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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Nunes seat is in jeopardy due to the Tax bill.
CA Republicans are pi$$ed.
At this point I wish Trump had left Sessions where he was. I know it was a safe choice at the time but now we are left with a Dem representing our state. None of it foreseeable except the dems always play dirty. I hope we are ready for that next year.
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Gowdy is doing nothing but keeping his re-election campaign warm.
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>> “CA Republicans are pi$$ed.” <<
Total nonsense!
CA Republicans are mostly small business owners, and file most of their income as a corporation.
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Why post that here?
The National Inquirer actually is better - they actually got Edwards to step down. WaPo would just spike the story until it was politically expedient.
A very good point, if it didn't appear to everyone that the DOJ is hopelessly corrupt, at least at the top. Therefore, the "integrity" of their "investigations" isn't necessarily a priority. Finding out who is trustworthy, and who is not, is the priority. And that task is currently the DOJ/IC oversight committees in Congress. At least until a legitimately independent (read NOT former FBI director) special counsel can be appointed, which they have already called for.
Reluctantly agree. Jim Jones is just going to deliver for his leftist voting bloc.
(I know that’s not his actual name, but that’s how he’s going to act.)
When is comes to Nunes I disagree.
I live in his district, everyone that I've talked to regarding Nunes are very proud of him and think he is a champion. He stays in contact with his constituents, I get emails from him all the time. He will easily win re-election.
Bump for later. Good post.
The IG Horowitz investigation is legitimate and the Nunes House Intel Committee investigation isn't?
That doesn't make any sense.
Exactly.
“CA Republicans are mostly small business owners”
There are over 5 million registered Republicans in CA and another 5 million “independents”, some percentage of which always vote Republican.
I contend that a MINORITY of CA Republicans are small business owners. And a majority are wage earners.
Gee I wonder what Gowdy’s net worth has changed since entering Congress? Wonder if that has any impact on his “all hat, no cattle” behavior?
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Shall we take it to the back parking lot?
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Follow the $$$ wherever it goes.
If it leads to Romney, Rove, McCain or Linda...that is just too bad.
Frankly I suspect all four are involved, during a meeting they had with Axelrod in Jackson Hole, WY back in 2015.
Let Mueller continue the Russian probe. He has found nothing, but his investigation is opening up the democrats to full exposure. The way I see it is the ‘swamp’ is all intertwined, and Trump was never part of the swamp. The more they investigate, the more they expose Washington insiders.
LOL. That’s so funny. The Kabuki King!
Rooster haircut. Ha.
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