Nunes: surveillance was "political" and "inappropriate." At White House. SHAMING FBI.

[anneboleyn]

Folks, the chair of the intel committee, without informing his colleagues, is standing in front of the White House shaming the FBI (!!!!!) saying the FBI is "not cooperating" and that the intel he claims he was privy to was "political." He is clearly trying to cover Trump's ass. What a shame. They are DESPERATELY TRYING TO DISCREDIT COMEY AND DESTROY THE FBI INVESTIGATION. Nunes is claiming these "reports" support Trump's claims.

Just ran away after saying a VERY SNIPPY and SNARKY COMMENT about Comey: "he needs to come talk to US."

[JHan]

1. wow.

[benld74]

2. He is compromised and controlled by WH

GOP is complying to Trump!

[MelissaB]

3. Somebody needs to pull his security clearances and kick him off that committee

and then arrest this fucker.

K&R

[randome]

4. What whining losers. I bet Dolt45 thinks he can get away with firing Comey now.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]

[asiliveandbreathe]

11. Oh, of course, wouldn't surprise us in the least..get rid of Comey...

considering he doesn't have little peep to protect him (sessions)

[MFM008]

26. big Nixon like mistake

and the beginning of the end of him when he fired that guy.

[Renew Deal]

5. Have to wonder if Nunes is a suspect

[maryallen]

33. Nunes

Possibly, his name is one that has been unredacted and now is unveiled and recognizable as it
appears in intelligence reports. Nunes needs to be removed as chairman of the committee. The committee cannot be considered fair and unbiased when he receives this information -- probably from Trump -- and then hauls butt to the WH, which he is supposed to be investigating.

[tblue37]

59. Nunes is inadvertently making a strong case for a special prosecutor. nt

[True Blue American]

67. McCain just said," We need a Select Committee."

Congress does not have the ability.

[ananda]

41. I'm sure he is.

The handwriting is on the wall.

[2naSalit]

44. I'm pretty damned sure he's a suspect

which is why he's not getting the intel he's looking to bury before it gets out of the capsule. I think that the way Comey was looking at him was like; I see you, f'er, and I'll have your ass in legirons in a heartbeat.

And I suspect that what he just spent the last 90 minutes doing will be his undoing and may well have been set up to blow it by Comey et al.

[Renew Deal]

47. A Democrat should have asked Comey

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Is there a target of the investigation in this room? Blink twice for yes.

[2naSalit]

80. LOL!

That would have given too many a heads up that they were next. I'd rather watch them scramble around a little and squirm with cold sweat for a couple days. They are bound to totally blow it in public... the level of sophistication is so low.

[Renew Deal]

82. I get the feeling that Nunes is on the list

Doing something nefarious. Best explanation for his craziness yesterday

[2naSalit]

84. Oh, not only him...

but all the Rs on the intel committees in both houses of Congress are com;icit as is the Speaker, the Majority leader and several others in the Senate. It is colossal in scope and breadth... this will be the corruption primer for centuries.

...believe me.

There's lots of squirming going on right now, and several upset stomachs. You can tell by all the rats leaping from the sinking ship, they can see the torpedo trails in the water and they are headed for the rogue ship GOP.

[Blue_Roses]

79. I wonder about a setup too

because if so, Nunes sure took the bait!

[2naSalit]

81. and he

SWALLOWED IT! Which would be amusing to get the skinny on but it could also be a WH set up to let him get the notice, cast aspersions in Nunes' direction as a "squirrel" while everyone is rightfully focused on Manafort now, and that's gonna make some heads explode.

Or it could be that he just blew it because there are so few functioning brain cells among the whole crew.

[Blue_Roses]

85. lol...

the possibilities are endless with this group...

[2naSalit]

86. That's for sure....nt

[Idoru]

6. This sounds awfully desperate

What does he know that is making him act this way, hmm?

[Juliusseizure]

16. Agree

[2naSalit]

45. He probably

found out that he's in trouble and that is why he's not getting the same intel briefings he knows about but can't attend. He's dirty and is now scared, so scared that he just blew it bigly. Another one out the door and I hope the rest will follow presently.

[GliderGuider]

7. Looks like the wheels have fallen off!

[asiliveandbreathe]

8. The confirmation hearing for gorsuck needs to be suspended NOW!

All hands on deck to weed out and dismiss Nunes from committee inv..we need a special prosecutor - Independent Investigation..this is getting out of hand - WTF......

[MFM008]

29. BLOTUS has a BIG win

if he is allowed to be seated.

Also momentum in Obama care repeal gets through house.

[asiliveandbreathe]

35. The confirmation hearing gorsuck is all theater..he will be confirmed...

I refuse to accept any big win for the so-called potus....the repeal ACA, dunno...we'll see....

Something is happening regarding the investigation - perhaps the lid is shaking on the boiling pot..hope so!!

[Initech]

37. I say we shut the whole damn government down at this.

Top to bottom, every single branch and every single department has been compromised by these treasonous fucking assholes. Shut it down until we can figure out what the fuck is going on here and root out those that allowed treason to happen, and throw them all in maximum security prison. We need to know what happened and we need to know now. I'm looking at you, Mitch!

[asiliveandbreathe]

38. Absolutely - I want the conversation between Nunes and the dump made

public...if not - sue their arse - to supremes for info, just like Nixon and Watergate...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/timeline.html

[MFM008]

52. X1000

.....

[erinlough]

9. He needs to go now.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

10. The country can't take this much longer

[Ilsa]

12. I wish he'd go down with 45.

Crushed by his defense of 45 and putin.

[gopiscrap]

13. Bullshit, when the FBI suspects a crime

it is their responsibility to ferret it out by any legal means possible.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. right - but what I am gathering their beef is - is with the unmasking of people. Wish I had paid

closer attention to Comey talking about unmasking. Why do they unmask?

[pnwmom]

51. They unmask when it is necessary to understand what is going on in the conversation

or when they think they are seeing evidence of a crime.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

65. Well, that sounds so benign. WH screaming about unmasking because it allows leaks.

[pnwmom]

70. And I just read somewhere else that most of the names were masked. Nunes said that

he could, however, guess the names in context.

I think he's trying to blow a bunch of smoke.

[old guy]

14. Not really a surprise.

I didn't know exactly what their plan was but I did suspect they had one to try to make this all go away. It may be a mistake doing it this way as it makes it more necessary for a special prosecutor but we shall see. Plus it's not real smart to piss off the intelligence community.

[Juliusseizure]

15. Trump may be looking for excuse to fire Comey

Problem is nothing FBI did was illegal or politically motivated, and Comey is a Republican. He even went against FBI protocal to help get Drumpf elected.

This reeks of Trump's typical "attack the messenger" MO and is a desperate move. Fire Comey and we have a watergate type firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox used as a basis for impeachment.

Nunes is protecting himself by saying surveillance was legal. Otherwise, it would be perjury.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. nunes complaining about unmasking and leaking

[NewRedDawn]

46. Then leaks himself.

Fucking greasy fascist hypocrite. Go back to the Azores where you came from scumbag and leave Nato post in Great Britain alone.
This fucker is trying to weaken National Security by pouring money in his homeland by moving us there farther away from their paymaster Pooty.

[uponit7771]

19. +1, but I don't think legality has anything to do with whether Benedict Donald is able to fire Comey

[anneboleyn]

22. I think it is an attempt to get political cover not a legal reason. Of course it looks totally

contrived.

[uponit7771]

24. +1

[anneboleyn]

20. I think you may be right.

[Kahuna7]

28. Bingo. nt

[leftynyc]

36. That's EXACTLY what I just said

to my sister (who is watching MSNBC and keeping me updated while at work). They want comey gone and know it would look horrendous to fire him.

[asiliveandbreathe]

40. So Nixonian of him - been there, done that -

October 20/'73 - Saturday Night Massacre: Nixon fires Archibald Cox and abolishes the office of the special prosecutor. Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus resign. Pressure for impeachment mounts in Congress.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/timeline.html

[murielm99]

49. Exactly what I said in a thread yesterday.

Firing Comey would be too much like the Saturday Night Massacre. Trump has no sense of history, and probably thinks the Saturday Night Massacre was an Indian uprising or a sports event.

Who knows what trump will do now? I don't think he knows himself.

[Thrill]

21. So let me guess ? He's ok with leaks now

[anneboleyn]

23. So is Trump from what we hear (couldn't help myself sorry). This news is driving me crazy.

[spanone]

25. i'd love to be in the room when he faces his fellow committee members

[randome]

27. Wait a second, does the FBI conduct surveillance on foreign agents? Thought that was the NSA.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]

[AngryAmish]

39. FBI is on US soil counter-espionage

CIA overseas. NSA is an easedropping outfit that supplies both. FISA warrant needed for FBI counterespionage with US citizens. No warrants needed for inadvertently getting US citizens while monitoring foreigners (business and state-level espionage.). Supposed to strip out US identity while non-warranted intercepts.

Nunes says no stripping and sharing. If so this is felonious. But coming from Nunes the salt must be taken.

[pnwmom]

53. But Nunes said it was legally done. And it is legal to unmask in certain circumstances,

such as when it is necessary to understand the conversation, or when a crime is being committed.

So Nunes is not really helping his team here.

[MFM008]

30. anyone else feel

a constitutional crisis coming??????

[Skittles]

73. I felt it coming on Nov 8

[MFM008]

78. Lol

[hamsterjill]

31. A desperate ploy for the Trump supporters

Let Nunes go for it. This is going to piss Comey off, which will, hopefully motivate Comey to be more interested in any investigation that he undertakes.

[Phoenix61]

32. So he says the info is from a legal FISA warrent

Then he says it was political. How is that even possible? This may be why Comey released the info on Hillary. So when this happened no one could say he was partisan.

[Volaris]

61. I keep saying, Comeys either guilty up to his eyeballs

Or he's Barrack Obamas version of Severus Snape.

[NotThisTime]

34. This is a set up for firing Comey for cause

[Jarqui]

42. He "doth protest too much, methinks."

(This scandal is starting to take some form of a grand Shakespearean tragedy)

[wryter2000]

57. Thanks for getting the quote right

People usually say "Methinks she doth protest too much."

[Jarqui]

60. It's been about 47 years since I studied that play

I had to look it up to make sure I was getting it right.

As I vaguely recall, I think we've kind of deviated from the original proper meaning so your applause may well be more than I deserve. But Trump's such an ignoramus, he couldn't tell even if Nunes dropped by to try and explain it! So I figure that kind of evens it out

[wryter2000]

71. We have deviated

But it's still nice to hear it right from time to time.

I still love to quote "Let them eat cake," even though Marie Antionette never said that.

[abchar17]

43. Back in December

When Obama ordered a complete investigation into the Russia hacks back in December, I would assume they'd likely end up investigating Trump team, since they were involved so heavily with Russia and possibly colluding. This is probably what Nunes is uncovering? And maybe what Trump was referring to? Totally legal on Obama's part.

[LiberalLovinLug]

48. I'm not sure if Comey is feeling guilty now about releasing the "new" Hillary emails

And is trying to make up for it when he realized that he may be one of the most responsible for Trumps ascension.

or if this is a game of setting up an "investigation" to make it look thorough and official but pre-determining it already to serve his GOP masters.

[yardwork]

50. This does remind me of Watergate.

[MFM008]

54. Me2

And I'm old enough to have watched the hearings.

[yardwork]

56. Me too.

[LeftInTX]

69. The confusion..........

I remember getting confused to the point that I lost interest in Watergate. It seemed like everyone was pointing the finger at everyone else. I was 16-17.

Still this Nunes thing is confusing and weird and baffling and makes me scratch my head.

[wryter2000]

72. I watched Watergate

This is Watergate on steroids.

OTOH, back then, the Republican party had some integrity.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

55. If Comey is discredited

then we ought realize his stunt with Hillary was political too. But wait, why would he do that to her and then this to him? Maybe Comey doesn't like either one? It's so bizarre.............

[tblue37]

58. Keep talking, Nunes. Cover yourself in shame and, one hopes, with criminal complicity. nt

[NewRedDawn]

62. My guess Russia provided

this information that Nonsense is running with.

[DefenseLawyer]

63. For a bunch of incompetent clowns, it was a pretty good plan.

1. Trump gets wind of the fact that a lot of the Russians he and his boys were chatting up we being tapped by the NSA, et al; 2. Trump makes the outrageous and false claim that Obama "tapped his wires"; 3. Now Nunes can come out and acknowledge the recordings, but instead of focusing on what was said, it is "vindication" of Trump's lie and, naturally, 4. when the recordings do surface, Trump supporters everywhere will talk only about sending President Obama to prison, worse than Nixon, blah blah blah and not about the fact that Trump is in bed with Putin and the Russian mob.
I don't think it's going to work, mind you, but still, it's still better than Plan B: Packing up the White House and heading to Moscow, Edward Snowden style. Credit where credit is due to Trump and his band of criminals.

[jalan48]

64. This is bad news for our Democracy if Trump, Nunes and others can get away with this.

[Caliman73]

66. I don't think that they want to be jabbing at the FBI.

No that I am a huge fan of our intelligence apparatus. They have a rather shady history. However, I think it very unwise of Nunes and the Republicans to try to intimidate the agency that probably knows where Jimmy Hoffa is buried.

[Demsrule86]

68. Is Comey involved? Was this a setup?

[Warren DeMontague]

74. how can you be the chair of an investigation when you don't accept the principle

of investigating that which the thing is focused on the first place?

[herding cats]

76. Easy answer.

You can't.

Now, let's see how long it takes Republicans in power to admit this simple fact.

[herding cats]

75. It's also possible Nunes is running scared.

He's wrapped up in Trump's cabinet picks as a part of his transition team. If he saw people he could be liked to looking guilty as fuck he may have lost it and overreact.

What I'm saying is I don't think he's clean enough in all this to not be looking out for himself here.

[Hekate]

77. I wonder if Comey has any regrets about stabbing Hillary in the back last year? nt

[VOX]

83. Death Cult member defends his master.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

87. Carazzzzzzzy!