Devin Nunes

The Whistleblower Devin Nunes Must Hear From

... left the spy agencies with 47 hard drives and over 600 million pages of information, much of which was classified, and came forward, under grant of immunity, to FBI Director James Comey. This information, according to Montgomery, shows that the intelligence agencies, particularly under former Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former Obama CIA Director John Brennan and their minions, spied illegally and unconstitutionally on prominent Americans, including the chief justice of the Supreme Court, other SCOTUS justices, 156 judges, prominent businessmen like Donald Trump and even yours truly. Indeed, in addition to the mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden, these spy agencies, during the Obama administration, spied on "anyone who was anyone" in terms of their ...

Devin Nunes's Curiously Selective Memory

... presidential campaign had ties to Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Can an inquiry he leads be trusted. The skeptics include Evan Mc Mullin, the former CIA operative who launched an independent bid for the presidency last year, billing himself as a conservative alternative to the Republican nominee. He says the House GOP “can't be trusted to investigate Russia & Trump's Kremlin ties,” adding, “a special select committee is needed.” And that mistrust seemed vindicated Tuesday when Nunes responded to a journalist’s question about the Russia investigation with a highly dubious answer. The journalist was David Corn, a progressive who works at Mother Jones. He asked Nunes about Carter Page and Roger Stone, two figures whose ties to both Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia have piqued widespread interest and media coverage. Nunes insisted that he wasn’t familiar with either man. “You haven’t heard of Carter Page and all these other people?” Corn asked. “No,” Nunes said. “I mean,” Corn replied, “there were about five names mentioned by the Democrats.”. “I don’t know these people,” Nunes said. Said an incredulous Corn, “You’ve not heard ...

Now We Know Why Trump Panicked About Russia Probe

... either the Trump campaign or the Trump transition team of which he was a member," Schiff said. Appearing on CBS this morning Sen. John Mc Cain , R-Ariz., joined the chorus of voices lambasting Nunes. NORAH O'DONNELL: Let me ask you about what Chairman Nunes has done. Do you think it was appropriate that he went to go view these so-called intelligence reports on White House grounds. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN: Well, I think there needs to be a lot of explaining to do. I've been around for quite a while and I've never heard of any such thing. And- obviously- in a committee like an intelligence committee, you've got to have bipartisanship, otherwise the committee loses- credibility. And so- l- there's so much out there that needs to be explained by the chairman. And- look- if- this is a very serious issue. It all started ...

Harsh Portrayal Of Their Hometown Congressman Devin Nunes Riles His Neighbors And Friends

... it easy for the national media to portray the leader of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence as, well, maybe not up to the task when the controversy involved alleged Russian attempts to disrupt an American presidential contest. That’s a view that plain annoys farmer Brian Watte of Tulare. He grows cotton, alfalfa, black-eyed peas and pistachio trees, and has known Nunes well before he was elected to Congress more than 14 years ago. “This B. S. that he milks cows from Podunk and shouldn’t be on the intelligence committee – c’mon,” Watte said. “It’s just a continuation of, I guess, Trump’s election. They need to get over it.”. In the agricultural community of Tulare, the Nunes family is known for working hard and speaking plainly, Watte said: “There’s no beating around the bush. They are straight ahead. What you see is what you get.”. Nunes, whose district has been safely Republican with a 43-33 percent voter registration advantage ...

The Dual Roles Of Devin Nunes Raise Questions About House Investigation

... as a tactical mistake. Nunes apologized the next day. “Loyalty can sometimes make you, you know, go a step too far,” Cole said. “I’m pretty heartened that [Nunes] recognized that within 24 hours and moved to change it.”. Before the Russia issue, Nunes was mainly known in intelligence circles for his role as an architect of the GOP’s politically charged investigation of terrorist attacks on U. S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, and his preoccupation with the fate of an obscure U. S. military outpost in the Atlantic Ocean. That facility, Lajes Field, is a remote U. S. Air Force base in the Azores, wind-swept islands 1,000 miles from Europe. Nunes, a descendant of immigrants from the Azores, waged a lengthy campaign to compel the Pentagon to relocate a major intelligence base in the United Kingdom to the Azores. Pentagon ...

Devin Nunes’ Hot Seat. John Wallace Tributes. ‘i Wuv You, Robot.’ Your Morning Scoop

... civil trial in which a Fresno Unified teacher says the district failed to protect her against sexually explicit allegations by a Hmong radio host. • Barack Obama’s measures aimed at combatting global warming are in President Trump’s sights this morning. Here’s what Trump’s executive order will do. What You Want to Know. • Toddler to brand-new water heater: “I wuv you, robot. Water heater. Whatever. It’s You Tube gold. • More than 2,100 newborns have gone home with warm noggins thanks to the knitting skill of this 90-year-old lady. Faith in humanity restored. • The state of Tennessee billed a teenage driver about $3,000 for damage to the guardrail she hit. In a crash that killed her. Faith in humanity rescinded. • There’s still time to head west and quaff it up during Central Coast Craft Beer Week. Just remember: Designated driver and/or spend ...

Devin Nunes Sees The Headlights

... experiencing a leadership by threats of retaliation and leadership that paints a dark portrait of an invasion of immigrants coming to destroy our country. Allan Ides: Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch’s philosophy seems akin to the “originalism” endorsed by Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. It pegs our future on the past. Paul G. Mattiuzzi: The manner in which President Donald Trump spreads misinformation and misunderstanding seems to go beyond just the clever use of dodge and distraction. Take a number: 0.05. On Wednesday, The Salt Lake City Tribune opined in an editorial that Republican Gov. Gary Herbert should veto legislation that will lower the limit for drunken driving to blood-alcohol level of 0.05, from what it is in other states.08. The editorial warns that ...

Adam Schiff Calls On Devin Nunes To Remove Himself From Russia Investigation

... knowledge of the solemn responsibility we have on the Intelligence Committee to provide oversight on all  intelligence matters, not just to conduct the investigation," Schiff said in a statement. A spokesman for Nunes, who was a member of Trump's transition team, said Monday  he obtained the information from a source on White House grounds , which raised even more questions.  Nearly a week after Nunes' announcement, committee members still haven't seen the evidence, Schiff said. "There was no legitimate justification for bringing that information to the White House instead of the committee. That it was also obtained at the White House makes this departure all the more concerning," Schiff said. Nunes' spokesman would not comment on calls for the chairman to recuse himself. House Democrats have called for an entirely independent investigation, but short of that were coalescing around the call for ...

Devin Nunes Oversimplifies Timeline Of Russia Reset

... of the Obama administration’s position struck us as one-sided, so we took a closer look. We asked Nunes's office for comment, but didn't hear back. We concluded it’s misleading for Nunes to have ignored at least three years of the Obama administration in which the reset policy was dead, replaced by a much tougher line on Moscow. How the reset came about. In March 2009, about two months after Obama was sworn in, his administration initiated a new policy toward Russia called the "reset." The official kickoff came in Geneva on March 6, 2009, when then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov a red button. The new policy came less than a year after conflict flared in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two regions of Georgia, an independent country that was previously part of the Soviet Union. Obama’s foreign policy team had decided that the United States had a window of opportunity to find common ground on certain issues with Russia, ...

Did Devin Nunes Meet With Michael Flynn And Turkey's Foreign Minister

... The meeting marks a first direct reachout between the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan administration and the incoming Donald Trump administration, other than a phone call between two leaders last November. House Intelligence Committee Congressman Devin Nunes, a Republican heavyweight, also attended the breakfast. The Daily Sabah seemingly contradicted Langer by reporting that Cavusoglu “was the only foreign leader at the breakfast and the topics on the U. S.-Turkish agenda were discussed by the attendees,” but the newspaper is often described as publishing “pro-government” content and propaganda. The notion that Nunes “met” with the Turkish foreign minister could be controversial if true, because Flynn was forced to register with the Department of Justice as a foreign agent following revelations that his firm, Flynn Intel Group, was paid $530,000 for lobbying work that may have aided the Turkish government. Former CIA chief James Woolsey told the Wall Street Journal that ...

Did Nunes’ Disclosure Of Secret Intelligence Data Violate The Law

... While questioning Comey, Nunes said “I remain extremely concerned about the widespread illegal leaks that you just referenced in your — in your testimony. Just for the record though, I wanna get this on the record. Does the unauthorized disclosure of classified information to the press violate 18 USC 793, a section of the Espionage Act that criminalizes improperly accessing handling or transmitting national defense information?”. Comey had replied simply “Yes.”. Nunes then followed up. “Would an unauthorized disclosure of FISA-derived information to the press violate 18 USC 798, a section of the Espionage Act that criminalizes the disclosure of information concerning the communication and intelligence activities of the United States?”. Again, Comey said “yes,” adding, “In addition to being a breach of our trust with the FISA court that oversees our ...

Through The Looking Glass With Trump And Nunes

... that his bureau is investigating possible collusion between President Trump’s campaign and Russians seeking to influence our election — and shot down Trump’s claim that he was wiretapped by President Obama, while the president tweeted a rival storyline in real time – our nation took another step through the looking glass. Now it’s gotten curiouser and curiouser, to quote “Alice in Wonderland.”. The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Devin Nunes, tried damage control for Trump on Wednesday, holding a press conference to describe US surveillance of foreigners that “incidentally” swept up conversations involving Trump’s transition team, and briefing the president on the congressional probe he’s leading. Speaking separately to reporters, the president said he felt “ somewhat” vindicated for insisting Obama wiretapped him, and told Time magazine that what Nunes said “means I’m right,” a canard now refuted under oath by intelligence chiefs and clung to only by those who believe microwave ovens are spying on us. Now Nunes, who was himself a member of Trump’s transition team, discovered that when you throw a lifeline to someone who’s treading in ...