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Hekate

(90,768 posts) Thu Mar 2, 2017, 02:11 PM Mar 2017

Let this sink in: Nunes just threatened a reporter for persisting in Sessions/Russia questions

Adam Schiff is talking to the press as I write now, but Nunes as Chair (?) was up first. Schiff is the ranking member, and outlined a "fairly comprehensive scope of investigation we've agreed to".

But Nunes -- what he said, when pressed about contacts with the Russian ambassador et al., was to look right at the offending reporter (Manu Raju, I think) and ask if he had had contacts with Russians and whether that would stand up to "an investigation." He repeated it for emphasis.

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Let this sink in: Nunes just threatened a reporter for persisting in Sessions/Russia questions (Original Post) Hekate Mar 2017 OP

I want to play poker with THAT guy. C_U_L8R Mar 2017 #1

Nunes is a hypocrite of the first degree bronxiteforever Mar 2017 #2

Devin Nunes threatens to investigate reporters who talk to Russian embassy. mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2017 #3

Thanks for the addition. I don't read or write tweets, except for reading them here Hekate Mar 2017 #6

"He's a little testy. Perhaps, he is concerned his ownership in a winery with a Russian..." chimpymustgo Mar 2017 #8

For real? Hekate Mar 2017 #12

Devin is and always has been a tool. vanlassie Mar 2017 #4

This fellow Californian would love to contribute to his opponent. Please keep us posted. NBachers Mar 2017 #7

Second that Hekate Mar 2017 #13

Attack his claim to be a Hispanic. Make the distinction that Blue_true Mar 2017 #9

Good points. I really didn't know he did claim this. vanlassie Mar 2017 #10

Note the deft change of subject... malthaussen Mar 2017 #5

Call him..... (202) 225-2523 ....I called him and told him he is a traitor. Dickhead. nt adigal Mar 2017 #11

If you don't support full freedom of the press, you do not support the constitution. Period. Initech Mar 2017 #14

C_U_L8R

(45,014 posts)

1. I want to play poker with THAT guy.

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Thu Mar 2, 2017, 02:16 PM

Mar 2017

Geez they can't bullshit their way through anything, can they?

bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)

2. Nunes is a hypocrite of the first degree

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Thu Mar 2, 2017, 02:30 PM

Mar 2017

Remember this?

October 18, 2016

– House Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R.-Calif.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R.-Utah) wrote to the inspector general of the State Department todaycalling for him to “initiate an inquiry into apparent abuse of power by senior State Department personnel trying to influence classification determinations for emails sent or received by Secretary Clinton.”
The chairmen also wrote to current Secretary of State John Kerry requesting that he remove Undersecretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy “pending an independent and unbiased investigation into his conduct during the review of Secretary Clinton’s emails.”

http://thejacksonpress.org/?p=56829

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,567 posts)

3. Devin Nunes threatens to investigate reporters who talk to Russian embassy.

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Thu Mar 2, 2017, 03:11 PM

Mar 2017

Retweeted from here:

Wow

Link to tweet

Devin Nunes, complaining about attention to Flynn/Kislyak calls, threatens to investigate reporters who talk to Russian embassy.

Link to tweet

Feb. 27, 2017, 1:35 p.m.

Reporting from Washington

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes warns against 'witch hunt' over Trump-Russia ties

Hekate

(90,768 posts)

6. Thanks for the addition. I don't read or write tweets, except for reading them here

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 2, 2017, 04:25 PM

Mar 2017

It was one of those wtf moments when I watched that, I tell you.

chimpymustgo

(12,774 posts)

8. "He's a little testy. Perhaps, he is concerned his ownership in a winery with a Russian..."

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 2, 2017, 04:54 PM

Mar 2017

Per Twitter:

Kristi? @InquiringMindGA 3h3 hours ago
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He's a little testy. Perhaps, he is concerned his ownership in a winery with a Russian distributor, friend of Putin

Hekate

(90,768 posts)

12. For real?

Reply to chimpymustgo (Reply #8)

Thu Mar 2, 2017, 06:15 PM

Mar 2017

vanlassie

(5,681 posts)

4. Devin is and always has been a tool.

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Thu Mar 2, 2017, 04:11 PM

Mar 2017

Here in his home district we are revving up to be rid of him -he's been on a free ride for years. Our Bad. He is not used to the pressure.

NBachers

(17,133 posts)

7. This fellow Californian would love to contribute to his opponent. Please keep us posted.

Reply to vanlassie (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 2, 2017, 04:26 PM

Mar 2017

Hekate

(90,768 posts)

13. Second that

Reply to NBachers (Reply #7)

Thu Mar 2, 2017, 06:16 PM

Mar 2017

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)

9. Attack his claim to be a Hispanic. Make the distinction that

Reply to vanlassie (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 2, 2017, 05:12 PM

Mar 2017

he is not Latin America Hispanic. His family immigrated from the Azores a long time ago. He should not be allowed to get votes because of his Hispanic surname, his policies are enormously damaging to professional class, working class and immigrant Hispanics. Bloody that bastard.