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 Committees 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 IIIs 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 Muellers 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 panels Russia probe back from the Republicans he deputized to run it, the chairmans 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 Nuness GOP allies have expressed concern about his tactics, prompting rare public warnings that he should temper his attacks on federal law enforcement.
Im 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 said that his heart would be broken if Nunes follows through on reported plans to issue a corruption exposé about the FBI]
Gowdy has been nothing but the designated sandbagger for the establishment.
Sorry, Trey. When DoJ is engaged is systematic obstruction of justice by refusing to submit documents under lawful subpoena, a behavior they would not tolerate from a target of theirs, DoJ is behaving criminally. It deserves the treatment meted out to accused criminals.
Okay, this is disturbing coming from Gowdy, and an effeminate use of words portraying moony feelings, unbecoming of a serious eye on corruption.
Wonder if the Marxist attached WAPO cheerfully engaged in hitting these high points just to jerk our chain and to encourage the Left?
“Gowdy is the Kabuki King”
quote of the day!
Bttt.
5.56mm
Unfortunately Gowdy is now in charge of the House Oversight committee, so he does have some official ability to try to reign Nunes in, and he is warning Nunes through the press now.
Bottom line it doesn't appear they are working for the same team.
>I will never trust Gowdy for anything ever again since he is responsible for getting that sorry Paul Ryno as Speaker of the People’s House.
Gowdy is clearly controlled opposition.
I always considered TG as powerless. I know view him as an enemy of the American people who is part of the swamp.
Are the Democrats, WaPo and "some Republicans" EVER concerned with his tactics?
I've never heard this phrase before (though I've heard the concept).
It describes the whole Democratic S.O.P. since FDR. How else did we end up with Romney and McCain?
Seems like Gowdy is concerned that the attention has shifted from him to Nunes......
Just try to imagine if the majority of elected Republicans were actually loyal to the people who elected them. I know its a remote concept, but just try to imagine what it would be like. Im trying but not having much luck.
Gowdy is a pressure relief valve. Lots of sound and fury, signifying nothing but the arrival of another YouTube video where you can “WATCH TREY GOWDY DESTROY (INSERT CRIMINAL LIBTARD HERE)!!!”.
I don’t know if he came to the swamp pre-corrupted or if they turned him, but he’s worse than an open enemy now.
As they say at the Conservative Treehouse, he’s strictly a Decepticon, chaff and countermeasures for when the crooks get exposed. Gowdy crows and struts befitting his roosterhead look, and the Lois Lerners of the swamp retire free as an actual bird.
I’m one of the rubes he fooled. I sent Trey Gowdy a heartfelt email thanking him for what he was going to do about the Benghazi fiasco, and instead he became part of the cover up.
The next time I click on a Trey Gowdy vid on YouTube, it’ll be titled “WATCH AS TREY GOWDY DESTROYS JUDGE WHO DENIES HIS APPEAL FOR CLINTON CRIME CONSPIRACY CONVICTION”.
Until then, he can take his rooster haircut and phony folksy outrage show and shove ‘em.
They’re trying to divide the right.
Well, either that, or a teabagger.
In Gowdy’s defense, he is a former prosecutor who is well aware of the serious threats a legislative body can have on a law enforcement agency like the FBI. He’s warning Nunes to tread carefully here to avoid undermining legitimate DOJ investigations.
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