Devin Nunes Has Top Secret Clearance Revoked

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54. We DO know that Nunes is currently being investigated by the House Ethics

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Committee.

"If there had been a complaint and an investigation of Nunes by the Republican majority house we'd know."

Yes, we would know and we do know. He IS being investigated, even though the House has a Republican majority. In fact, even though the Ethics Committee comprises equal numbers of R's and Dems, it elected to start "the Nunes investigation on its own," rather than wait for the Office of Congressional Ethics to consider it first.

This is the most recent release by the House Ethics Committee:

http://ethics.house.gov/media-center

"The Committee is aware of public allegations that Representative Devin Nunes may have made unauthorized disclosures of classified information, in violation of House Rules, law, regulations, or other standards of conduct. The Committee, pursuant to Committee Rule 18(a), is investigating and gathering more information regarding these allegations.

"The Committee has determined to investigate these allegations in order to fulfill its institutional obligation, under House Rule X, clause 11(g)(4), to investigate certain allegations of unauthorized disclosures of classified information, and to determine if there has been any violation of the Code of Official Conduct under House Rule XXIII, clause 13. The Committee notes that the mere fact that it is investigating these allegations, and publicly disclosing its review, does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred, or reflect any judgment on behalf of the Committee.

" In order to comply with Committee Rule 7 regarding confidentiality, out of fairness to all respondents, and to assure the integrity of its work, the Committee will refrain from making further public statements on this matter pending completion of its initial review."

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The Ethics Committee elected to start the investigation and, with an evenly divided membership, at least one Republican must have joined the Democrats in making the decision.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-nunes-intelligence-committee-20170525-story.html

"The House Ethics Committee has no deadline to finish its work, and such investigations can take months, or years. Rob Walker, former chief counsel and staff director of the Senate and House ethics committees, said the investigation is probably still in the information-gathering stage, and staff members will have to get security clearance to even get access to some of the intelligence information in question.

SNIP

"The committee has oversight over questions of how classified information is handled. It started the investigation into Nunes' conduct on its own, rather than following normal procedure of having the nonpartisan Office of Congressional Ethics take a precursory look."
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As of May 30, according to the WA Post, the investigation was still ongoing. More info here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=9152512