Nunes demands public release of Mueller's 'backup and source documentation'
Source: Politico
By KYLE CHENEY 05/31/2019 10:57 PM EDT
Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, called Friday for the public release of all of special counsel Robert Mueller's "backup and source documentation," a call that goes even further than most Democrats' demands for more transparency around Mueller's report.
Though most Republicans in Congress have lambasted Democrats for continuing to demand access to Mueller's underlying files, Nunes (R-Calif.) argued that accessing those documents and making them public would expose Mueller's effort as a "fraud." Democrats say they want the same materials because they'll aid investigations into Mueller's evidence that President Donald Trump repeatedly attempted to obstruct his investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Nunes' argument followed the release by prosecutors of a voicemail left by one of Trump's attorneys in 2017 with a lawyer for Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who became a crucial cooperator for Mueller. The voicemail from Dowd came on the eve of Flynn's decision to abandon a joint defense agreement with Trump and begin working with Mueller. In his report's volume on obstruction of justice, Mueller highlighted excerpts of the voicemail noting that Trump's lawyer, John Dowd, asked for a heads up on any information that "implicates the president" and mentioned Trump's "feelings toward Flynn."
On Friday, Mueller's team released a full transcript of the voicemail on the order of a federal judge. In the fuller transcript, Dowd had indicated he wanted a heads up "not only for the president but for the country."
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/31/nunes-mueller-backup-source-documentation-1349437
jayschool2013
(2,314 posts)According to the GOP, the report that "proved" both "no collusion" and "no obstruction" was "a fraud."
I'm so confused. Can someone get me Winston Smith over at the Ministry of Truth? Poor fellow must be working overtime keeping history up-to-date.
marble falls
(57,395 posts)would happen.
cstanleytech
(26,337 posts)because he realizes with all fawning bootlicking he's been doing to Trump he will probably facing a tough re-election.
srobertss
(261 posts)knowing his request will not be met.
cstanleytech
(26,337 posts)marble falls
(57,395 posts)gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)jcgoldie
(11,656 posts)They are starting to believe their own lies...
still_one
(92,475 posts)propaganda stunt
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)cstanleytech
(26,337 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)Does he have a clue?
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Moo, moo, moo. Go back to something you might know a little bit about. You tried to impede the investigation by sneaking to the WH in the dead of night and were caught!! What was "in it" for you?
atreides1
(16,100 posts)Report: Devin Nunes' family's farm is in northwest Iowa, not California
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/01/devin-nunes-immigration-undocumented-illegal-immigrants-nustar-farms-sibley-iowa-california-esquire/1485010002/
And it seems that the Nunes dairy is located in the same district that is represented by Steve King(R), the racist! A district in which many of the dairy farms employ undocumented workers!!
Lonestarblue
(10,117 posts)Especially sources relating what the Kremlin did. That information is exactly what Putin (and thus Trump has probably asked Nunes to get it) wants so he can execute the CIA moles in his operation. Releasing source information about what happened with people in the Trump orbit should be fine. Horrible as he is, he doesnt have people shoved out of four-story windows or poisonedso far as we know.
shraby
(21,946 posts)It would show his reasoning and the source would probably be Flynn.
mahina
(17,717 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Republicans are building an alternate Steele Dossier of Russian/Democratic Collusion in the last election. Of course its lunacy - but it will form a competing narrative to confuse voters. Being the good Nazi, Nunes is following orders in what will be a major gaslighting operation during the 2020 election cycle.
Your tax dollars at work.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,481 posts)and pick up the orange anus' unauthorized unredacted copy of the Mueller Report and share it with the committee.
mahina
(17,717 posts)No thank you.
Nitram
(22,915 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,970 posts)Weren't they earlier whining that some of the report should not be released because there was some classified material involved?
Guess that doesn't matter now that Putin has full access to America's intelligence services by way of Barr.
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Putin now has a direct line into American intelligence services.
First goal: get the names of the moles in his own gov't.
Now he can get the intell wholesale instead of piecemeal purchases from Jared.
Putting money into Trump was the best investment Vlad ever made.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)You don't get to demand shit!
nwduke
(352 posts)My forehead is getting sore from hitting it with my 🖐 every time the GOP does another imbecilic thing!