Devin Nunes, targeting Mueller and the FBI, alarms Democrats and some Republicans with his tactics

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Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) arrives for a closed House Republican conference meeting on Capitol Hill on Dec. 19. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters)
By Karoun Demirjian December 31 at 7:00 AM

Rep. Devin Nunes, once sidelined by an ethics inquiry from leading the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe, is reasserting the full authority of his position as chairman just as the GOP appears poised to challenge special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.

The California Republican was cleared in December of allegations he improperly disclosed classified information while accusing the Obama administration of exposing the identities of Trump affiliates on surveillance reports. Since clearing his name, Nunes has stepped up his attacks on Mueller’s team and the law enforcement agencies around it, including convening a group of Intelligence Committee Republicans to draft a likely report on “corruption” among the investigators working for the special counsel.

Republican lawmakers and Fox News question the integrity of the FBI, as special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe intensifies. (Joyce Koh/The Washington Post)

Though Nunes has not officially wrested his panel’s Russia probe back from the Republicans he deputized to run it, the chairman’s reemergence as a combative Trump loyalist has raised alarm among Democrats that the future of the investigation may be clipped short or otherwise undermined. Even some of Nunes’s GOP allies have expressed concern about his tactics, prompting rare public warnings that he should temper his attacks on federal law enforcement..............................................

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/devin-nunes-targeting-mueller-and-the-fbi-alarms-democrats-and-some-republicans-with-his-tactics/2017/12/30/b8181ebc-eb02-11e7-9f92-10a2203f6c8d_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_nunes-752am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.fe33e610ccc2

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A few tweets about this issue:

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@ThePlumLineGS

Dems on the House Intel committee are now saying that @DevinNunes killed their requests to subpoena Sessions, Don Jr and others for follow-up questioning, WaPo reports.

Good @karoun reporting:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/devin-nunes-targeting-mueller-and-the-fbi-alarms-democrats-and-some-republicans-with-his-tactics/2017/12/30/b8181ebc-eb02-11e7-9f92-10a2203f6c8d_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_nunes-752am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.e78807228c60 …




Earlier this month, @RepAdamSchiff told me House Intel Dems wanted to bring back Don Jr to ask about his conversation w/ President Trump about the meeting w/ the Russian lawyer. Schiff's quote is below. Nunes appears to have killed this effort. http://wapo.st/2CgX6D1

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[still_one]

1. I hopo it alarms people in his district, and they send this traitor packing

[pangaia]

27. Come on. You know better than that.

How do you think he gets elected?

[Cary]

28. I will be sending $$ for that!

[riversedge]

2. The whole country should be alarmed. This is yet another example of my opponent @DevinNunes working

Andrew Janz?Verified account @JanzforCongress

The whole country should be alarmed. This is yet another example of my opponent @DevinNunes working for #TrumpRussia instead of the American people. #RemoveNunes -AJ

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[democratisphere]

3. Nunes better back off or risk being charged with obstruction of justice

and more! Another redumbliCON A-hole!

[pangaia]

29. WHo is going to charge him and WHO will prosecute him

and WHO will find him guilty and WHO will throw him in the clink?

Nobody. THAT'S who.


We're finished...

[democratisphere]

32. I remain optimistic.

Mueller has very broad powers despite what the crooked redumbliCONs say or do!

[pangaia]

34. I would say broad power until it is taken away.

And repubs are NOT going to go down without cheating, kicking below the belt, eye gouging...

[democratisphere]

35. When in Rome, we fight like the Romans.

NICE doesn't cut it anymore!

[pangaia]

37. I agree 100%. I just wish more of our reps would get the message

that there ain't no time to waste...

[paleotn]

42. If that's your attitude...

may I suggest immigration?

We're not that far down yet. Defeatism is more than a little counterproductive.

[extvbroadcaster]

4. What does all this Trump boot licking get them?

Nunes does not want to look under rocks. Why? Afraid of what he might find, of course. What doe he owe these Trump gangsters? Shocking. What kind of an American is he?

[PatSeg]

9. I think Nunes is protecting himself,

not Trump. He is hiding something that might come out in an investigation or Trump has something on him. He behaves like a man who is very afraid, he has a cloud hanging over his head.

[crazylikafox]

11. Bingo.

[KPN]

16. I think so too. As I understand it, his

business (wine/vineyard) is financed with Russian money. There's more than meets the eye in all of this.

[Scarsdale]

22. Yes. As I

read about it, it seems he invested most of his ill gotten gains into the vineyards with Russian partners. THIS should be investigated.

[PatSeg]

24. Oh gee,

maybe we could get Trey Gowdy to head an investigative committee!!!

[onetexan]

40. 100% correct, he's implicated so he's doing what he can to protect himself

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Justice is being blindsided. Nunes' name will go down in history as one who...

blocked these ongoing investigations of tRUMP of illegally conspiring w/ foreign agents to seize the presidency of the US.

What does he have to fear (Nunes) you wonder?

Why is it so important for these guys to stop these efforts to continue these investigations? Already people have been charged and have plead guilty in probe associated w/ Mueller, so there is something there.

Hopefully, at the least, once the FBI has hints of illegal criminal behavior from the material provided by Mueller, they'll pursue it relentlessly.

[pangaia]

30. Nobody will ever remember who he was.

[Plucketeer]

6. This meek-mouthed, baby face of a traitor

tries his damnedest to evade meeting with ANYONE in District 22 that doesn't have a fat checkbook. There's a real strong move on - backing an able and motivated challenger, Andrew Janz - to re-acquaint this sack of shit back to the milk stool he's best qualified to work with. Mr. Janz would be more than happy to have anyone with a few bucks to spare, back his run for Nunes' seat. I actually got a HAND WRITTEN Thank You note from Andrew and his wife, Heather, for the $25 bucks I sent them before Xmas. Now, how often does ANY congress hopeful take the time to do that??? I get paid tomorrow. Janz will get another contri from this household. We'd LOVE to support a Rep who doesn't know anyone but the corporate farmers in his district!


Fact is, I think I'll send Devin a cam - pain contribution right now! ---->

[PatSeg]

10. Send him a copy of the hand written

thank you note from Janz, just to make his day.

[riversedge]

13. What a lovely thing for Janz to do. You have a winner there.

[not fooled]

7. Just goes to show

what happens when you put an unqualified partisan hack former dairy farmer in charge of such a complex, politically sensitive matter.

pukes can't govern. And they are traitors. They sold this country out for tax cuts.

[C Moon]

8. The guilty just can't stand the mystery behind the evidence that Mueller has piling up.

I wonder how many of them have been losing sleep each night over Mueller's work.
I hope every god damned one of them has been tossing and turning all night—for months!

[Soylent Henry]

12. Devin's such a GOOD little Обезьяна

("trained monkey" in Russian)

[WhiteTara]

14. Nunes sold our country out for half interest in a vinyard.

How sleazy cheap is that?

[bluestarone]

15. the blood flowing in his veins

IS PURE RUSSIAN BLOOD!!!

[MFM008]

17. Tick tick tick

Tonight at midnight marks the beginning of the end
Of the republicans.
They know it.
Blue state repubes are history.
House is history for them.
Senate may be history.
Tonight when the clock strikes in
2018.

Let the celebration begin.
Count on it.

[pangaia]

31. I wish I were as confident as you are.

I am not. Not one bit.

[yardwork]

18. THIS is why it matters if Democrats have a majority.

If the Democrats had the majority in the House, they would be chairing all these committees. Nunes would have little power. Instead, the Republicabs are in charge and they control all the investigations.

[Turbineguy]

19. Maybe his instructions

have some problems with the translation from Russian.

[LiberalLovinLug]

20. The Witch we are hunting is sending out his 'pretties' to do the job for him

He doesn't want to have to fire Mueller directly (or fire and hire someone that can). So I'm sure they will use whomever and whatever they can that they can then say Trump had nothing to do with it. Nunes is the perfect True Believer to take up the cause.

[calimary]

21. All the more reason to do EVERYTHING WE CAN to take back the House!

Shove him into minority status, in which a DEMOCRAT, like Adam Schiff, is chair of that committee, with subpoena power and the power to set the agenda AND the road map toward IMPEACHMENT.

[Cosmocat]

23. Whatever Putin has on this clown has to involve farm animals and

can't be viewed by children ...

[NBachers]

25. I hate Issa; I hate Rohrbacher; I'm moving Nunes to the top of the list.

This Californian is getting ready to fight all three of these traitor shitheads.

[bluestarone]

26. you have all my blessings from North Dakota

I would love to see you guys get them ALL OUT!

[riversedge]

36. Would be a glorious day to remove all 3 of those vile Reps. Shot for the stars. And good luck.

[TomCADem]

33. Calif. prosecutor will run against Nunes in 2018

Hopefully, his constituents will elect someone who prosecutes crime, rather than obstructs justice.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/330509-calif-prosecutor-announces-run-against-nunes-in-2018

A Democratic prosecutor launched his 2018 campaign on Tuesday, seeking to challenge incumbent Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) in the midterm elections for his 22nd Congressional District seat, according to a Tuesday Fresno Bee report.

Andrew Janz, an attorney who prosecutes violent crimes, criticized Nunes for his connection to President Trump and his controversial decision as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee to brief the White House on its independent investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election.

He said the news about Nunes inspired him to run for the seat.

“I’m not a politician; I’ve never considered running for Congress until recently," he said according to the Bee. "Most of the stuff in local and national media has pushed me to get involved."

[Brother Buzz]

39. Opponent (Andrew Janz) targets Devin Nunes with satire

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[onetexan]

41. LOL love the billboard - he'll be called another 'coffee boy' pretty soon

[GeorgeGist]

38. He's going down.

One can hope.

[Chemisse]

43. Locking

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