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IcyPeas

(21,865 posts) Wed Sep 23, 2020, 05:38 PM Sep 2020

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Trump has named a former House aide to Devin Nunes as Inspector General of the Intelligence Comm

Trump has named a former House aide to Devin Nunes as Inspector General of the Intelligence Community

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Trump has named a former House aide to Devin Nunes as Inspector General of the Intelligence Comm (Original Post) IcyPeas Sep 2020 OP

That's not a fox guarding the hen house. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2020 #1

Ha! soothsayer Sep 2020 #4

O M G! The Fox just set up a stove an a table in the Hen house for better access to the hens progressive nobody Sep 2020 #2

more.... IcyPeas Sep 2020 #3

November 3rd can't come quick enough.... spanone Sep 2020 #8

Better hope he leaves, Trump has completely destroyed our institutions. dem4decades Sep 2020 #10

This is a joke, Mme. Defarge Sep 2020 #5

"Trump named""Putin selected." n/t rzemanfl Sep 2020 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author GoCubsGo Sep 2020 #7

not nunes himself. a former aide to nunes IcyPeas Sep 2020 #9

Yeah. Missd that. GoCubsGo Sep 2020 #12

Another Trump cult loyalist. He is scraping the bottom pwb Sep 2020 #11

I would like to believe that no matter what they do from this day on, it will be irrelevant. 42bambi Sep 2020 #13

This is a very moo-ving story. I'm udderly at a loss for words... abqtommy Sep 2020 #14

except it is an aide, not Nunes himself Celerity Sep 2020 #15

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,683 posts)

1. That's not a fox guarding the hen house.

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Wed Sep 23, 2020, 05:40 PM

Sep 2020

That's Colonel Sanders guarding the hen house.

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)

4. Ha!

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 23, 2020, 05:43 PM

Sep 2020

progressive nobody

(816 posts)

2. O M G! The Fox just set up a stove an a table in the Hen house for better access to the hens

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Wed Sep 23, 2020, 05:42 PM

Sep 2020

IcyPeas

(21,865 posts)

3. more....

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Wed Sep 23, 2020, 05:42 PM

Sep 2020

President Trump on Wednesday announced his intent to nominate National Security Council official Allen Souza, a former aide to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), to serve as the inspector general of the intelligence community.

Why it matters: Trump fired the IC's previous inspector general Michael Atkinson for his handling of a whistleblower complaint about the president's call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Atkinson's decision to turn over the complaint to Congress ultimately led to Trump's impeachment.

The big picture: Trump has sought to purge a number of inspectors general, which serve as internal watchdogs to promote transparency and curb abuses at executive branch agencies.

Nunes, whom Souza worked for on the House Intelligence Committee, is known as a Trump loyalist.
Souza has previously worked as a lawyer at the National Security Agency and served as a special assistant U.S. attorney for the district of Maryland, according to the White House.

https://www.axios.com/trump-intelligence-community-inspector-general-nunes-45792b62-b49f-4dfb-8b1a-61866c1c0335.html

spanone

(135,830 posts)

8. November 3rd can't come quick enough....

Reply to IcyPeas (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 23, 2020, 05:51 PM

Sep 2020

mother f'er

dem4decades

(11,288 posts)

10. Better hope he leaves, Trump has completely destroyed our institutions.

Reply to spanone (Reply #8)

Wed Sep 23, 2020, 05:55 PM

Sep 2020

Mme. Defarge

(8,028 posts)

5. This is a joke,

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Wed Sep 23, 2020, 05:48 PM

Sep 2020

right?

rzemanfl

(29,557 posts)

6. "Trump named""Putin selected." n/t

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Wed Sep 23, 2020, 05:49 PM

Sep 2020

Response to IcyPeas (Original post)

GoCubsGo This message was self-deleted by its author.

IcyPeas

(21,865 posts)

9. not nunes himself. a former aide to nunes

Reply to GoCubsGo (Reply #7)

Wed Sep 23, 2020, 05:52 PM

Sep 2020

GoCubsGo

(32,080 posts)

12. Yeah. Missd that.

Reply to IcyPeas (Reply #9)

Wed Sep 23, 2020, 05:58 PM

Sep 2020

Which is why I just deleted my post.

pwb

(11,261 posts)

11. Another Trump cult loyalist. He is scraping the bottom

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Wed Sep 23, 2020, 05:55 PM

Sep 2020

for people.

42bambi

(1,753 posts)

13. I would like to believe that no matter what they do from this day on, it will be irrelevant.

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Wed Sep 23, 2020, 06:40 PM

Sep 2020

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

14. This is a very moo-ving story. I'm udderly at a loss for words...

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Wed Sep 23, 2020, 07:24 PM

Sep 2020

Celerity

(43,339 posts)

15. except it is an aide, not Nunes himself

Reply to abqtommy (Reply #14)

Wed Sep 23, 2020, 07:28 PM

Sep 2020

baby moo?

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