House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes lashed out at Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week in a letter where he threatened Sessions with a public grilling if he doesn't produce documents about the Russia dossier to the House intelligence committee.
Nunes, who despite stepping aside from directing the House Russia investigation has been leading his own separate investigation, accused Sessions and the FBI of stonewalling him repeatedly in a September 1 letter obtained by CNN. In the letter, he threatened to drag Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray before the committee for a public grilling and hold them in contempt of Congress -- a jailable offense -- if they don't hand over the documents.
The House intelligence committee issued a pair of subpoenas last month seeking documentation of whether the FBI or Justice Department used material from the dossier compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele as part of the federal investigation into possible collusion between the campaign of President Donald Trump and the Kremlin. Nunes also writes that he subpoenaed to discover whether information from the Russia dossier was used in the crafting of applications to conduct surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
In the letter, which was signed only by Nunes and no other members of the House intelligence committee, Nunes explained that he was extending the deadline for responding to the subpoenas to September 14. But he capped it off with a sharp threat.
"If all responsive documents are not produced by the revised deadline, the Attorney General and Director of the FBI (Christopher Wray) shall appear before the committee at 9 a.m. on September 14, 2017 in room HVC-210 of the US Capitol during an open hearing, to explain under oath DOJ's and FBI's unwillingness or inability to comply in full with the subpoenas issued on August 24," Nunes wrote.
Nunes closed out his letter by threatening to hold Sessions in contempt of Congress which could result in a year in jail.
So to be clear a Congressman who is really no longer directly involved with the House Russia investigation is threatening the sitting Attorney General with prison if he does not produce evidence that he probably should not have access to in the first place.
Remember Nunes also sent two House staffers to London to ambush Steele and convince him to testify before their bullshit committee.
We know that Mueller's team has seen the evidence and we have been told that both the Senate and House Judiciary committees have seen the evidence, so if Nunes has not seen the evidence it is probably because everybody knows that he will go running to warn Donald Trump about it the minute that he does see the evidence.
Though one would think that if Sessions is in possession of the evidence from the dossier that Trump probably already knows what is in it.
So is this just a case of Nunes feeling left out, or is this something a little more nefarious perhaps?
Simply put, I don't trust this guy.
The reich wing waterass Nunes is obviously in a panic as he's also up to his nutsak insofar as also being involved/colluding with the russians ... hope they all get hung for treason ..
ReplyDeleteTrying to be relevant. I'd say cannot be trusted!
ReplyDeleteA true showboat , lives in a fantasy world, is a wannabe. Probably wears a trench coat like the pink panther. Inspector Cousteau!
Go away nunes you bother me.
2:49, don't you mean Clouseau. Cousteau was the underwater researcher.
DeleteWell this "presidency" is certainly treading water.
DeleteI clearly meant Clouseau. Good catch!
DeleteThat makes us Commissioner Dreyfus, complete with eye twitch
DeleteI swear, he is so GD tone deaf, he is oblivious to how transparent he is. Unfortunately, this is true of many of our politicians today. All I can do is clap. He is his own worst enemy.
ReplyDeleteJust another whore.
GeorgiaPeach
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/09/trumps-russia-scandal-lawyer-says-hes-one-of-the-adults-in-the-white-house/
ReplyDelete"put on the White House payroll by Trump in July. His mission: to serve as counsel handling matters related to the assorted Russia investigations under way. The hiring of Cobb, a distant relative of the famous baseball player whose name he shares, was widely regarded as an acknowledgement that White House counsel Don McGahn, a specialist in elections and fundraising law, was not equipped to deal with the expanding Russia scandal,"He signed up Cobb, who boasts extensive criminal defense expertise, days after the news hit that Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort—Trump’s closest advisers—had met privately in June 2016 with a Kremlin emissary"on Tuesday night, in a combative email exchange with a stranger, Cobb explained why he took the job and stated that he had given up millions of dollars in annual income to join the Trump White House. He also noted he might not hold the job for long."
"Jetton was not sympathetic. He shot back:
Omg I’m so sorry that you had to give up your cush job with tasty perks to crush the hopes and dreams of everyday Americans by figuring out technicalities to try to get your idiot boss out of his crimes and treasons. There is no vioilin small enough to play the rightful tune that captures the correct amount of sorrow that I feel for you right now. How will your children eat without that 4 million coming in each year? Perhaps Manafort can lend you some dough. Sycophant."
"Cobb responded, “Not sure that’s true but can say assertively the more adults in the room will be better. Me and Kelly among others. Over and out.”
"In a statement, Jetton expressed no sympathy for Cobb:
Just as Mr. Cobb feels obligated by some warped sense of duty to the three pillars of government to add rocket fuel to Tump’s bastardized version of democracy, it’s our duty as citizen to speak up and voice our displeasure at every chance we get."
"if you are standing besides these monsters you are one of them."
I thought Nunes not only quit the committee but was going to resign his position too. Why is he still around?
ReplyDeletethat was the scum Chaffetz who landed at FAUX SPEW.
DeletedoG, it's like they're all alike I can't keep them apart any more.
DeleteI don't trust that weasel Nunes. I smell something in favor of Trump.
ReplyDeleteI guess "recusal" doesn't mean what he thinks it does.
ReplyDeleteGo away Nunes, this is nunya-bizniz.
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailybeast.com/russians-flock-to-trump-properties-to-give-birth-to-us-citizens