Googling Nunes..he seems to already have it out for the US intel community
He was fighting to have ALL of the intel resources sent to a Portuguese island instead of the UK...and many have said it's because his family still has ties there and he is idolized in his family's homeland. Once he became head of the committee he thought he could have more sway even though layers and layers of the intel community and Pentagon told him HELL NO!
Notice the part where the military/intel people told him one of the pro's of having the center in the UK was it would be more effective in confronting (among other things) RUSSIAN AGGRESSION.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421842/devin-nunes-pentagon-fight-lajes-air-force-base
After months of wrangling with the Defense Department, Nunes and his fellow lawmakers had come to Lajes last May to urge American officials to reverse a planned downsizing of the base. The lawmakers wanted Pentagon officials to instead move a massive, strategically vital intelligence center planned for the United Kingdom to the isolated mid-Atlantic base. The officials objected, citing a cost increase of $1.2 billion and serious operational and logistical concerns, including the base’s single runway and the area’s inclement weather, which the congressmen had experienced just the day before.
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The incident was another skirmish in the increasingly nasty war between Nunes and his allies in Congress and a group of top Pentagon officials over the fate of the obscure airbase. As chairman of the powerful Intelligence Committee, Nunes has brought the full weight of his influence to bear on the issue, inserting provisions in four separate defense bills that would stop work on the planned U.K. base and accusing the DoD of “lying” about the intelligence complex’s Lajes price tag. Recently, the House Oversight Committee opened an investigation into how the military calculated the estimated cost of basing the project in the Azores.
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After Speaker John Boehner tapped him as House Intelligence chairman in January, Nunes was in a better position to directly challenge the Pentagon. He set his sights on relocating the Joint Intelligence Analysis Center (JIAC), an “intelligence fusion center” that Congress approved for construction at U.K. airbase RAF Croughton. The facility would bring together intelligence analysts from U.S. European Command (EUCOM), AFRICOM, and NATO under one roof, fostering a level of collaboration military commanders say is crucial to confronting Russian aggression and Islamic fundamentalism in Africa. (They’d be working out of a base already brimming with intelligence hardware — Croughton is suspected to be the central hub for NSA data funneled back to the United States.)
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is this? So Portugal first now that Nunes is a "Hero" at home.
