Guardian.)

A U.K. security official, speaking on background, said “it is normal for U.K. intelligence agencies to have meetings with the chairman and members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.” But those meetings did not pan out—Nunes came away meeting only with the U.K.’s deputy national-security adviser, Madeleine Alessandri. The people familiar with his trip told me that officials at MI6, MI5, and GCHQ were wary of entertaining Nunes out of fear that he was “trying to stir up a controversy.” Spokespeople for Alessandri and Nunes did not return requests for comment, and neither did the press offices for MI5 and MI6. GCHQ declined to comment.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/devin-nuness-curious-trip-to-london/568699/

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

1. That won't stop Devin from lying about what he "found"

After all, it's his word against theirs, and I doubt there's a record of his meetings.

[mitch96]

5. "lying about what he "found"

Yes, and about the British coverup of the information. Or the google search that PROVES Google is trying to lower tRumps hits by pushing Steele's hits...... yup... it's coming..
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[gratuitous]

2. Officials were wary of entertaining Nunes

Why is it that foreign intelligence officials can spot Nunes coming to stir up controversy from an ocean away, but the American media can't quite figure out that he's a grandstanding boob, long on partisanship and short on statesmanship?

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Not The Sharpest Knife In The Drawer Either

Perhaps i should have inferred that from your use of the word "boob".

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Excellent Question

but I have no answer, only speculation.

[H2O Man]

7. Right.

It's also important to consider that they don't trust him for reasons beyond his causing potential trouble. Nunes was part of the Trump transition. And consider the financial ties his "family business" has.

[HipChick]

6. Im glad they don't trust that nut case....

[Scurrilous]

8. K&R