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Source: The Guardian
Attempt by two congressional staffers to contact former MI6 officer highlights fight for control over House intelligence committees investigation
Julian Borger in Washington
Tuesday 8 August 2017 01.48 BST
Two US congressional staffers who travelled to London in July and tried to contact former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, were sent by a longstanding aide to Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House intelligence committee and a close ally of the White House.
The trip has brought back to the surface a continuing struggle for control of the committees investigation into Moscows role in the 2016 US election. The reliability of a dossier compiled by Steele, containing explosive allegations of extensive secret collusion between Trump and the Kremlin, is a key part of that investigation.
The two staffers turned up unannounced at Steeles lawyers offices while the former MI6 officer was in the building, according to a report by Politico on Friday. But the committees leading Democrat, Adam Schiff, said on Sunday neither he nor his Republican counterpart had been informed about the staffers London trip.
A congressional official insisted, however, that the staffers were in London on official committee business. He said they had been told to make contact with Steeles lawyers, rather than Steele himself.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/07/donald-trump-russia-dossier-christopher-steele-devin-nunes
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)Only tension is between Nunes brain and his shifty eyes.
Nunes always has this look on his face like a teenager who just
got caught by his mom jerking off and has to come out of his
room to say hi to the whole family at Thanksgiving.
haveahart
(905 posts)kentuck
(111,076 posts)It is highly doubtful that Nunes sent these people to London without the Speaker's knowledge.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Out to try and snuff the truth about the republican TreasonWeasels.
Heinous, disgusting republican-russian betrayal of the USA.
Cosmocat
(14,561 posts)Manage to travel to England and just happen to show up at Steele's lawyers office just when he happened to be meeting with him?
Seriously, think about that.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Cosmocat
(14,561 posts)What are the odds?
Lightning strikish.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)EOS
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)is considered to be "intelligent"? Compared to the dumb asses in the gop, could that be possible? Take a look at their "leader" the orange tweeter. What kind of people would protect a person as childish as tRump?
riversedge
(70,182 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Roman Abramovich's personal jet landed in Newark at the same time republican Comrade Casino headed to The Freaking Tax-Free republican Goat Farm (aka Bedminster) for his luxurious, taxpayer-funded gourmet, super-special, two-scoops & a hunk-of-beautiful-cake vacation.
"Russian oligarchs plane flies into New Jersey on same day Donald Trump arrives for golf vacation"
Roman Abramovich (aka Mr. A) according to wiki "was the first person to originally recommend to Yeltsin that KGB operative Vladimir Putin be his successor as the Russian president..."
http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/russian-oligarch-new-jersey-donald-trump-vacation/4182/
crazylikafox
(2,754 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)I'd guess that Christopher Steele has Devin Nunes, et all figured out. Just an opinion.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)doing his damnedest to coverup the betrayal of America by the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief and his republican Cabal of Colluding Comrades.