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Devin Nunes, targeting Mueller and the FBI, alarms Democrats and some Republicans with his tactics
Washington Post ^ | 12/31/2017 | Karoun Demirjian

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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To: Drew68

How sad for the Congress Swamp Critters. They alarm us period.


21 posted on 12/31/2017 11:35:29 AM PST by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: tennmountainman

Trey is just a Corruption Monitor

“Yep, there’s corruption”


22 posted on 12/31/2017 11:36:10 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: samtheman

There really is something fundamentally wrong with the republicans as a group. I’m deeply suspicious of Gowdy.


23 posted on 12/31/2017 11:36:12 AM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: Drew68
"alarms Democrats and some republicans"

Sounds like it alarms the Washington Post, too.
24 posted on 12/31/2017 11:38:51 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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Goody went in like a lion.


25 posted on 12/31/2017 11:40:52 AM PST by proust (Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.)
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To: Eddie01

LOL.


26 posted on 12/31/2017 11:44:40 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: Williams

We need citizen congress members, NOT professional politicians. A true statesman is a reluctant candidate that leaves to return to private life. George Washington is our finest example. President Trump may very well be our next. MAGA!


27 posted on 12/31/2017 11:46:27 AM PST by Billyv (Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
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To: Souled_Out
Gowdy said that his “heart would be broken”

Does Gowdy identify as a teenage girl?
28 posted on 12/31/2017 11:47:24 AM PST by Rastus
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To: Drew68

Somebody needs to primary Gowdy. What state is this clown from?


29 posted on 12/31/2017 11:47:48 AM PST by conservative98
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To: Drew68

I am tired of people worried about hurting the FBI’s feelings. Until the underlings start screaming about their bosses they are all complicit, incompetent and out for themselves. That goes for the other intelligence agencies too.


30 posted on 12/31/2017 11:48:18 AM PST by dgbrown
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To: Lurkinanloomin

31 posted on 12/31/2017 11:50:17 AM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Drew68

Jim Jordan and Dave Brat are the models we need to replicate in place of the Bush League cheap labor importers.


32 posted on 12/31/2017 11:54:09 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents-Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: All

Gowdy is a Fake.

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33 posted on 12/31/2017 11:56:27 AM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: Drew68

Gowdy is a rodeo clown for the deep state.


34 posted on 12/31/2017 11:57:51 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck

Gowdy is Ryan. Eddie Haskills both of em.


35 posted on 12/31/2017 12:01:17 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Drew68
Very white of them to mention the ethics inquiry in the first paragraph and then insert the fact that he was cleared in the second. The Washington Post couldn't find politically motivated ethics charges with both hands. Washington is swimming in that and they can't seem to find it. When a Republican is on the receiving end of that game. I hope Nunes gets things into gear. The statute of limitation on Hillary Clinton's activities will start to run soon.
36 posted on 12/31/2017 12:12:14 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: All

[Gowdy said his heart would be broken]

WTG Gowdy. Keep up that Issa act. Democrats and GOP Establishment got you all comfortable now, do they? Got offshore land like the Booshes?


37 posted on 12/31/2017 12:12:42 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: mac_truck

38 posted on 12/31/2017 12:14:14 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: norwaypinesavage
By failing to tell the whole story - that Nunes was cleared - they are no better than the National Inquirer.

If you had fought through all the way to the second sentence of the article...

"The California Republican was cleared in December of allegations he improperly disclosed classified information..."

39 posted on 12/31/2017 12:14:22 PM PST by semimojo
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To: norwaypinesavage

“By failing to tell the whole story - that Nunes was cleared - they are no better than the National Inquirer.”

First sentence, paragraph 2:

“The California Republican was cleared in December of allegations ...”


40 posted on 12/31/2017 12:24:10 PM PST by TexasGator (Z)
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