Posted on 02/15/2019 1:16:13 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, on Thursday demanded accountability in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process to deal with the "terror" in the FBI and Justice Department.
In an interview with Fox News, Nunes, R-Calif., was asked to comment on “The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump," the new book by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who is engaged in an explosive media tour.
The book title, Nunes quipped, has the source of the "terror" mixed up.
"I had not heard the name of the book until you said it. It's interesting they talk about in an 'Age of Terror.' What I think most Republicans agree with ... the terror came from the FBI and Department of Justice who used a document, dirt, dug up by the Clinton campaign to start an investigation," he said.
Nunes was referring to longstanding concern that there may have been rampant bias in the upper levels of the FBI against President Trump. The "dirt" is the infamous dossier, compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele. When Nunes was chairman of the House Intelligence Committee last year, the GOP majority of the panel released a memo that asserted the so-called “Trump dossier,” which contained unverified claims about Trump's ties to Russia, was used by the FBI to help obtain the FISA warrants to spy on onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page, but key information, including its author's anti-Trump bias and Democratic benefactors, was left out.
McCabe was one of the top officials who signed off one of these FISA applications.
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I disapprove of misusing words like “terror” and “terrorism”. Some senior members of the FBI and DOJ were engaged in a coup, sedition, and treason, but as far as I know their crimes were not terrorism.
Nunes is right. Too bad he’s just one guy.
Correction: their crimes were not limited to terrorism.
Terrorism is the infliction of physical or emotional trauma on innocent civilians.
In qualifying the crimes of the FBI, which include the apparent FBI led terrorism at the Mohamid cartoon protest in Texas a few years ago, I don’t know if we can tell which is worse, their terrorism or their treason.
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