Devin Nunes Vanished the Night Before He Made Trump Surveillance Claims

[UpInArms]

Source: Daily Beast

Hours before the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee announced his shocking claims about surveillance of the Trump transition team on Wednesday morning, he practically disappeared.

Rep. Devin Nunes was traveling with a senior committee staffer in an Uber on Tuesday evening when he received a communication on his phone, three committee officials and a former national security official with ties to the committee told The Daily Beast. After the message, Nunes left the car abruptly, leaving his own staffer in the dark about his whereabouts.

By the next morning, Nunes hastily announced a press conference. His own aides, up to the most senior level, did not know what their boss planned to say next. Nunes’ choice to keep senior staff out of the loop was highly unusual.

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Asked to explain why he decided to brief the president, Nunes told Sean Hannity on Thursday he had done so because the information concerned him and that the president was receiving criticism from the press.



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[videohead5]

1. Blackmail?

I just wonder if Trump has something he is blackmailing Nunes with.

[leanforward]

2. Sounds to me someone has him by

the short hairs. My last reference this way was the russians hold on pRezident dRumpf.

[ThatOtherPerson]

3. that is very strange, isn't it?

But we live in very strange times.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Nunes in on the Turkey meeting. "President was receiving criticism from the press". Never before?

Nunes was at the January breakfast meeting with Flynn and the Turkish officials. I'm pretty sure that was the one where Flynn and the Turks were proposing to kidnap the religious figure to hand him over to Turkey, without due process or legalities.

[colbertforpresident]

5. Bingo

he is involved.

[red dog 1]

6. That would explain it

[red dog 1]

7. K&R...Thanks for posting

Nunes has some "splainin" to do!

[FailureToCommunicate]

8. Man this sounds like it's right out of the plot of "Designated Survivor" TV show

[Kingofalldems]

9. Flynn.

[WheelWalker]

10. That's my guess. The phone call advised him that Flynn had flipped, and that he's

spilled the beans about Gulen (NOT, surveillance re: Russia), and Nunes knows he himself is dirty in that ring.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

11. Wine distributorship in Russia and...

... underage prostitutes are in the mix. Nune's has $51,000 invested in this winery, Alpha Omega. Russia is one of TWO countries to have distributorships for this winery.


https://www.winebusiness.com/news/?go=getArticle&dataid=176634

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

12. And...

"First, according to his 2014 financial disclosure report and reported in the LA Times, nearly all of Devin Nunes’ entire net worth of about $51,000 is apparently tied up in an investment in the Alpha Omega WInery of St. Helena, CA."


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/24/1646793/-Devin-Nunes-A-Russian-Connection-Too

[OnDoutside]

13. How could someone be in Congress and only have 51k ?

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

14. I wondered about that too...

... I am sure more information is forthcoming. (humming Jeopardy theme)

[OnDoutside]

15. I had a look at his campaign cash on hand and it's

About $3m. He's been in Congress for over a decade. It really seems odd to me.

[Sgent]

18. How could someone making as much money

as a congressman, have only 51k, and then be put on the Gang of Eight?

WTH? Was there any type of security clearance done on him? He's got the highest security clearance (by law) in the country, the same as the president's, and he's subject to bribery because he's amassed a great fortune of 51k?

Just a reminder, the gang of 8 is:

Speaker & Minority Leader
H Intelligence Chair & Ranking Member
Senate Maj Leader & Ranking Member
S Intelligence Chair & Ranking Member

They, plus the President, are the only 9 people who have access to sources and methods, and are deemed to have need to know about our entire defense and intelligence apparatus, counter-intelligence, anything really....

[Delphinus]

19. Thank you for that list.

I had forgotten.

[OnDoutside]

20. I just checked some others

Rubio has $371K
McConnell has $22m (He had less than $1m in 2004 - that was a bit of good fortune for a public servant, wasn't it ?)
Schiff has $1.74m
Sanders $436K
Gowdy $167K
Ellison $25K
John Lewis $10K
Andre Carson MINUS $15K

Something's not right with these amounts

http://members-of-congress.insidegov.com/

[Xipe Totec]

16. I think Nunes should stay at the House Intelligence Committee - As a witness nt

[riversedge]

17. He will resign before that happens.

[Turbineguy]

21. A meeting with

the "Cultural Attache" at the Russian Embassy?