They look at Trump and see this.
He doesn’t belong where he is.
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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He also said that someone could lie and say something like I have an intelligence source from the FBI that told me Trump likes 10 year old girls and that would not be illegal because it is a lie. When asked if he would publicly say it was a lie, he said he could not because that would be true and that is illegal. Head hurt yet?
They look at Trump and see this.
They look at his voters and see that also.
Life in Washington bubble is the cesspool. We don’t see eye to eye.. and they’ve had the power for too long.
But.. he’s worth more than any of them... power and position trumps wealth?
But is that a reason to hate the man to the extent they want to destroy him? Isn’t that over the line and too much for just thinking he’s of the Zeb mentality?
They destroy the hillbilly man and they are then in fine shape? That is just sick!!!
They’d dislike Jesus Christ also if He was here walking around.
You may recall they threw Him out at their last convention. They now embrace Islam for reasons that I can not understand.
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