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 presidents 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 Mondays 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 Trumps allies in the Russia probe.
According to sources familiar with the exchange, Nunes made a few comments that didnt answer the question before finally responding, Im 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 memos public release.
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,096 posts)Answer is it does not matter because 45% of this country WANTS putin to take over.
Maraya1969
(22,441 posts)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)
Demtexan
(1,588 posts)Nunes is in deep.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,096 posts)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)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)Because this sounds a lot like obstruction of justice.
bluestarone
(16,720 posts)do something to the fact that nUNES recused himself from Russia shit
Maraya1969
(22,441 posts)Gothmog
(143,998 posts)Moreover, the antics of House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) should be seen in the context of Trumps 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 Muellers 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 Muellers 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 Comeys 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
Maraya1969
(22,441 posts)orangecrush
(19,236 posts)he will have to answer under oath.
C_U_L8R
(44,889 posts)Actually I want to see him in irons... but some righteous interrogation would be quite enjoyable. That little weasel would squirm.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)dalton99a
(81,062 posts)kimbutgar
(20,871 posts)I hope its 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.