Tag: GOP House Intelligence Committee

Congressman: Nunes hid evidence on Trump and Russian meddling

Devin Nunes blocked investigations into ‘worrisome contacts between the Russians and candidate Trump, his family, his businesses, and his campaign,’ according to a member of his committee.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Credit: Carlos Barria, Reuters

A top member of the House Intelligence Committee has revealed shocking details about how Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) abused his position as committee chairman to obstruct the Mueller investigation and shield Trump from accountability.

In a blistering op-ed for Nunes’ hometown Fresno Bee, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), said that Nunes blocked committee Democrats from following up on leads about “worrisome contacts between the Russians and candidate Trump, his family, his businesses, and his campaign.”

What’s more, Swalwell said, Nunes blocked special counsel Robert Mueller from seeing evidence that “many witnesses committed perjury or offered information relevant to the special counsel’s work” when they testified before the committee.

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Republicans on defensive over Russia report finding

The following article by Katie Bo Williams was posted on the Hills website March 16, 2018:

U.S. Capitol. Credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Republicans are on the defensive about their own announcement concluding the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russia’s election interference.

Members are openly frustrated at what they say is inaccurate media coverage of an alleged split between Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas) and other committee lawmakers over the issue of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s preference for then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 election. Continue reading “Republicans on defensive over Russia report finding”

Intel panel Republicans seem to back away from finding that Russia was not trying to help Trump

The following article by Karoun Demirjian was posted on the Washington Post website March 13, 2018:

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) makes a startling claim about the Russian investigation. But there’s no evidence to back it up. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)

The leader of the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation seemed to back off Tuesday from the most surprising finding in the GOP’s report that Russia was not trying to help President Trump, as the panel’s top Democrat trashed the product as a political gift to the White House.

Rep. K. Michael Conaway (R-Tex.) told reporters Tuesday that “it’s clear [Russian officials] were trying to hurt Hillary [Clinton]” by interfering in the 2016 election and that “everybody gets to make up their own mind whether they were trying to hurt Hillary, help Trump, it’s kind of glass half full, glass half empty.” Continue reading “Intel panel Republicans seem to back away from finding that Russia was not trying to help Trump”

More memos are coming. Here are six questions about ‘Phase Two’ of the Nunes investigation.

The following article by James Hohmann with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve was posted on the Washington Post website February 5, 2018:

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, heads for the State of the Union last week. Credit: Joshua Roberts/Reuters

THE BIG IDEA: The memo published Friday may have been the most overhyped dud since Geraldo Rivera opened Al Capone’s empty vault in 1986. But House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, whose Republican staffers prepared the partisan document, promises that it was just the beginning.

He boasted on Friday that he now plans to train his fire on other targets. “We are in the middle of what I call ‘Phase Two’ of our investigation, which involves other departments, specifically the State Department and some of the involvement that they had in this,” the California congressman told Fox News.

“Republicans close to Nunes say there could be as many as five additional memos or reports of ‘wrongdoing,’” Axios reported Sunday night. “A Republican source briefed on Nunes’s investigation” told the site that one of the Democrats he plans to go after next is longtime Bill and Hillary Clinton associate Sid Blumenthal, who has been fending off inquiries from congressional investigators for more than two decades. Continue reading “More memos are coming. Here are six questions about ‘Phase Two’ of the Nunes investigation.”

#YoMemoJokes trends nationwide, adding to Trump’s humiliation over memo failure

The following article by Caroline Orr was posted on the ShareBlue website January 3, 2018:

Twitter users mocking the failed memo pushed the hashtag to the top of the national trends list overnight.

Credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci

As Donald Trump took to Twitter to try to convince Americans that the GOP’s overhyped memo was not as much of a failure as it appeared to be, Twitter users were busy elsewhere — tweeting jokes about the memo under the hashtag #YoMemoJokes.

The hashtag, a clever play on words, was pushed to the top trending hashtag nationwide overnight. As of 10:30 Saturday morning, it was still trending in the #2 spot nationwide. Continue reading “#YoMemoJokes trends nationwide, adding to Trump’s humiliation over memo failure”

Who is Carter Page? Subject Of Nunes Memo Has Ties To Russia — And Spies

The following article by Nicole Goodkind of Newsweek was posted on the National Memo website February 1, 2018:

Carter Page started out as an unknown foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Now he’s at the center of a national scandal about Russia, secret courts, and surveillance of U.S. citizens.

That’s because a controversial Republican memo, created by GOP Congressman Devin Nunes, apparently alleges that the FBI and the Department of Justice used misleading evidence for a surveillance warrant against Page in the fall of 2016.

Though he was not well known in Russian policy circles, Page had spent years working in the region before signing up with the Trump campaign.  An ex-Moscow-based investment banker, he attracted the attention of the FBI in 2013 when a Russian spy tried to recruit him. Page is one of the Trump administration’s many friendly links to the government of Vladimir Putin—ties that have fueled speculation and questions about the Trump campaign and Russia’s efforts to influence the U.S. presidential election. Continue reading “Who is Carter Page? Subject Of Nunes Memo Has Ties To Russia — And Spies”