I can't make head nor tail out of what Nunes has done exactly.

[MineralMan]

Can someone link to a thread that explains this without too much extraneous hoopla?

[leftynyc]

1. It's not you

His words are all over the place.

[HipChick]

2. Nevermind Denmark..

Something is really stinking in the WH...Trump et al are a dark cloud across this land

[Vinca]

3. I can't figure out what's going on either.

Amazing. I go about my business for a couple of hours and come back and all hell has broken out again.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

4. I think he's desperately trying to

deflect the story from "Trump admin colluding with Russia" to "Trump admin. being surveilled illegally". He's trying to pivot the story, and he's doing it unilaterally, without approval.

[MFM008]

19. or from the loss

that he may have tomorrow.

[janx]

23. And I think you are right.

It's just hard to tell, initially, from some of the out-of-context posts in GD today.

[underpants]

30. Me too. The RW press wil package this so anything else is FAKE NEWS

This is for their internal use.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

32. But he also acknowledged that the surveillance was legal

but now Trump feels "somewhat vindicated".

[annabanana]

40. He did sound out of breath and panicky. . . n/t

[Thrill]

5. He's scared to use the phone

He had to tell them in person, the FBI has everything. All the conversations. Full on coverup mode now. Destroy all evidence. no more bullshitin. He's telling Trump, we're fucked.

[Renew Deal]

13. Yup, this is the side note.

He couldn't call or email.

[Catherine Vincent]

17. I hope that is the case

[MineralMan]

21. Sounds like Nunes is in panic mode.

People make very bad decisions when they're panicky. I hope that's the case.

Maybe it's all about to blow up in their faces. Hasten the day!

[SummerSnow]

29. GET THE PAPER SHREDDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[underpants]

31. LOL. That's awesome.

[KingCharlemagne]

6. Nunes is trying to insinuate that Trump was right that

Obama really was wiretapping him.

Problem for that lying little fuck Nunes is the timeline: Trump alleged that Obama wiretapped him during the "sacred election season' (October). But TrumpCo associates were picked up incidentally or as named subjects of FISA warrants during November, December and January.

Bottom line:

Obama did NOT wiretap Trump.

TrumpCo Associates may have been the subjects of FISA warrants, in which case those warrants were issued via DUE PROCESS OF LAW.

Nunes in revealing this (despite his lying spin on it) has now divulged classified information without proper authority to do so and is thus criminally liable for it.

How's that?

[Vinca]

12. Thanks for the synopsis. I couldn't make head or tails of it.

[MineralMan]

14. I'm just starting to get a fuzzy picture,

but it seems to be getting clearer. Thanks.

[KingCharlemagne]

20. Never forget that Nunes himself was on

Trump's transition team.

For him to be receiving classified briefings about the FBI investigation when he himself may be a subject of the same investigation simply boggles the mind and screams out for a Special Prosecutor.

I hope Comey and the FBI have the goods on Nunes and that he goes down

[yeoman6987]

53. Everyone is saying he was on trumps team, but last week was the first time I ever heard of him

What position did he have? Must have been very low.

[Kingofalldems]

55. He was on the executive committee of Trump's team, yeoman6987, hardly low level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_transition_of_Donald_Trump#Leadership

Oops.

[Catherine Vincent]

24. Thanks!

[PsychoBabble]

26. Thanks for the clarity ...

Also check out Caroline O and LouiseMensch on Twitter

[pkdu]

27. and @20committee nt

[librechik]

7. damn I was just going to post the same thing!

[randome]

8. He's making the possibility of an independent prosecutor all but a done deal.

Not by choice.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]

[KingCharlemagne]

25. +Infinity - nt

[truebluegreen]

37. A done deal?

Iirc an independent prosecutor has to be appointed by Atty General or Congress. Given that all of the above (those in charge) are shameless cretins, how likely is that?

[randome]

44. Ah, but Sessions is recused from this.

Sure, they are all complicit but public pressure will now be immense. They won't have any choice but to appoint someone and hope he/she doesn't follow the right trails.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]

[spanone]

9. someone gave him info about white house/russia investigation and he ran to trump with it.

[truebluegreen]

57. I know, but that doesn't help.

Congress with R majorities is no better--yesterday at the hearing their laser focus was on leaks, not on cooperation or collusion. No one they agree to appoint will be independent or diligent.

[Renew Deal]

10. Tough to do right now but basically

He received "reports" from a mysterious someone that "came forward." The reports are that there was a FISA warrant against someone. There was incidental collection of people connected to Trump. The names of people were "unmasked" in the report by someone. Nunes went to see Trump. Nunes did not inform Schiff.

Summary: Someone leaked info to Nunes and he went to Trump and the media.

[MineralMan]

16. OK, so Nunes is leaking shit after whining about leaking shit yesterday.

Makes sense, I guess, if you are a Republican. To me, it looks like a panic reaction. If that's the case....BOOM!

[a kennedy]

11. AND WHY THE HELL DIDN'T HE BRIEF THE DEMS ON THE COMMITTEE BEFORE

running to tRump.......and sorry for yelling......

[Glimmer of Hope]

18. I am waiting for Schiff to put him in his place. I bet he is pissed!

[old guy]

22. He's a tRump repub. He don't need no stinkin briefings.

[MFM008]

15. hes hesitating, searching...

or making stuff up along the way.
Simply to give BLOTUS cover for his wiretapping claims.

Does anyone else feel a constitutional crises???

[Warpy]

28. "Hey, look over there! That shiny thing is shinier!"

is about all I'm getting from all Dolt45's flacks these days.

I'm being a bad news junkie, tuning out a lot of it in favor of much more interesting world news.

Nothing here is going to get interesting unless Comey starts to release all the stuff his arse has been clamped on for the last eight months.

[mchill]

33. Nunes was on Transition Team right?

And they were caught up in surveillance - maybe as part of the "unmasked names." He has nothing to lose because he's involved? He's in a very safe Republican district...won his seat by over 70%. Warning Trump et al that they are being surveilled. Confusing the issue of "Obama wiretapping" and giving political cover.

So many possibilities.

[mchill]

34. But he wanted to be seen going to WH

As Brian Williams said, there were plenty of side doors to get into the West Wing. He also lingered for questions. I like how he didn't mention this didn't have anything to do with "Obama wiretapping" tweets until he was asked.a

[Phoenix61]

35. Wouldn't it be funny if they set Nunes up!

If this is nothing but a way to force an independent investigation.

[OldHippieChick]

36. Bottom line for me is that he appears to be working for the WH rather

than the Legislative branch. This isn't just a violation of some protocol, but a breach of ethics and a breach of trust. I am incensed and can only imagine what Pelosi is saying to Ryan at this very moment.

[bigbrother05]

38. Think he's saying "Sure the Trump team was surveilled, but only incidentally and legally"

He's hoping to imply that Trump wasn't wrong about Obama's "tapps", but that it was all innocent conversations as a part of preparing for the election and transition.

My feeling is that these incidental contacts pointed the IC toward a Trump-Russia nexus and they've been digging hard to gather all the evidence they could before leaks force them to raid the WH and issue indictments.

Also, might be a much broader net being cast as they followed where the info led.

[haele]

39. He's shown how arrogantly stupid he is. How provincial and shallow they all are.

They're all such petty mobsters, thinking they're Michael Corleone when in reality, they're a bunch of Fredos.
A bunch of wealthy narcissist Randriods and fellow travelers with way too much money and cleverness, and much too little wisdom. Starting with Adelson, Devos, and Mercer, and going all the way down to the puppets.

Putin isn't really that smart either. He's a clever gangster, but his world still has to be severely constricted for him to be able to operate and have influence. He doesn't operate very well on the World stage, he can't work with anyone; he has to try and ensure everyone else is weak before he can act.

Haele

[annabanana]

41. This is a very cogent synopsis.

I think you have their numbers...

[FakeNoose]

46. Love that reference!

They're all such petty mobsters, thinking they're Michael Corleone when in reality, they're a bunch of Fredos.

So true and yet I hadn't realized it until I read your post.

[KittyWampus]

49. worthy of an OP. well put.

[Gothmog]

42. This is incidential collection

Link to tweet

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.democraticunderground.com%2F10028832751

[LuckyLib]

43. This is a smoke incendiary device -- he's got Donald's back and aside from his personal panic,

he thinks he will be rewarded on the other side of this.

[KittyWampus]

50. He may be rewarded with a favorable cell assignment in jail.

[oldtime dfl_er]

51. Yea

he'll have a nice cell in the West Wing of Sing Sing.

[LuckyLib]

56. A toast to them all being in the same prison.

They can listen to Donald talk endlessly about how great he is and it was all a setup.

[TheBlackAdder]

45. Derpy McDerp though he was helping Trump, while actually implying criminal activity. Oops.

[Ohioblue22]

47. tag .. nunes

[greatauntoftriplets]

48. Added to the coverup, IMHO.

[Kahuna7]

52. Trying to counter the Manafort news lede. nt

[uponit7771]

54. NUNES ANSWERED A QUESTION THAT WAS NEVER ASKED !!!

[McCamy Taylor]

58. He leaked classified info to the target of an investigation before he shared it will his committee.

Making him unfit to head this or any other committee. Censure at the very least. May have opened himself up to criminal investigation or charges. Add Nunes to the list of Republicans that Trump is taking down with him.

How long before Fox starts to speculate that Bill and Hillary Clinton deliberately persuaded Trump to run knowing that he would destroy the Republican Party?