Posted on 02/01/2018 1:49:57 AM PST by markomalley
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) ripped House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) on Wednesday following charges from committee Democrats that Nunes had presented an altered memo to the White House for review and release.
In a brief statement, Schumer accused Nunes of being intent to undermine the rule of law with his attempt to "interfere with the Russia probe."
"It’s clear that Chairman Nunes will seemingly stop at nothing to undermine the rule of law and interfere with the Russia probe. He’s been willing to carry the White House’s water, attack our law enforcement and intelligence officials, and now to mislead his House colleagues," Schumer wrote in a statement.
The Senate's top Democrat went on to call on Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to challenge Nunes and other Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, who on Monday voted to release a memo detailing purported government surveillance abuses.
"If Speaker Ryan cares about the integrity of the House or the rule of law, he will put an end to this charade once and for all," Schumer added.
Schumer's statement follows a letter from the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), that Nunes had made "substantive" changes to the memo between Monday's vote and his presentation of the document to White House lawyers. The Republican-crafted memo alleges corrosive abuse of United States surveillance powers by the Justice Department.
"While the Majority’s changes do not correct the profound distortions and inaccuracies in your document, they are nonetheless substantive," Schiff wrote in his letter to Nunes earlier Wednesday night.
"It is now imperative that the Committee Majority immediately withdraw the document that it sent to the White House."
The FBI has also denounced the memo, calling the document "misleading" in a rare statement Wednesday afternoon.
"As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy," the bureau wrote in a statement.
Watch your back, Nunes. Schumer might get a hold of your tax returns.
and to civil war? they are not going to peacefully into the night
all they have had for along time is socialist lies and deception
These crooks always project. This time it is over for them. Their fate has been decided.
Their attitude only justifies the necessity to destroy them!
Wow, just...wow
Sleepless night for the servants of the serpent. If the chief snakes couldn’t pull a rabbit out of the hat for this memo, that can only mean they’re wounded and at least partially disabled.
Maybe they’ve decided to molt off their outer layers of lackeys and hibernate for a while. That would be in keeping with their nature.
They’re trying to twist the story from changes - correcting spelling, etc- being made during the meeting with the agents to changes being made before the meeting...
These communist rats are desperate enough to kill.
Easy solution: Give Shiff a choice - either release the original memo, or release the modified memo...after a quick committee vote.
From "one, two and three."
To "one, two, and three."?
They’re giving the media their orders. “Here’s how you call this a discredited memo.” Fortunately, this memo does not rely on the media for its impact.
The Dems are really, REALLY scared.
A Democrat?
Concerned about the rule of law?
.......please pass the smelling salts........
Oh, those wacky Rats - always projecting!
When you are drawing flak, you are over the target.
Everytime the Demonrats accuse their opponents of misdeeds or wrongdoings or racism or anything,they are doing or have done the same thing or worse. Usually worse.
Chuck U is merely a bystander as the Onion is peeled to reveal the truth. Whatever is released, the real allegations and inferences will become known, it is way past time for a sea-change and the destruction of the Slimy Rodents who have ursurped the power of our republic for personal power and wealth. Please pass the bacon popcorn.....
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