House Intel Republicans plan to wall off their aides from Democratic staffers

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-intel-committee-gop-plan-to-wall-themselves-off-from-democrats-devin-nunes-adam-schiff/

By Olivia Victoria Gazis CBS News February 8, 2018, 7:55 AM
House Intel Republicans plan to wall off their aides from Democratic staffers

Last Updated Feb 8, 2018 8:06 AM EST


In a sign of increasing partisan hostilities, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee plan to construct a wall – a physical partition – separating Republican and Democratic staff members in the committee's secure spaces, according to multiple committee sources. It's expected to happen this spring.

For now, some Republican committee members deny knowing anything about it, while strongly suggesting the division is the brainchild of the committee's chairman, Devin Nunes, R-California.

"I'm not part of that decision," said Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas. "You've got to talk to Devin. I don't know what they're trying to do one way or the other."

"I swear to God I didn't know that," said Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Florida, when asked about the plan. While acknowledging a wall might not be constructive for the committee's work, he said, "The level of trust and the level of everything down there is – it's poison. It's absolute poison down there."

Rooney said one reason for the tension is an erosion of trust, exacerbated by an ongoing ethics investigation into the "entire Republican staff," including "the woman up front that answers the phone" for alleged leaks. He later added that the matter was being handled by the Office of Congressional Ethics.

Bipartisanship, he said, "is gone. It's gone from that committee."

A spokesman for the panel offered no comment on either issue – plans for the wall or the apparent ethics investigation. The Office of Congressional Ethics did not immediately reply to a request for more information.

A spokesman for the minority also declined to comment.

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[sunonmars]

1. absolute disgrace, this is nothing more than a Goebbels propaganda unit now.

[MineralMan]

2. Build the Wall! Build the Wall!

It is Looney Tunes time in the halls of Congress.

[Mr. Ected]

3. Nunes stabbed bipartisanship in the neck and twisted the knife

Let's be clear who caused this intra-committee rift.

[awesomerwb1]

4. Exactly. This is such BS from republicans

It all comes from Nunes.

Please everyone. Get active, help get people informed and help them vote. We need to vote these mo----fu--ers out of office and prosecute them. Schiff is obviously scaring them.