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See #20, and check out #45 by Liz.
Thanks, Candor7.
Posted on 04/05/2019 7:52:58 PM PDT by Candor7
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., appeared to raise exceptions for the number of people who could be the subject of a criminal referral he plans to submit to the Justice Department in the coming days that focuses on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.
The ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee has been teasing a referral for months and previously predicted its delivery by the end of next week.
During a Fox News interview Wednesday evening, Nunes walked back his prior certainty the referral would be ready by Friday due to the burgeoning challenge of ensnaring as many individuals as possible. Inside the Magazine: April 2 Watch Full Screen to Skip Ads
"The American people need to have confidence in the FBI and the Department of Justice. We are working on the referrals," Nunes said. "There's going to be many of them. There are going to probably at least be a dozen if not two dozen individuals, and as we continue to get more information and build these and build them out, we want to make sure that everything is finished before we turn them in."
Affirming commentary by host Sean Hannity about preventing future underhanded tactics to undermine President Trump, Nunes said, "There are people who definitely lied and misled Congress, OK? If they don't go to prison, we are going to have a two-tier Justice Department, justice system in this country and it is not going to be good for the American people."
Nunes has not named anyone who could appear in a referral, nor has he provided a specific number of people who would be targeted.
But there have been clues beyond him saying that "many" people would be criminally referred.
In February he said the GOP minority in the House Intelligence Committee offered up the names of roughly a dozen people they want to subpoena as the Democrats revitalize the panel's Russia investigation, although he said it was doubtful the Democratic majority would cooperate. Instead Nunes has looked to Attorney General William Barr to make headway toward completing an investigation begun last year by a joint GOP-led task force comprising the Judiciary Committee and the Oversight Committee. Key to this effort, which has been bolstered by intelligence panel Republicans, was investigators looking over roughly 15 transcripts of interviews conducted by the task force last year.
In recent weeks, House Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins, R-Ga., released transcripts of the private interviews of former FBI agent Peter Strzok, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, his wife Nellie Ohr, former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, and former top FBI official Bill Priestap.
Nunes has also railed against what he says is collusion between the Democrats and the Russians, pointing to use of the unverified Trump dossier by the FBI to obtain FISA warrants to spy on onetime Trump campaign official Carter Page as proof of an unraveling operation to undermine the president. That dossier, compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele, was funded in part by Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee. .
The USA is in steep decline and frankly politics will not solve her problems.
Blah blah blah. We have more talk and as of yet NO F^^king action. dumb F^^K losers. Talk talk talk. Every damn one of them is a total waste of hot air.
Nothing snipers, 50cals, grenade launchers and "plastic" won't fix.
Right Mr Gummer?
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Good grief! Fight back already! Somebody..anybody on our side please grow a pair and start swinging.
Winning back the House would require the GOP to actually make the effort to do so. The only reason they hung onto the Senate was because of Trump hitting the campaign trail. The GOP (excluding Trump) has been throwing the fight for years, though.
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How will pencil-neck Schiff vote on a criminal referral of himself? Will Hillary, Comey, McCabe and Brennan get referred?
The beast will resist self correction. Been resisting for three years now.
Yep. Do House Republicans ever DO anything?
And monkeys COULD fly out of my butt.
Back to the thread.
See #20, and check out #45 by Liz.
Thanks, Candor7.
Good info , Thanks Lucy
I want to believe in Nunes’ good intentions, but what exactly is the logic of holding back a large batch of criminal referrals because there might be more later? There will always be more later, and there is no limit on the number of letters he can send the DoJ per year.
So what is his real reason for not making the referrals?
Traitor Roberts is in charge of the FISA Court. Start by SWATing him.
So what is his real reason for not making the referrals?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Heat from the never Trump wing of the GOP, the Country Club Republicans who detest the populist aspect of the new, evolving GOP.You know who they are: Senators: Mitt Romney, Mike Lee, Susan Collins, Lisa Murokowski,Cory Gardner,Rob Portman,Ben Sasse, Dan Sullivan and Ohio Gov. John Kasich All of these have been actively working behind the scenes to destroy the populist movement and President Trump. They want PDJT to bear a cloud of suspicion , rather than be the victim of racketeers from an Obama weaponized DOJ and FBI, violating the 1st and 4th amendments of all American citizens using the FISA court, in usurpation of a duly elected president. That’s not the result the “Old Guard” GOP RINOs want.
Now they begin to put the heat on Nunes, IMHO, by threatening GOP funding and fun raising support for Nunes next election campaign in California, or redistricting Nunes out of Congress.These Senators do not want the truth to come out, because the progressive movement which is death to the “Old Guard “ GOP aristocracy who consider themselves privileged from birth, as if they were members of the British peerage.
I believe Nunes is under pressure from the Old Guard RINO GOP, especially in the Senate, who want President Trump to be defeated in 2020.The old guard want their power and privilege back, which would be very bad for America.
But Nunes needs to press on for the good of the country, proceeding with reckless abandon for his own personal political future. Nunes cannot be a half baked hero, he needs to go all the way and let the chips of his personal political fortune fall where they may.
MAKE THOSE REFERRALS!
TRUMP. IS. AMAZING.>>>>>>>>>>>
I believe history will judge President Trump as a true representative of The People, in defiance of vested ideological and finacial interests in Congress.
As such, President Trump will go down in history as one of the greatest presidents of our nation, one who got the job done while carrying the burden of a felonious, criminally unjust cross upon which his vile , unpatriotic, political opponents continuously try to crucify him. This is something that The People should never accept, and I pray America votes accordingly.
All those pressures are probably bearing down on him. My observation is that Nunes has one cold foot in the Swamp. As a Gang of Eight insider, he knows that a functional IC is essential for containing real national security threats, and has to weigh whether treating the infection might kill it but also take out the host. The Democrats (i.e., the DoJ, FBI, CIA, etc.) have set up a situation where the agencies are held hostage to their internal corruption. Though outing it all works great for me, Nunes is probably in a morally difficult position. There are probably many voices whispering I his ear to pipe down and let AG Barr do his job, which of course Barr will never do.
Alternatively, Nunes might feel he has oversold what he can prove, at this time, and does not want to be destroyed as McCarthy II. Going up against a corrupt machine skilled in ruining people and their families is perilous business.
Just frigging do it already.
Going up against a corrupt machine skilled in ruining people and their families is perilous business.>>>>>>>>>>>
Soon we will see if Nunes has what it takes to be a genuine American hero. I hope and pray Nunes has the “right stuff.”
I remember how Nunes was forced to recuse himself from the House Committee due to a bogus DONK ethics Committee, and after a few months he bounced right back to continue to expose these Donk a$$hats to the President, in their sordid attempts to usurp a duly elected President of our Country.
Nunes GO FOR IT!
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