Sunday, April 22, 2018

Devin Nunes is investigating the State Department because he cannot follow a simple narrative.

Courtesy of Fox Business: 

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said Sunday his review of FBI and Justice Department “electronic communication” documents shows no intelligence was used to begin the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. 

“We now know that there was no official intelligence that was used to start this investigation. We know that Sidney Blumenthal and others were pushing information into the State Department. So we’re trying to piece all that together and that’s why we continue to look at the State Department,” Nunes told Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.” 

The California Republican said he is now investigating the State Department due to signs of “major irregularities,” in an effort to figure out how information about former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos – who reportedly met with a foreign policy expert and Cambridge professor with connections to the CIA and Britain’s MI6 in London in 2016 – was obtained by the FBI. 

So if Nunes would bother reading the New York Times he would know exactly how the FBI found out about Papadopoulos connections with the Russian Cambridge professor:

During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia’s top diplomat in Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton. 

About three weeks earlier, Mr. Papadopoulos had been told that Moscow had thousands of emails that would embarrass Mrs. Clinton, apparently stolen in an effort to try to damage her campaign. 

Exactly how much Mr. Papadopoulos said that night at the Kensington Wine Rooms with the Australian, Alexander Downer, is unclear. But two months later, when leaked Democratic emails began appearing online, Australian officials passed the information about Mr. Papadopoulos to their American counterparts, according to four current and former American and foreign officials with direct knowledge of the Australians’ role. 

Okay so yes there was "official intelligence" communicated from the Australian intelligence services to our own FBI.

And as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Nunes HAS to know this.

So WTF?

Yesterday Nunes also suggested the DNC's decision to sue the Trump Campaign, the Russians, and Wikileaks was nothing more than a fundraising scheme, and that they should actually be suing themselves.

Courtesy of the Washington Examiner:  

"This is nothing more than a scam to keep their base fired up," Nunes, who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said during an interview Saturday with Fox News' Judge Jeanine Pirro.

"This is about the extreme left, the socialist left, wanting to never accept that the president of the United States was rightfully and duly elected, carried a number of states that nobody expected him to carry," the congressman said. "So this is a fundraising scheme. It's nothing more, nothing less. It's a fundraising scheme because the Democrats are out of money, and that's what this is about."

The lawsuit Nunes was asked to comment on alleges a conspiracy between the trio to disrupt the 2016 presidential campaign in order to get Donald Trump elected. The DNC's complaint was filed Friday in a federal district court in Manhattan, N.Y. 

Nunes started out his answer quipping, "Well, they ought to be suing themselves." 

"They are the ones that colluded with the Russians. So they're the ones that have an FEC violation, they didn't report that they were paying Fusion GPS, right? That they were digging up dirt on the trump campaign. None of that was reported, so they ought to be suing themselves. This is nothing more than a scam to keep their base fired up."

The "extreme left?"

The "socialist left?"

If that he who is identifying as those never wanting to accept Donald Trump as their president then I think that about 70% of the country is now identified as the "extreme socialist left."

And if true that sounds pretty good for the Democrats heading into the 2018 election cycle.

22 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:56 PM

    Wow! Ninny Nunes is really being objective and non-partisan in his role on the Intelligence committee, isn't he?

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    1. Anonymous2:26 PM

      LEFT LEFT LEFT!
      When they're caught, and "House Intelligence" is an oxymoron.

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  2. Anonymous1:58 PM

    OT: This is an interesting story about how this mass murderer got his guns back. Reminds me of a recent story up in Alaska. Some family wher the kid attacked the dad and took daddy's gun, but now all his guns have been confiscated - wonder if his daddy has them, too? What was the name again? Pukin? Punkin? Pathetics? ah well, whatever. Nobody knwos them anyway. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/deadly-waffle-house-shooting_us_5adc7adce4b009869bfa268e

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  3. Anonymous3:15 PM

    This guy is a few synapses short of a functioning brain.

    More wasted taxes dollars on his stupid conspiracy theories, they should start taxing them and require they pay back our wasted money.

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  4. I have to admit that I am not very happy with the headline on this post.

    I know what I was trying to say, but I don't think I said it very clearly.

    My point was that Devin Nunes knows exactly how the FBI got the information that convinced them to start this investigation, and that he is just playing dumb so that he can have a reason to investigate the Justice Department in order to brush them back a little from the Russia collusion investigation.

    I think I conveyed that in the post, but the headline is sort of...vague.

    Oh well, they can't all be winners.

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    1. Anonymous3:49 PM

      "I meant what you knew." Ten years strong.

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    2. Anonymous6:31 PM

      Soviet Nunes has got to be kicked out this year.

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    3. Anonymous2:36 AM

      Yep Nunes must be removed and charged.

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  5. Anonymous5:42 PM

    Ot:

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/apr/22/michael-cohen-sean-hannity-property-real-estate-ben-carson-hud?CMP=share_btn_tw

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  6. Anonymous5:56 PM

    OT: Avenetti was right about Hannity; there *was* a lot more to come out. A HELL of a lot more:

    '“I’ve said many times on my radio show: I hate the stock market, I prefer real estate.'[AKA, *money laundering*, Sean?]

    'The records link Hannity to a group of shell companies that spent at least $90m on more than 870 homes in seven states over the past decade. The properties range from luxurious mansions to rentals for low-income families....

    ...Dozens of the properties were bought at a discount in 2013, after banks foreclosed on their previous owners for defaulting on mortgages. Before and after then, Hannity sharply criticised Barack Obama for the US foreclosure rate. In January 2016, Hannity said there were “millions more Americans suffering under this president” partly because of foreclosures.

    Hannity, 56, also amassed part of his property collection with support from the US Department for Housing and Urban Development (Hud), a fact he did not disclose when praising Ben Carson, the Hud secretary, on his television show last year.'

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/apr/22/michael-cohen-sean-hannity-property-real-estate-ben-carson-hud?CMP=share_btn_tw

    -Things that make you go 'hmmmmm'...

    -Wonder how Faux News is gonna react to *this* revelation?

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    1. Anonymous2:38 AM

      Just a tip of the swamp iceberg. Before its over there will be a prison full of these trump crooks.

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  7. If we are the "Socialist Left" can they be the "Fascist Right"?

    Because if I have to choose between Fascism and Socialism, I'll choose Socialism.

    Nunes and the Fascists are undermining our Democracy. They are undermining the Department of Justice, the State Department, the FBI, the CIA, even our court systems. They are destroying anything that questions or exposes them, like the media and our educational institutions. They are setting up the "I alone can fix it" tyrannical president model where you either support him fully, with unquestioning loyalty or you are a traitor to the state.

    They are playing a long game. Even if we regain some control, we probably won't be able to keep it long enough to swing the pendulum back the other way. It will continue to swing farther and farther right until it finally rests there and the democracy that *was* the United States of America is gone.

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    1. Anonymous2:42 AM

      We may be the socialist Americans but they are the communist swamp defective genes of hate.

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  8. https://www.yahoo.com/gma/meet-prosecutor-experts-could-robert-mueller-supreme-court-110004538--abc-news-topstories.html

    "Special counsel Robert Mueller built a team of more than a dozen prosecutors to investigate Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election, but experts say one member might best be considered “the closer”: Michael Dreeben.

    “I don’t have many insights into his legal approach except to say there is no human being, on the planet, with more knowledge about federal criminal law than Michael Dreeben, and no one with more expertise than him,” said Leah Litman, a constitutional law professor at University of California at Irvine.

    Dreeben is one of the government’s most venerated and tested Supreme Court specialists. His career at the Office of the Solicitor General, the lawyers who represent the federal government before the high court, spans nearly three decades. He has argued more than 100 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, making him “only the second person to reach that rare milestone this century,” declared Chief Justice John Roberts during the court hearing that marked the occasion."

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    1. Anonymous9:43 PM

      (THREAD) As the Trump-Russia investigation moves into its next stage, America must change the way we think about and talk about the investigation. This *isn't* just a news story anymore, and that means media and non-media alike need a paradigm shift. I hope you'll read and share.

      https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/988170934543618048

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    2. Anonymous8:30 AM

      9:43PM "The new GOP line on Trump may be its best yet: yes, he's an internatonal money launderer whose dirty money has for decades come from Russia; yes, that felonious conspiracy drives his Russia policy as POTUS; but we're not sure you can investigate that, even if DOJ said you could."

      "On January 19th, 2017, The New York Times reported Donald Trump telling the nation that he had never directed any person to make contact with the Russian government or Russian officials. It will be shown that that's exactly what he told Flynn to do after Flynn called Mar-a-Lago"

      "Jessica Drake, an adult-film star, says Stormy Daniels told her twice that she was threatened by someone to stay silent about her alleged affair with Trump. Drake also claims she refused a $10,000 offer to have sex with Trump."<kg

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  9. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mitt-romney-primary_us_5adc8cabe4b089e33c88e78e

    "Mitt Romney failed to secure the Utah Senate Republican nomination outright at a party gathering over the weekend and must run in a June 26 primary."

    "Although Romney accepted Trump’s endorsement, he had attacked him as a “phony” and “fraud” during the 2016 presidential campaign. Romney was especially critical of Trump’s negative rhetoric about immigrants.

    On Saturday, Romney said he’s not ready to commit to endorsing Trump for re-election in 2020, calling that a decision he would make “down the road.”

    “As a person of political experience, if I endorse someone, I’ll want to know what’s in it for Utah and what help would he provide for us on key priorities in Utah,” Romney told CNN.

    “So I’m not a cheap date,” he added."

    Bwa ha ha! Not a cheap date. Did anyone else flash back to that dinner Trump invited Romney to where he made him grovel in hopes of an appointment and then pulled the rug out?

    Yeah, Rmoney can't wait to be a Senator.

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    1. Anonymous8:21 AM

      '1. "There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what ... who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims. ... These are people who pay no income tax. ... and so my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

      Mitt Romney, remarks at private fundraiser, Boca Raton, Fla., May 17

      2. "We took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet (in Massachusetts). I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks?" and they brought us whole binders full of women."

      Mitt Romney, second presidential debate, Hempstead, N.Y., Oct. 16'

      MoreMaN RMonEy

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  10. Anonymous2:32 AM

    Pay close attention to each and every republican that accepts ANYTHING trump or has accepted ANYTHING trump at ANY time at all. That tells you enough to kick them to the curb. Romney sways with the windy bad breath, he and his "YOU" people wife have insulted Americans. The only thing mitt did right was come out on stage and call trump a liar and fraud. But then headed to the whitehouse to kiss ass for a job. To hell with him. I call that a fake.

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  11. Anonymous7:59 AM

    'El Presidente Dipshit Tweets While Melania Makes Giggle Eyes At Obama. A Study In Contrasts!
    "rump spent Sunday bitching on Twitter too, including calling Chuck Todd “Sleepy Eyes” $EE>
    "Only a few of them had classified information, and Comey did not leak those, you know-nothing fuck-rocket.
    (Certain things were retroactively classified, of course.) Also, the man who leaked the FULL James Comey memos to Fox News was Devin Nunes or one of his paste-eating staffers, allegedly.

    The president is also offended by the baseless charge that he, a dignified man, would ever make up juvenile names for his own political appointees:


    Read more at https://wonkette.com/632937/el-presidente-dipshit-tweets-while-melania-makes-giggle-eyes-at-obama-a-study-in-contrasts#HOmviMyRKwL00LJQ.99

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  12. Anonymous12:37 PM

    Hey, Traitor Nunes! What are you gonna do about this new bit of info?

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/flight-records-show-trump-lied-comey-not-spending-night-moscow-miss-universe-pageant/

    'Flight records obtained by Bloomberg suggest that President Donald Trump wasn’t entirely truthful when he twice told then-FBI Director James Comey that he never spent the night in Moscow during the 2013 Miss Universe pageant.

    In their analysis, reporters for Bloomberg Politics found that despite the president’s insistence that he never spent a night in Moscow during the time period in which he allegedly paid Russian prostitutes to urinate on a bed that Barack Obama once slept on, he does appear to have stayed two nights over the weekend of the pageant.'

    -URINE BIG TROUBLE, Trumplethinskin!

    Hahahahahaaaahahahahah!!!1!!!1!!one!!1!!!

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  13. Anonymous1:28 PM

    I think when they all gathered in a deep dark basement to get their fake golden idol off the hook, the Republicans chose Nunes to be the thorn because he knows how to be a consistant pain in the ass. He probably was that nuisance kid once upon a time that got into people's face and got his ass kicked for not taking the hint.
    We have all the Trump players in place. Nunes will keep it up till his eyes bleed. Now that they don't have Hillary's ass to kick around anymore, they are always looking for a new cause to keep gaslighting the democrats. That's what they specialize in.

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