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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) will receive a classified briefing on Thursday related to documents pertaining to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) told The Hill that the committee chairmen "are going to get access" to the documents Nunes has demanded in connection to Mueller's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Fox News reported that the committee chairmen will visit the Justice Department for the the briefing.
The classified briefing reportedly follows a meeting at the White House on Tuesday between Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, his deputy and White House chief of staff John Kelly.
However, the Justice Department has been hesitant to comply with his request, warning that turning over the material could risk lives
https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/policy/national-security/386998-nunes-gowdy-to-get-classified-briefing-on-mueller-documents%3famp
Anything Nunes gets his traitorous little hands on goes straight to Trump, and from there straight to Putin.
Look for a high level CIA asset to fall out of a window in the near future.
Nunes belongs in Leavenworth.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,096 posts)orangecrush
(19,236 posts)there has been surveillance authorized on Nunes.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)redumbliCONs in Congress, as usual, remain silent.
orangecrush
(19,236 posts)to hang himself.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)I hope so. I am concerned about the damage he may do to the investigations.
Phoenix61
(16,949 posts)feed him false info.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)it to Trump and Company.
orangecrush
(19,236 posts)the question will soon be answered.
Me.
(35,454 posts)we'll see what's what at the end of the day...maybe it's a trap and Nunes will get himself arrested.
orangecrush
(19,236 posts)how desperate Nunes is.
bluestarone
(16,720 posts)I would love to see this Lower than snake bastard get his due!!!!!!!
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)orangecrush
(19,236 posts)I hope so.
riversedge
(69,708 posts)mercuryblues
(14,489 posts)The treason weasels would likely blame him for their leaks.
Me.
(35,454 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Then when he does, throw devin in jail.
orangecrush
(19,236 posts)for high stakes.
IADEMO2004
(5,538 posts)orangecrush
(19,236 posts)if Nunes leaks it, he goes down.
He knows it.
Wonder if the Russians have enough on him to make him risk trying it?
kacekwl
(6,993 posts)Lock them both up , Bingo.
wonkwest
(463 posts)I'd say we should probably start warning people of defenestration, but Trump probably thinks it's a sex act.
orangecrush
(19,236 posts)JDC
(10,081 posts)It is a sad state of affairs when I am rooting for Gowdy to be setting Nunes up.
Gowdy, although a snake of the highest order, seems to have found a little religion on his way out the door. He seems to be dsgusted with Nunes when i've caught his interviews. Maybe he wants to tank him. Or maybe he is still a weasel. Probably the later.
orangecrush
(19,236 posts)only too far fetched.
JDC
(10,081 posts)That trips over his own obvious stupidity.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)We are dependent on Gowdy now to restrain Nunes. I cannot read Gowdy anymore, so this could get interesting very quickly.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Link to tweet
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Here, if you can possibly get this full article from NYTimes, do read it.
I had no idea what Nunes really was about until this.
It actually gave me chills & Devin Nunes has NO Business Being Given ANY INFO From Mueller's Investigation
This is a dangerous move, & Nunes involvement in Portugal is just more proof.
He is fking crazy.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/magazine/how-devin-nunes-turned-the-house-intelligence-committee-inside-out.html
Here's a snip of the rather lengthy read:
I'll post as much of it that pertains to Portugal & hope to include how obsessed Nunes was with Intel in that region.
Thus the question as to This Suicide and Nunes hands in any of it.
This is a long SNIP, I realize, but pay attention to the final sentences.
The chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee is one of the most plum assignments on Capitol Hill. Its holder is a member of the Gang of Eight party leaders of both houses of Congress and the top Democrat and Republican on the Intelligence Committees and is therefore privy to Americas most sensitive national security secrets.
As chairman, Nunes now had the power to pursue any number of foreign policy issues from defeating ISIS to containing Russia to checking Iran. The item that topped his agenda, however, was hardly a geostrategic imperative: He was, according to multiple sources, obsessed with the Azores, the semiautonomous Portuguese archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Nuness fixation on the Azores would come to dominate his initial years as chairman and serve as an object lesson in his intense distrust of the intelligence apparatus that he oversees.
In part, Nunes cared about the Azores for personal reasons. His family traces its heritage to the Azores; his wife has roots there as well. Nunes once wrote that because so many Americans of Portuguese descent came from the islands, there was a unique bond between America and the Azores. But even those dewy sentiments dont seem to explain just how fixated Nunes was on the island territory.
For decades, the most concrete bond between the United States and the Azores was an American military installation on Terceira Island called Lajes Field. During the Cold War, American P-3 planes used Lajes to chase Soviet submarines all over the Atlantic; it also served as a fueling station for cargo planes and fighter jets en route from the United States to military installations in Europe and the Middle East.
But the end of the Cold War and technological advances brought an end to Lajess strategic importance.
The United States no longer needed to worry as much about maritime supremacy in the Atlantic. Cargo planes and fighter jets had sufficient flying ranges that they no longer needed to make as many stops to refuel.
Lajes was a natural target for cutbacks, and in 2012, the Air Force announced that it planned to scale back its presence there, ultimately reducing its head count to around 165 from 650.
Even before he was Intelligence Committee chairman, Nunes tried to fight the cuts. He proposed locating an Air Force drone base at Lajes that could be used to target Islamic militants in Northern Africa.
He introduced a bill to move the militarys Africa Command from Stuttgart, Germany, back to the continental United States with the provision that Lajes be made Africoms forward operating base. He suggested making Lajes a training facility for F-16 pilots. None of the ideas were deemed practical.
More controversial, according to two former government officials, Nunes tried to use his junior perch on the Intelligence Committee to install a National Security Agency listening post at Lajes. It was not a natural fit for the agency, largely because Portugal is not part of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, in which Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States share signals intelligence. And although Portugal and the United States are allies, the American intelligence community doesnt fully trust its Portuguese counterpart.
(Theres an old saying among spies: There are no friendly intelligence services; even allies gather information on one another for leverage should they need it.) Nor was the N.S.A. confident that Portugal had the type of counterintelligence controls to protect American secrets.
According to these former government officials, Nunes pressed Rogers to insert a provision into legislation that would require the N.S.A. to put a listening post at Lajes. Rogers refused.
When Nunes wouldnt relent, Rogers arranged for Nunes to make his case directly to officials from the C.I.A., the N.S.A. and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. They also rejected the idea.
Once he became chairman, Nunes unveiled a new proposal for Lajes: making it the home of the Joint Intelligence Analysis Complex (JIAC), which included a huge new intelligence fusion center for the United States and its NATO allies.
But the Pentagon was already planning to build the JIAC at the Croughton Royal Air Force base near London. Not only was Croughton deemed to be the ideal location for the complex, but Lajes was also singularly ill equipped for the job. The bases housing and facilities would need to be expanded, and perhaps more crucial, the undersea communications cables connecting Terceira to Europe and the United States were not sufficiently robust, meaning new ones would have to be laid.
Although Nunes claimed that locating the JIAC at Lajes instead of Croughton would save the Pentagon $35 million a year because of the lower cost of living in the Azores and other efficiencies there, the Pentagon estimated that the infrastructure improvements needed at Lajes would cost $1.3 billion more than those at Croughton. (Nunes would later accuse the Defense Department of inflating its cost estimates and asked its inspector general to investigate; the inspector generals report showed that the Pentagons budget projections were far more accurate than Nuness.)
And, cost aside, there was still the fact that Lajes is on an island in the middle of the Atlantic, making it inconvenient for many NATO allies. Nunes liked to call the Azores the Hawaii of the Atlantic Ocean, only closer to Americas homeland. But Hawaii, of course, has the advantage of being part of America.
And as James Clapper, then the director of national intelligence, told Nunes at one Intelligence Committee hearing: In Hawaii, there are high schools, and there are medical facilities, and there are PXs and commissaries.
And thats kind of lacking right now in Lajes. NATOs military commander at the time, Gen. Philip Breedlove of the Air Force, told National Review that putting the JIAC at Lajes would not make financial, strategic or operational sense.
Nunes persisted. In May 2015, he led a congressional delegation to Lajes.
The visit got off to a rough start when the delegations plane had to abort its landing attempt at Lajes because of high winds a not-uncommon occurrence there and divert to a landing field on another island 165 miles away. After finally making it to the base, Nunes and the delegation toured the facilities to assess their suitability for the JIAC. It wasnt a fact-gathering visit, says a government official who was at Lajes during the delegations visit. They had their opinions, and they were looking to find justification for them.
That evening, the Azorean president, Vasco Cordeiro, hosted a dinner in honor of Nunes and his fellow congressmen.
A number of senior Portuguese government officials, including the foreign minister, were also in attendance.
According to an American official who was at the dinner, Nunes made a toast in which he committed to finding a solution that would not only please the United States but also get the Portuguese everything they wanted.
As the evening went on, Nuness congressional colleagues made their own toasts echoing his sentiments. It was like a fraternity event where everyone was pledging their loyalty to that mission, the American official recalls.
Seemingly every time American military or intelligence officials would note an obstacle to Lajess hosting the JIAC, Nunes would dismiss it as either a red herring or, worse, a manufactured excuse. He felt that the reason the Pentagon wasnt willing to engage on this issue was that the generals didnt want to give up their lifestyles of being close to London or in Germany, the government official says.
Jim Townsend, who as President Obamas deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and NATO policy was the Pentagons point person on Lajes, says of Nunes, He looked on this almost from a paranoid perspective, like we were out to get him.
In the end, Nunes did not get his way:
The JIAC is still planned for Croughton, and the American presence at Lajes has been drastically reduced.
But Nunes created so much rancor over the issue that some American officials came to question his motives, and even his patriotism. I was having a hard-enough time being beaten up by the Azoreans and the Portuguese, but it was even harder seeing a congressman being in cahoots with them, Townsend says. It was like, Whose team are you on??
A former Pentagon official suspects that during the Lajes negotiations, Nunes was making the Portuguese privy to things they should not have known. We would have a conversation about some proprietary matters with Nunes, this official says, and then the next day, somehow, Portugal knew some of that.
Link to tweet
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orangecrush
(19,236 posts)Thank you for this information!
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)He's clearly in with Trump & Russia but after reading this article, Nunes has ties to something/someone else too.
Creepy as f.
riversedge
(69,708 posts)reading this--months ago---this is a main reason why Nunes hates anything Obama--as Nune's dream of making something out of his ancestral islands got the boot from Obama Administration IMHO.
Freethinker65
(9,928 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Dangerously crazy
Me.
(35,454 posts)he has already tripped up several times, odds are a big fall is in his future. And this is why we need to take back the House and when we do, I wonder if an investigation into Nunes can be opened. Let him be subpoenaed.
orangecrush
(19,236 posts)We will see how desperate he is.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)And the corruption around him. Nunes is part of it.
ButSeeYa
(273 posts)I thought Rosenstein declared that Justice Dept. could not be extorted.
riversedge
(69,708 posts)how I am feeling.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)bluestarone
(16,720 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)orangecrush
(19,236 posts)NBachers
(16,998 posts)samnsara
(17,569 posts)cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)and that there is nothing they can do about it.
Nunes, Gowdy, Trump - they all already know how bad it is, now it is about how much Mueller knows, and he knows more than they think.
If anything, maybe they'll see how bad it is and start handing in resignations or be willing to cooperate so they don't spend the rest of their lives in jail. I don't see how this can be a bad thing at all.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)and try to damage the investigation. Or it will tip them off about how they can further obstruct things.
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)They just don't know if Mueller knows it or not. Now they will know and once Mueller knows they will know their goose is cooked.
Takket
(21,421 posts)drray23
(7,587 posts)With some different doctored information planted in each file . They then sit and see if it gets leaked and who did it..
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Duppers
(28,094 posts)oasis
(49,150 posts)He's not savvy enough to get through the interview unscathed. He's the perfect asshole for Mueller to trap while he sits at the table with a smirk and a false sense of security.
BootinUp
(46,924 posts)soul for 2 bits?
triron
(21,914 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,009 posts)That only they will get to see, and then have a pool for how many hours before it leaks.
H2O Man
(73,308 posts)Nunes is, at very best, only marginally more intelligent than Michael Cohen. Thus, he will soon be facing a similar fate.
orangecrush
(19,236 posts)It looks that way.
He has been transparent from square one.