Posted on 12/31/2017 11:10:39 AM PST by Drew68
Rep. Devin Nunes, once sidelined by an ethics inquiry from leading the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe, is reasserting the full authority of his position as chairman just as the GOP appears poised to challenge special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
The California Republican was cleared in December of allegations he improperly disclosed classified information while accusing the Obama administration of exposing the identities of Trump affiliates on surveillance reports. Since clearing his name, Nunes has stepped up his attacks on Mueller’s team and the law enforcement agencies around it, including convening a group of Intelligence Committee Republicans to draft a likely report on “corruption” among the investigators working for the special counsel.
Though Nunes has not officially wrested his panel’s Russia probe back from the Republicans he deputized to run it, the chairman’s reemergence as a combative Trump loyalist has raised alarm among Democrats that the future of the investigation may be clipped short or otherwise undermined. Even some of Nunes’s GOP allies have expressed concern about his tactics, prompting rare public warnings that he should temper his attacks on federal law enforcement.
“I’m interested in getting access to the information and not the drama,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said earlier this month, when Nunes began threatening contempt citations for FBI Director Christopher A. Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein in the wake of revelations former Mueller team members had exchanged anti-Trump texts.
More recently, Gowdy said that his “heart would be broken” if Nunes follows through on reported plans to issue a corruption exposé about the FBI, citing concerns that issuing such a report outside the context of a comprehensive investigation of the Justice Department could prove damaging to law enforcement.
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Gowdy is a Bush League Republican.
Globalist showman.
The “some republicans” can royally go to hell. Democrats should be troubled. Nunes is a patriot.
More fake news from the WaPo. By failing to tell the whole story - that Nunes was cleared - they are no better than the National Inquirer.
Now the Truth is a tactic. Got
it.
Ok I’m officially anti-Gowdy now.
““I’m interested in getting access to the information and not the drama,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said”
So saith one of the biggest Drama Queens in the Congress.
It sounds like Gowdy supports a cover-up of corruption. Or am I reading too much into his comments?
Gowdy is the Kabuki King.
Good for Nunes. Issue contemp of congress for Rosenstein, Wray
and McCabe NOW!
If Sessions is not going to order compliance, then Congress must act.
The Democrat Party is always “alarmed” when its systemic corruption is unmasked.
Keep up the great work, Devin!
I'm stating to think this as well. I was impressed with Rep. Jim Jordan, watching him grill FBI director Christopher Wray. Hopefully he doesn't disappoint.
+1
I heard Nunes speak the other day. Very impressed.
They're terrified that people are starting to think the Mueller investigation is comprised of partisan Democrats and #NeverTrump Republicans who aren't looking for evidence of collusion but rather fishing for process crimes and who aren't looking for justice but rather trying to find any reason to impeach Trump.
Can't imagine where this notion is coming from?
Nunes is my number 1 pick for Attorney General, a postilion largely unfilled.
Drama Queen, as perfect a description of Gowdy as it’s possible to come up with.
FUTG
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