Devin Nunes got the cold shoulder on his "curious" trip to see intelligence officials in London.

[pnwmom]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/devin-nuness-curious-trip-to-london/568699/

According to two people familiar with his trip across the pond who requested anonymity to discuss the chairman’s travels, Devin Nunes, a California Republican, was investigating, among other things, Steele’s own service record and whether British authorities had known about his repeated contact with a U.S. Justice Department official named Bruce Ohr. To that end, Nunes requested meetings with the heads of three different British agencies—MI5, MI6, and the Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. (Steele was an MI6 agent until a decade ago, and GCHQ, the United Kingdom’s equivalent of the National Security Agency, was the first foreign-intelligence agency to pick up contacts between Trump associates and Russian agents in 2015, according to The Guardian.)

A U.K. security official, speaking on background, said “it is normal for U.K. intelligence agencies to have meetings with the chairman and members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.” But those meetings did not pan out—Nunes came away meeting only with the U.K.’s deputy national-security adviser, Madeleine Alessandri. The people familiar with his trip told me that officials at MI6, MI5, and GCHQ were wary of entertaining Nunes out of fear that he was “trying to stir up a controversy.” Spokespeople for Alessandri and Nunes did not return requests for comment, and neither did the press offices for MI5 and MI6. GCHQ declined to comment.

Steele, who authored a collection of memos sourced to Kremlin and campaign insiders alleging a conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and Moscow to win the 2016 election, has been a fixation for Nunes ever since the document was published slightly more than two weeks before Trump’s inauguration. Last summer, two of Nunes’s staffers, Kash Patel and Doug Presley, traveled to London—without the knowledge of the U.S. Embassy or British government—in search of Steele, whose lawyer denied the staffers access to his client. This time, Nunes sought a work-around, I’m told. His trip to London at such a precarious moment for the president, and the intelligence agencies’ decision to decline him a meeting, is emblematic of the political island on which Nunes finds himself—along with a handful of other Trump allies in Congress and the media—as he continues his search for wrongdoing by the Justice Department.

[saidsimplesimon]

1. Nunes is a Russian asset, imo

California, any way you can defeat this cancer on your reputation?

[Adsos Letter]

4. It seems unlikely to me, even with a heavy turnout.

Our 22nd Congressional District is a heavily Red area. Nunes took 67.6% of the vote in the 2016 election, and of the total votes cast (234,966) over twice as many went to Nunes over the Democrat, Campos (158,755 to 76,211). Source: https://ballotpedia.org/California%27s_22nd_Congressional_District

As much as I want to see Janz win, he's facing a serious uphill battle.

Nunes' narrowest margin of victory in the 22nd was in California's 22nd Congressional District elections, 2012, when he defeated Otto Lee (D) by a 23.8 percent margin. His widest margin of victory was his 44 percent margin over Louie Campos (D) in 2016. https://ballotpedia.org/Devin_Nunes

Plus, Nunes' war chest is considerably larger.

Our state has its share of right-wingers, especially in the Central Valley and Sierra foothills, and Tulare and Fresno Counties fall into that category (not to mention Orange County, Shasta County, Siskiyou County etc.).

Still: Go Janz!

[saidsimplesimon]

5. I understand the demographics.

Criminal charges and removal from office is also a pipe dream in my mind.

[Sneederbunk]

2. His reputation preceded him. The Brits do not suffer fools gladly.

[tanyev]

3. They saw that pillock coming from miles away.

[TomSlick]

8. Thank you for the new word.

[harumph]

6. why should they talk to him?

He's a nobody. They don't owe him shit.

[pnwmom]

7. It is actually the norm, according to the article.

it is normal for U.K. intelligence agencies to have meetings with the chairman and members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.”

But they made an exception for Nunes. That's telling.