Nunes doesn't deny leaking private text messages to Fox News, but blames press for reporting it

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Source: think progress




“I’m not sure if this coverage could possibly get more absurd.”

Mar 1, 2018, 4:52 pm

On Thursday, the New York Times reported that House Intelligence Committee chair Devin Nunes (R-CA) leaked Senate Intelligence Committee ranking member Mark Warner’s (D-VA) confidential text messages to Fox News as part of his ongoing effort to discredit the ongoing investigations of the Trump campaign for possible collusion with Russia.

“The Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee were behind the leak of private text messages between the Senate panel’s top Democrat and a Russian-connected lawyer, according to two congressional officials briefed on the matter,” the Times reports. “Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the committee’s Republican chairman, and Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat, were so perturbed by the leak that they demanded a rare meeting with Speaker Paul D. Ryan last month to inform him of their findings. They used the meeting with Mr. Ryan to raise broader concerns about the direction of the House Intelligence Committee under its chairman, Representative Devin Nunes of California, the officials said.”



In a statement provided to the Times, Nunes’ camp didn’t deny leaking the texts to Fox News. Instead, Nunes spokesman Jack Langer attacked the Times for writing about it in the first place.


“The New York Times, a prominent purveyor of leaks, is highlighting anonymous sources leaking information that accuses Republicans of leaking information,” he said. “I’m not sure if this coverage could possibly get more absurd.”...............................




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Ryan is far in into Trumps stinking sewer!!


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[Angry Dragon]

1. Shaking my head

[yuiyoshida]

2. Are these people stupid or what?

[Merlot]

12. Not stupid. Conniving, mean, liars. But not stupid.

But they're ok with being called that if it gives them cover to further their agenda.

[jberryhill]

3. Good Lord that Nunes has the IQ of a gnat

[riversedge]

4. Nunes has learned from Trump that creating Chaos works.

[BigmanPigman]

5. What's up with Nunes over the past 48 hours?

Yesterday he was writing a letter to Sessions and now this crap. Is he creating more distractions?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142002033

[Arkansas Granny]

6. This reminds me of the time when my daughter ran in to tell me

that her brother was going to tell on her.

Nunes acts like a man who is being blackmailed. Someone has something on him, to be sure.

[riversedge]

7. Numes has acted strange since the very first time he went running to the WH--after stopping

to start with Paul Ryan last year!! I really can not understand him at all. Blackmail?? Perhaps. I think he wants a spot on Fox news also. (I do not have cable fox--actually I dropped it last year). I only see twitter gif's of him --and he sure has been mouthing off on fox a lot lately.

[Nitram]

9. LOL! Thanks for the laugh Granny!

[Nitram]

8. Now that's chutzpah!!!

Leaking private information to a news organization and then blaming a news organization for reporting it. This whole thing is just a very very bad sit com. The Bizarro World version of West Wing.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Lock him up!!!

[bluestarone]

11. SO he did it! SO what are they going to do about it?

NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Firestorm49]

13. WHAT AN ASSHOLE