Posted on 03/29/2017 11:11:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
House rules compel Congress to ‘investigate any unauthorized disclosure of intelligence.’ That’s what the intel chair seems to have done when he talked about Team Trump and foreign surveillance.
The controversy surrounding House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes may just be getting started. Nunes could soon be staring down the barrel of a House Ethics Committee investigation, lawyers familiar with the House’s rules tell The Daily Beast.
A few Republicans have already joined Democrats in calling for Nunes to either recuse himself from his committee’s probe into Russian influence—or to step down as chairman.
To add to this pressure, it appears that the chairman may have opened himself up to an ethics investigation by apparently disclosing the existence of a foreign surveillance warrant during a press conference last Tuesday.
Nunes’s problem lies in the arcane rules of the House of Representatives. Buried in the rules regarding the House Intelligence Committee is a section that triggers a mandatory investigation into an allegation of spilling classified information.
“The Committee on Ethics shall investigate any unauthorized disclosure of intelligence or intelligence-related information,” reads the rule. The key to this rule is the phrase, “shall investigate”—a command, rather than a mere suggestion.
“The plain wording of the rule is that the ethics committee is required to conduct such an investigation,” said Brett Kappel, an attorney that specializes in political law.
The trigger could be as simple as a complaint from a single member of the House of Representatives.
“If another member of Congress were to raise a written complaint about the actions of chairman Nunes, specifically his decision to disclose to the public information that is classified… the ethics committee would be required to conduct an inquiry,” explained Bradley Moss, a lawyer that specializes classification issues.
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How was Charlie Rangel treated?
House Ethics...an oxymoron
I believe this is the Opposition Party’s wet dream - “Nunes facing an Ethics Probe; or recuse himself from his committee’s probe into Russian influence; or to step down as chairman.”
I say no!!
The Opposition Party is so out of control these days. Their hysteria is so overblown, jumping the shark, frantic, crazy, insane. Anything they say or do has to be looked as a lunatic going nuts.
The Opposition Party is:
- msm (CNN #FAKENEWS, NBC, etc)
- Democrats
- GOPe/RINOS (such as McCain, etc)
- Hollywood
- Education (colleges, etc)
- intelligence community
I hope all this nonsense strengthens Numes resolve.
Nunes that is.
No he won’t. Nunes is part of the intelligence gang of eight. An official group of 4 from each party that are authorized to receive white house briefings on highly classified and sensitive intelligence. They are sworn to extra secrecy on that matter.
Nunes did nothing wrong. Some of those dems know that. The ranking member of the Democrats knows this well and himself should be investigated for trying to put that system under scrutiny.
The intelligence gang of eight are the two ranking members of the house and senate intelligence committee and the two ranking members of each party of each house.
Nunes is taking flak.
He is definitely over the target.
Bombs away!
“But they have no problem with the disclosure of say, Michael Flynn’s name, etc. These people are quite insane.”
Comey said there was no surveillance. He lied therefore he did not break the law because he didn’t disclose anything. Nunez disclosed that there was a FISA order. He told the truth. Therefore be broke the law. It totally makes sense, ref sympathy for the devil. “Just as every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints. It is hard to seen the Democrats as anything other than pure evil at this point.
More than anything it is designed to distract from the fact that Obama ordered surveillance on Trump.
Enough of this nonsense! Trump needs to erupt over this.
I’ve been researching that all morning.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3539169/posts?page=25#25
This needs a thread of it’s own. It’s too important to remain embedded within a thread.
It’s looking like there is an intelligence agency that nobody dares mention, hint or even infer. The head of the FBI refuses to mention it, the DHS refuses to mention it and even Trump refuses to mention it.
BS This is crap. The MSM and the entire Washington DC is so full of worthless reporters and politicians America has become a crap heap of nitwits.
Go for it...it really should be out there...
Well, if you are in a meeting with 7 other people and you are all SWORN to secrecy and you pick up the paper the next day and find
A-you went to the toilet twice.
B-you drank 3 cups of coffee
C-you raised your voice
is the headline in the next days Time/Post etc...
It definitely is a STRONG signal that someone in the room is not to be trusted.
Yes, you may attempt to trick the leaker but that takes time and proof, better if you get something particular sensitive to another party you may tend to confide in the other party prior to ‘sharing’ with your trusted colleagues...
OLD CHESTNUT
A detective was on the stand testifying and the defense lawyer got around to the policy of ‘trusting’ your partner with your life and, in general, the trust of one cop for another.
The lawyer carried it a bit further
Lawyer:”Where do you store your stuff when out in the street?”
Cop, In my Locker.
Lawyer “Is there a lock on your locker”
Cop Yes
Lawyer...Tell me, if you have so much trust in your partner and the other cops, why would you and the rest of them put locks on your lockers.
Cop: We trust each other and as you know, the Police Dept is in the Basement of the Courthouse and the Attorneys office and lounge is across the hall and lawyers have been know to use our restrooms - SO, we keep our lockers locked.
He’s just taking Flak.....he’s not wounded as your picture would suggest!
Lol, these guys are trying so hard to turn this away from Loretta Lynch, Comey, and Obama.
I don’t know all the legally authorized power the President has... I know obama abused his power all the time.. but what is the limits to legally authorized power available for President Trump?
Whatever it is... USE IT and get this damned monkey .. the dems and the repubs who would do this... off the President’s back!! It’s getting too much to tolerate.
Didn’t they discuss a new TV network? It’s time to get the word out there on what Trump is accomplishing... it is not known by most.. they don’t want the public to know he is doing things for them. I am back to not watching the news.. can’t take the attacks that have no truth.
I have never seen such a block and hate as they are showing. Will Fox PLEASE set the record on WHY they are fighting so hard against him? There is a reason.. this is unheard of.. and it’s not just “they hate him”... WHY is it so far and wide and so loud..
Last evening Hume said they hate him.. but no reason.. which makes no sense or logic... and why aren’t the people asking why?
I know there are too many who are just ignorant and reacting to the media they do hear... but this is not it either. Is it jealousy with the men? Can’t be. They loved obama... It’s not because Trump is a republican, and he isn’t a far right conservative... they hated him before he began to do conservative things..
I go to the world order... is that it? Do those in that order, have that much control over all the dems.. all the talking heads..? I know there are many who belong to the World Order, who are in Washington... and NY.. is that where the angst is coming from.. the world government? Is it happening with Brexit? is it hated that much and in danger?
I know it felt like obama opened up the hordes of hell on this country.. and it continues.. the riots, the hate speech, the hitting/beating anyone who does not think like the left... that hell still feels like it’s opened up. The dems in congress talk like I’ve never heard politicians talk before... rudeness has taken over.. there is no tolerance for anything but what they think. it used to be hidden, somewhat... not any more!
Does anyone know the answers to these questions? Is there a way to stop the open warfare that will take a good day and make it a bad one?
How dare Numes reveal this big secret... he should be arrested!
Still no “ethics probes” of those Nazis in “da intelligence community” who are leaking the sh*t out of stuff though, huh?
This just tells me that there are some bad republicans too. They are trying like hell to get Nunez out. Which means he has something important. And the bipartisan fire power makes me think that its people within the CIA who are doing the shooting.
Fake News
They fear him.
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