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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 07:52 PM Jan 2018

NON-DENIAL. Devin Nunes Won't Say if He Worked With White House on Anti-FBI Memo

Source: The Daily Beast




The House intel committee GOP leader refused to answer behind closed doors if he coordinated with the president’s team on his report blasting Rosenstein, Comey, and McCabe.

BETSY WOODRUFF
SPENCER ACKERMAN

01.30.18 6:17 PM ET

The Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee refused to answer when a colleague asked him if he had coordinated his incendiary surveillance memo with the White House, The Daily Beast has learned.

During Monday’s contentious closed-door committee meeting, Rep. Mike Quigley, a Democrat, asked Nunes point-blank if his staffers had been talking with the White House as they compiled a four-page memo alleging FBI and Justice Department abuses over surveillance of President Trump’s allies in the Russia probe.

According to sources familiar with the exchange, Nunes made a few comments that didn’t answer the question before finally responding, “I’m not answering.” Spokespeople for Nunes and for the White House did not immediately respond.

Now that the committee Republicans voted to release the memo, it has been reportedly delivered to the White House. Under Congressional rules, Trump has four more days to decide if he will assent to the memo’s public release.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/devin-nunes-wont-say-if-he-worked-with-white-house-on-anti-fbi-memo?ref=home

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Eliot Rosewater

(31,096 posts)
1. How much does Nunes owe Putin and what tapes does putin have on him?
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 07:54 PM
Jan 2018

Answer is it does not matter because 45% of this country WANTS putin to take over.

Maraya1969

(22,441 posts)
10. I think that number is much lower. #45 approval around 37% and of those I think
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 09:52 PM
Jan 2018

A good portion could be talked sense to if it need be.

(Then again I'm wondering if the time for talking sense to them is past. idk)

Eliot Rosewater

(31,096 posts)
14. If they were democrats this would be simple, both parties would indict and imprison
Wed Jan 31, 2018, 12:15 PM
Jan 2018

every last one of them.

What they will do is make what they are doing legal, simply by doing it and not allowing law enforcement to act.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
16. Turd's approval never got over 41% (that was Inauguration Day).
Wed Jan 31, 2018, 12:56 PM
Jan 2018

He's solidly 10 points lower now.

And those Despicables who would actually celebrate a Putin takeover, if they were able to comprehend the reality of it, probably even lower.

 

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)
2. Seems like Mr. Mueller needs to talk with him.
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 07:54 PM
Jan 2018

Because this sounds a lot like obstruction of justice.

bluestarone

(16,720 posts)
3. i don't get it. i know nUNES got away with the memo thing BUT Ryan needs to
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 08:00 PM
Jan 2018

do something to the fact that nUNES recused himself from Russia shit

Gothmog

(143,998 posts)
4. Republicans risk becoming accomplices in obstruction of justice
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 08:03 PM
Jan 2018

Lock them up https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/01/26/republicans-risk-becoming-accomplices-in-obstruction-of-justice/?utm_term=.969c26c70804

One can imagine that leaking this information was another way to head off errant action by the president. Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress have shown none of the courage Comey, Wray, McGahn, etc., demonstrated. With the exception of chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Republicans have demonstrated little inclination to dig deeply into the scandal or to restrain Trump. Two bipartisan bills seeking to hinder Trump from firing Mueller remain dormant. Democrats should insist these get an up-or-down vote.

Moreover, the antics of House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) should be seen in the context of Trump’s multiple efforts to decapitate the FBI and the Russia investigation. Nunes is plowing the way — cooking up conspiracy theories and propounding baseless allegations against Mueller and the FBI — to predispose the public to accept Mueller’s firing. He is encouraging, almost baiting, Trump to fire Mueller. He is also assisting Trump by tainting the jury (the American people), if you will, to accept or even applaud Mueller’s firing. From the unmasking stunt to his latest “memo,” he has tried to distract from the Russian threat and discredit law enforcement.....

Nunes is in every sense cooperating — colluding, you could say — with the ongoing attempts to obstruct justice. It is indefensible.

Nevertheless, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) gives him free rein to keep this up. Neither of them have shown anything near the fidelity to the rule of law that Comey, McGahn, Wray and even Sessions (caveat: his lack of candor under oath to the Senate and participation in Comey’s firing may also implicate him) have demonstrated. Neither Nunes nor Ryan seems to grasp that setting up barriers to constrain Trump is the right and constitutional thing to do. It also amounts to protecting Trump from Trump. You almost wonder if Ryan is giving Trump enough rope to hang himself

C_U_L8R

(44,889 posts)
6. I want to see Nunes under oath
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 08:20 PM
Jan 2018

Actually I want to see him in irons... but some righteous interrogation would be quite enjoyable. That little weasel would squirm.

kimbutgar

(20,871 posts)
8. The Russians must have some good blackmail stuff on him
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 09:32 PM
Jan 2018

I hope it’s revealed in time for the 2018 election. Nunes needs to be punished and beaten soundly in November. The name Nunes should mean traitor and disgrace.

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