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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How sad for the Congress Swamp Critters. They alarm us period.
Trey is just a Corruption Monitor
“Yep, there’s corruption”
There really is something fundamentally wrong with the republicans as a group. I’m deeply suspicious of Gowdy.
Goody went in like a lion.
LOL.
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!
Somebody needs to primary Gowdy. What state is this clown from?
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.
Jim Jordan and Dave Brat are the models we need to replicate in place of the Bush League cheap labor importers.
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Gowdy is a Fake.
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Gowdy is a rodeo clown for the deep state.
Gowdy is Ryan. Eddie Haskills both of em.
[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?
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..."
“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 ...”
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