Posted on 03/23/2017 5:38:05 AM PDT by maggief
A top House Democrat is calling for an investigation into House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes for telling the White House about new information that President Trump and his associates might have been caught up in government surveillance.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said on CNN Thursday that Nunes shouldn't have gone to the press and then briefed Trump about an investigation where Trump is a subject. Cummings said Nunes compromised the independence of his investigation into alleged collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia by doing so.
"The intelligence committee is a very special committee, they are privy to information most of the Congress may never see. You expect them to be extremely confidential," Cummings said.
"What he did was basically to go to the president, who's being investigated by the FBI and others and by the intelligence committee, to give him information. Basically what he has done is he has scuttled and put a cloud over his own investigation, and he has become the subject, basically, or he should be, of his own investigation."
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Investigate ee cummings to see how much intelligence he may have.
It’s their meme of the day.....same old blame game.....
Dem rep (Swalwell (D-Calif.): Nunes ‘betrayed’ Intelligence panel’s independence
Ha!! They’re trying to hide under the proverbial swamp-muck rug, that Trump was the one BETRAYED by O’s vast ‘database organization’ aka corrupt govt agencies.
These innocent animals do not deserve such a shaming insult.
with an ignorant like this baboso, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md, is it any wonder that Maryland is a crap hole.
Keep voting for this Moe there fools.
He's never too young to learn new dance steps... 😀
There is a subversive plot against the President. Telling the President is exactly the right thing to do.
I think Cummings is part of the plot...
“The intelligence committee is a very special committee, they are privy to information most of the Congress may never see. You expect them to be extremely confidential,”
The irony is delicious.
‘Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said on CNN Thursday that Nunes shouldn’t have gone to the press and then briefed Trump about an investigation where Trump is a subject.’
Nunez stressed that Trump was NOT the subject/target in these wiretaps. Trump got caught up as an incidental, and his identity was legally supposed to remain anonymous.
I saw some dem from the same committee that Nunes is on giving a presser yesterday saying what Cummings is saying. What came first , this committee members presser or Cummings blathering?
Gotta give Cummings credit, he knows when to throw smoke grenades. LOL, also “Look a squirrel”.
They get their marching orders and they stick to the party line. It doesn’t matter that they’re taking their orders from an idiot like Cummings in the mold of John Lewis. It doesn’t matter that they’re idiots; what matters is they are senior in some sense, or they have some sort of protected racial provenance.
I thought that the information had been given to the intelligence committee sometime ago and it was never considered. The whistleblowers attorney had to threaten to go public.
HIS investigation? Oh. The one that will never end.
Cummings has leaked documents etc. to people called to testify in front of the committee. He has worked to undermine investigations into Benghazi, etc. Anyway, Trump threw a wrench into that and started a ping pong match. Here is how I recap the match at this point:
Shot 1: The Russians rigged our elections. We are just saying that you must acknowledge their influence. And now that you have, according to leaked “wiretaps” the Trump campaign coordinate with Russia to fix the election. Flynn talked to the Russians (after the election) to offer quid pro quo for fixing the elections.
Shot 2: Why was a U.S. citizen wiretapped?
Shot 3: Oh, it was “incidental.” It was the Russian ambassador who was tapped.
Shot 4: Ok, then why would you unmask a U.S. citizen not subject to the investigation?
Shot 5: No, that isn’t the story!!! It is Trump and the Russians!! Much more serious than unmasking a private U.S. citizen. This is the end of his presidency.
Shot 6: Where is the evidence?
Shot 7: Well there isn’t any which is why we need a special prosecutor.
Shot 8: Tweet: Obama wiretapped the Trump campaign, disgraceful.
Shot 9: Where is the absolute, 100%, without a doubt, proof that Obama wiretapped Trump. Where is the proof that Obama himself snuck into Trump Tower and directly tapped Trump’s phone.
Shot 10: You know Trump meant surveillance in the broader sense of the word. Anyway, why is Trump required to provide 100% proof of tapping, which he says he will provide, when 0% proof is required on the Russian story.
Shot 11: Exactly, the Russian story is the story!!
Shot 12: Really, the story with no evidence? We know, however, that U.S. citizens have been wiretapped in the past. Your own stories in your own newspapers started this entire thing off by saying wiretaps supported collusion with Russia.
Shot 13: Yes, but we meant wiretaps not wiretap wiretaps. Russia and Trump is the story.
Shot 14: Evidence?!?!
Shot 15: Very serious charge. Anyway, Adam Shiff says so. Oh and here is James Comey to announce that ties between the Trump campaign and Russia have been ongoing for 8 months. That must mean there is sumpin there. Impeachment coming. Also, Trump lied about the wiretaps. Comey is unaware of any.
Shot 16: Wait, so Comey has admitted that a sitting President’s administration was investigating a candidate from the opposition party during an election? Also, in the 8 months that this investigation was going on it is Comey’s assertion that surveillance techniques were never used? You know, the stuff used in just about every investigation. Why didn’t he notify anyone? Why would he not investigate the unmasking of U.S. citizens?
Shot 17: The real story is Russia and its links to the Trump campaign. But yes, we are annoyed that Comey didn’t disclose this investigation during the election. Still, Trump should not have any more nominees considered until such time as this cloud is lifted.
Shot 18: What cloud, there is no evidence. It should concern every American that the Obama administration had been screwing with the rules to allow unmasking of U.S. citizens.
Shot 19: Russia, Story, Period. Oh, and Trump’s wiretapping claims have been 100% debunked. This man is hurting the credibility of the nation by lying like this. Just read Susan Rice’s editorial on this in the WaPo for a great summation as to why.
Shot 20: Umm, the head of the House Intel Committee just said there is evidence. There is a whistle blower. Looks like Comey may have lied. Looks like, at the very least, saying Trump is 100% wrong is what is 100% wrong. Why are U.S. citizens being tapped and or unmasked if incidentally tapped? This is a big scandal.
Shot 21: THE STORY IS RUSSIA!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU IDIOTS. WE TELL YOU WHAT TO THINK. GET THE MESSAGE. MIKA TELLS YOU AND WE ALL TELL YOU!!!
Shot 22: There is more coming out on this.
Shot 23: CNN sayeth that according to “unnamed government sources” their “may be” a link with Trump campaign “associates.” You know, just like the same story that the NYT published a couple of months back. Oh, and this investigation has not used any “wiretapping.” The investigation has been based on phone records, eye witnesses and other stuff.
Shot 24: You mean stuff that doesn’t usually support other investigations. This is just the same damn story recycled to scrub away the mistake you previously made by admitting that there was wiretapping.
Shot 25: That’s it, we need to investigate Nunnes and anyone, for that matter, who is ruining our Trump Russia meme. THAT IS THE STORY.
Poor Elijah, he cain’t hep it......he was born that way......a frickin’ moron.
Being a Dumbocrat in Congress only exacerbated his condition.
The pathetic lewis’ “I walked with MLKing” card expired a long time ago. What an absolute moron...and racist.
They always have been lunatics. It is merely that more people are noticing.
Can Cummings pass a 51-50 test? I don’t think so.
I can’t argue with that.
Dear elijah cummings,
I am one of those many Americans who are favor of re-instating the anti-Communist laws.
Your comments, please?
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