23 Jan 2018 2:22 pm
About that Nunes memo.
Republicans Claim Surveillance Power Abuses in Russia Inquiry
(as much as I could screenshot without paying)
Nunes refuses to show his memo to the DOJ or the FBI.Top House Judiciary Dem rips Nunes memo accusing FBI of bias.
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday ripped a GOP-crafted memo accusing FBI officials of political bias, calling it misleading and damaging to the Justice Department.
Nadler, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, accused Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) of using classified material to compile a “conspiracy theory” memo that argues there is political bias within the FBI.
“Too many of our colleagues appear to be constructing their own version of history—completely unrelated to the facts as you and I understand them—based, at least in part, on this memorandum,” Nadler wrote in a letter to Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.).
Devin Nunes Won’t Even Show His Infamous Memo to the Justice Department
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) won’t #releasethememo.
The now infamous document was prepared by Republican staffers for the House Intelligence Committee, which is chaired by Nunes, and it supposedly details how the FBI and the Justice Department improperly conducted surveillance in connection with the Trump-Russia probe.
Conservatives looking to discredit the Russia investigation have embraced the classified memo, though they haven’t seen it, and have called for its release.
But Nunes has so far insisted on keeping it secret—even from the Justice Department.
The memo is the result of these secret meetings that were reported on last month.FBI: Devin Nunes Won’t Show Us Memo Alleging Surveillance Abuses
The FBI has not been permitted to see the memo Rep. Devin Nunes and his staff wrote about alleged abuses by the intelligence community, The Daily Beast has learned.
“The FBI has requested to receive a copy of the memo in order to evaluate the information and take appropriate steps if necessary. To date, the request has been declined,” said Andrew Ames, a spokesperson for the FBI.
This is just another one of Nunes' little stunts designed to discredit Mueller, the FBI and the whole Russia investigation, just like his midnight ride to the WH last March when he went to the WH to brief them on Intel reports he received from the WH.House Republicans quietly investigate perceived corruption at DOJ, FBI
A group of House Republicans has gathered secretly for weeks in the Capitol in an effort to build a case that senior leaders of the Justice Department and FBI improperly — and perhaps criminally — mishandled the contents of a dossier that describes alleged ties between President Donald Trump and Russia, according to four people familiar with their plans.
A subset of the Republican members of the House intelligence committee, led by Chairman Devin Nunes of California, has been quietly working parallel to the committee's high-profile inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. They haven't informed Democrats about their plans, but they have consulted with the House's general counsel.
The people familiar with Nunes' plans said the goal is to highlight what some committee Republicans see as corruption and conspiracy in the upper ranks of federal law enforcement. The group hopes to release a report early next year detailing their concerns about the DOJ and FBI, and they might seek congressional votes to declassify elements of their evidence.
That final product could ultimately be used by Republicans to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether any Trump aides colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign — or possibly even to justify his dismissal, as some rank-and-file Republicans and Trump allies have demanded.