“People familiar with the Intelligence committee's work estimated Nunes's effective veto cost Democrats dozens of requests for interviews and documents that were never sent out.” Dems also wanted to invite Sessions and Don Jr back for a second round but Nunes resisted. https://t.co/zY3A2Ysjje
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) December 31, 2017
Devin Nunes, targeting Mueller and the FBI, alarms Democrats and some Republicans with his tactics https://t.co/JXYxyvfRcK
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) December 31, 2017
And I, for one, sincerely hope he’ll get busted for obstruction along with all his fellow Trump-enablers:
Rep. Devin Nunes, once sidelined by an ethics inquiry from leading the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe, is reasserting the full authority of his position as chairman just as the GOP appears poised to challenge special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials…
Although Nunes has not officially wrested his panel’s Russia probe back from the Republicans he deputized to run it, the chairman’s reemergence as a combative Trump loyalist has raised alarm among Democrats that the future of the investigation may be clipped short or otherwise undermined. Even some of Nunes’s GOP allies have expressed concern about his tactics, prompting rare public warnings that he should temper his attacks on federal law enforcement.
“I’m interested in getting access to the information and not the drama,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said last month, when Nunes began threatening contempt citations for FBI Director Christopher A. Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein in the wake of revelations that former Mueller team members had exchanged anti-Trump texts…
[Ed: When Trey “Endless Benghazi Hearings” Gowdy thinks one of his fellows is maybe showboating a little much… ]
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