Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDevin Nunes's Curious Trip to London
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/devin-nuness-curious-trip-to-london/568699/Earlier this month, as all eyes were on the courtroom dramas unfolding in Virginiawhere President Donald Trumps campaign chairman was just convicted on bank- and tax-fraud chargesand in New Yorkwhere the presidents longtime personal lawyer pleaded guilty to campaign-finance violations and implicated Trump in a crimethe chairman of the House Intelligence Committee was in London, seeking out new information about the former British intelligence officer and Trump-Russia dossier author Christopher Steele.
According to two people familiar with his trip across the pond who requested anonymity to discuss the chairmans travels, Devin Nunes, a California Republican, was investigating, among other things, Steeles own service record and whether British authorities had known about his repeated contact with a U.S. Justice Department official named Bruce Ohr. To that end, Nunes requested meetings with the heads of three different British agenciesMI5, MI6, and the Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. (Steele was an MI6 agent until a decade ago, and GCHQ, the United Kingdoms equivalent of the National Security Agency, was the first foreign-intelligence agency to pick up contacts between Trump associates and Russian agents in 2015, according to The Guardian.)
A U.K. security official, speaking on background, said it is normal for U.K. intelligence agencies to have meetings with the chairman and members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. But those meetings did not pan outNunes came away meeting only with the U.K.s deputy national-security adviser, Madeleine Alessandri. The people familiar with his trip told me that officials at MI6, MI5, and GCHQ were wary of entertaining Nunes out of fear that he was trying to stir up a controversy. Spokespeople for Alessandri and Nunes did not return requests for comment, and neither did the press offices for MI5 and MI6. GCHQ declined to comment.
Steele, who authored a collection of memos sourced to Kremlin and campaign insiders alleging a conspiracy between Trumps campaign and Moscow to win the 2016 election, has been a fixation for Nunes ever since the document was published slightly more than two weeks before Trumps inauguration. Last summer, two of Nuness staffers, Kash Patel and Doug Presley, traveled to Londonwithout the knowledge of the U.S. Embassy or British governmentin search of Steele, whose lawyer denied the staffers access to his client. This time, Nunes sought a work-around, Im told. His trip to London at such a precarious moment for the president, and the intelligence agencies decision to decline him a meeting, is emblematic of the political island on which Nunes finds himselfalong with a handful of other Trump allies in Congress and the mediaas he continues his search for wrongdoing by the Justice Department....more
InfoView thread info, including edit history
TrashPut this thread in your Trash Can (My DU » Trash Can)
BookmarkAdd this thread to your Bookmarks (My DU » Bookmarks)
5 replies, 805 views
ShareGet links to this post and/or share on social media
AlertAlert this post for a rule violation
PowersThere are no powers you can use on this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
ReplyReply to this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
Rec (6)
ReplyReply to this post
5 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Devin Nunes's Curious Trip to London (Original Post)
Skidmore
Aug 2018
OP
SWBTATTReg
(22,174 posts)1. Doesn't Devin Nunes work and/or represent his folks in CA?
Seems like he's doing his own thing, while ignoring everyone else. I'd look very carefully at him (Nunes) and see where his loyalty really lies...it is certainly not Congress and it is certainly not his voters...
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)2. I'll bet he's
being blackmailed all to hell. He owes somebody something big.
wryter2000
(46,083 posts)4. I read here recently
That he and Rohrabacher are under investigation
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)5. The story I heard
Is that he owns a vineyard and it was failing but then after a large infusion of cash, it seems to be doing "better".
Uh-huh.
wryter2000
(46,083 posts)3. Dear people of Fresno and environs
Please dump this clown