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Devin Nunes Warns America About the FBI and the FISA Courts
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 12/16/2019 4:26:09 AM PST by EyesOfTX

The most important video clip from Sunday morning’s talk shows were not the clips of the insipid Chris Wallace interviewing crooked James Comey and Bug-eyes Schiff. – Those were predictably soft-balled affairs conducted by a sympathetic hack who would be better at home on CNN or MSNBC. As a result of Wallace’s willingness to allow his two subjects to filibuster and deflect without any effective followup questioning, those interviews revealed nothing of real value.

No, the most important video clip from Sunday was Maria Bartiromo’s interview of California Republican Devin Nunes, who pulls no punches on the FBI, the DOJ, the FISA court and its judges, and on Comey. First, the clip, which is eight minutes long, followed by a partial transcript of the highlights of Nunes’ remarks [Bartiromo’s questions/comments are paraphrased for brevity]:

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Transcript:

Bartiromo: In March 2018, you came out with what is referred to as the Nunes Memo. That memo laid out the facts about the House Intelligence Committee’s findings in its investigation into the Justice Department’s abuse of the FISA process. Now we know that everything you said in that memo is true, thanks to the IG report. After you came out with that memo, you were mocked by the Democrats and the Media. Adam Schiff came out with his own memo disputing everything you had said. Tell us about the letter you sent to Adam Schiff this morning.

Nunes: Well, first off, we need to have a hearing with IG Horowitz next week. The longer that this goes on, the longer it takes for America to heal itself. The FISA court itself is in tremendous jeopardy. We cannot support the FISA court right now. The judges are refusing to take action against these dirty cops and dirty lawyers who did this.

That’s totally unacceptable, because remember, this is a secret court. The people who, like Carter Page, they have no recourse except for congress. This is why the House Intel Committee and Senate Intel Committee were created.

So, it’s important to take people back. It wasn’t just that we learned about this in February of 2018; House Republicans learned about this in the spring of 2017, at least the initial part, that the dossier had been used, the Clinton paid-for dirt. We then proved that the Clintons did pay for it, and the DNC did pay for it, in the Fall of 2017, and we knew that we had to get this information out to the American public. And that’s what led to us producing this memo in February of 2018, that the media helped cover up for it.

To get back to normalcy in this country we need a free and fair press, but we don’t have that today. We still have numerous members of the media – hundreds of them – who attack not only House Republicans for putting this out, but anyone else in the media who said, hey, maybe the Republicans have a point here, should’t we get to the bottom of it?

And remember, we spent a year saying these documents need to be declassified, and that would have ended it there. But instead, what happened is that the Democrats lied, and now they have put the American people in tremendous danger. The judges on the FISA court are putting the American people in danger.

The American people at the end of the day, we are not going to give up our liberty in order to have some court spy on political campaigns, and to use our counterintelligence capabilities to do that.

Bartiromo: One thing that we did not hear from the IG report was anything that happened before July, 2016. Jim Comey continues to claim the FBI launched its counterintelligence investigation in July, 2016. Yet, there is all this operational activity before that. We had informants running against Carter Page and George Papadopoulous as early as March. What can you tell us about this?

Nunes: Yeah, we are unsure about why Horowitz was unable to figure out what happened pre-July 31. But remember, the dirty cops at the FBI and the DOJ, over the last couple of years hid that from congress also. They would answer no questions. So, right there you have obstruction of a congressional investigation that ought to be held at the highest level, all of those people who blocked us from getting that information. Especially if we find out later that the FBI was involved in it.

Here’s what we know right now: We know that the spy ring that was created to target Carter Page, George Papadopoulous, Trump Campaign officials, this big spy ring that was spying on the Trump Campaign…before the FISA application in October, this was in August and September 2016, they’re getting miked up to record the conversations with the Trump Campaign members.

That same spy ring was already operational in Spring and early Summer of 2016. So look, I don’t know if the FBI was running it, I don’t know if some other government agency was running it, I don’t know if some foreign government was operating it. I mean, hell, for all I know, it was Putin and Russia and the Ukrainians since that seems to be the blame for everything that happens wrong at the FBI, the DOJ or the Democratic Party when they lose elections.

I don’t know who the hell was running the spy ring, but I want to know, and the American people need to know, and that’s what John Durham is trying to figure out and I’m glad he’s there.

Bartiromo: Give us an update on your libel lawsuit against CNN. Last time we asked you – a week and a half ago – you had served them in the suit but you hadn’t heard back from them. Give us an update on that.

Nunes: Well, as predicted, they’re refusing to come to the table to work this out. And the defamation and the reckless disregard for the truth continues. Remember: Any Republican who didn’t go along with media narrative first was accused of being in the Putin puppets and Russian spies. Now, if you talked to a Ukrainian, that’s a problem, and if you talked to the former Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, that’s an even bigger problem. You can’t make this stuff up.

But what CNN did, and the timing that they did that to create tremendous damage not only to me, but to my fellow Republicans in congress, this was to create a new media narrative that Republicans couldn’t be trusted because we were having secret meetings in Vienna with shady Ukrainians, ok? Great story, CNN, it’s great for Hollywood, it would be great for some sitcom at Fox possibly, but when it’s…

Bartiromo: You haven’t had heard back from them…

Nunes: …it didn’t happen.

Bartiromo: Before you go, Comey is out this morning saying ‘I was wrong. I was overconfident in the procedures that the FBI and Justice had built over 20 years. I thought they were robust enough – it’s incredibly hard to get a FISA, and I was confident in those. But he was right, and there was real sloppiness. 17 things that should have been in the application or were discussed should have been characterized differently, and it was unacceptable.’ This is what Comey is saying this morning.

Nunes: Yeah, well, look, Comey, who cares what he says, right? He already knew that the Dossier was salacious and unverified, at least that’s what he testified to us in early 2017. He knew that had been used in the FISA, he knew that what he called it in Bret Baier’s interview, he called it a ‘mosaic of facts,’ he knew what the rest of those facts were. He knew that it was the dirty Dossier, he knew it was fake news articles that were planted by Fusion GPS and Democrat operatives, and he knew the spying had already occurred.

Bartiromo: So he lied.

Nunes: Perhaps the only thing he didn’t know was there was exculpatory evidence, that would be the only thing, but he knew the rest of it. I mean, he’s lied so many times, you could take a whole IG report and make about a thousand pages of the Comey lies.

Bartiromo: Congressman, it’s good to see you this morning.

[End]

The main thing to know about Nunes is that he, more than any other member of congress, knows where all the bodies are buried in all of this, and he is obviously getting tired of the long and drawn out process of getting the truth out to the American people. Schiff also knows where most, if not all of those bodies are buried, but as we have seen, Schiff is just focused on lying about all of it to protect his political party and the deep state dirty cops at the FBI.

This interview was the guy who knows more than anyone else about all of this sounding the alarm to the public about the FISA courts and what he calls the “dirty cops” who abuse them to spy on American citizens. We ignore his warnings at our own peril.

That is all.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Humor; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: fakenews; mediabias; trump; trumpwinsagain
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1 posted on 12/16/2019 4:26:09 AM PST by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX

Bkmk


2 posted on 12/16/2019 4:28:11 AM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: EyesOfTX

The FISA warrant allows the “two-hop” rule. That means the spying just starts with Page. It includes the first circle of people who Page had direct contact with. And includes the second circle of people who had contact with the first circle. Carter Page had direct contact with President Trump adviser Steve Bannon, so the second hop would include President Trump.


3 posted on 12/16/2019 4:30:27 AM PST by Bruce Kurtz
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To: EyesOfTX

Just wanted to add that Devon Nunes is presidential material. He needs to be acknowledged and made somewhat secure within the GOP and the entire nation.


4 posted on 12/16/2019 4:36:05 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: EyesOfTX

bookmark for later


5 posted on 12/16/2019 4:39:14 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: EyesOfTX

Chief Justice John Roberts is 100% responsible for the FISA courts and their malicious behavior. As long as Roberts is Chief Justice, the FISA elements will be hugely problematic for our republic.


6 posted on 12/16/2019 4:53:36 AM PST by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: Montana_Sam

Not a word from Roberts or the FISA judges who were scammed yet. They’ve all known that Obama’s internal security apparatchiks had been abusing the system since Judge Collyer called them on it three years ago. You can never trust a democrat with a process so ripe for abuse.

https://amp.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article152947909.html


7 posted on 12/16/2019 5:05:55 AM PST by hardspunned
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To: EyesOfTX
Eff the FBI.

They made their bed, now lie in it.


8 posted on 12/16/2019 5:07:59 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: EyesOfTX

Shut FISA down shut FBI down.

Done with these abusive tyrants.

There is no rebuilding trust.

They can all go to Hell.


9 posted on 12/16/2019 5:12:59 AM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: EyesOfTX

“To get back to normalcy in this country we need a free and fair press, but we don’t have that today.”

The media is for the democrats like a bank giving a person unlimited spending privilege, will cash any check written.


10 posted on 12/16/2019 5:20:40 AM PST by odawg
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To: chris37
There is no rebuilding trust.

Certainly not with the current group that is leading them.

It looks like Wray is as corrupt and smarmy as Comey {just not as tall}.

With all that has been known for over two years, how can some of these crooks still be trusted {and paid} to continue with the fbi?

11 posted on 12/16/2019 5:23:19 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist mooselimb savages, today.)
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To: USS Alaska

They can’t, especially not with me.

I am of the mind that, if you abuse the power I’ve entrusted you with, then I will take that power back, and never get it to anyone again.

You get one chance to not be corrupt tyrants. One.

They blew theirs. I’m done with liars. These people are out to destroy innocent Americans. They aren’t investigators. These are not good people. These are criminals with badges. The FBI can go to Hell.


12 posted on 12/16/2019 5:27:20 AM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: EyesOfTX
"... the officers in high power daily seek and collect made-up crimes against the righteous men for the sake of revenge for their personal grievances."

from The Peach Blossom Fan by Kung Shang-Jen, written in 1699.

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

13 posted on 12/16/2019 5:38:36 AM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: chris37

I have a neighbor saying this very thing - and he’s retired FIB.


14 posted on 12/16/2019 6:51:02 AM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Bruce Kurtz
The FISA warrant allows the “two-hop” rule

Think what could happen with this two-hop rule if they got an original warrant on a telemarketer. Everyone in the world would be subject to surveillance.

15 posted on 12/16/2019 6:59:13 AM PST by etcb
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To: EyesOfTX

Samantha Power unmasked 300 people in one year. How and why?


16 posted on 12/16/2019 7:00:03 AM PST by outpostinmass2
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To: hardspunned

Not a word from Roberts or the FISA judges who were scammed yet.

They may not have been scammed and might have part of this attempted overthrow. Expect them to be trying to defend their positions soon.


17 posted on 12/16/2019 7:01:28 AM PST by excalibur21
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To: USS Alaska

“It looks like Wray is as corrupt and smarmy as Comey {just not as tall}.”

Yeah, that interview was pathetic. Wray couldn’t bring himself to acknowledge any FBI wrongdoing whatsoever! Not much chance of him cleaning house.

I suppose President Trump should wait until the Senate acquits him before firing another FBI Chief, but he needs to be replaced ASAP - this time by an outsider with a set of brass balls.


18 posted on 12/16/2019 7:10:44 AM PST by enumerated
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To: EyesOfTX

Only 2 sentences now need be remembered around any law officer or agent:

1. I want a/my lawyer.

2. I was afraid for my life.


19 posted on 12/16/2019 7:12:33 AM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust! Hi)
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To: EyesOfTX

How many times has Nunes voted in support of the FISA court? And I mean all around, funding it, keeping it, etc.


20 posted on 12/16/2019 7:49:18 AM PST by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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