Nunes vents anger at Sessions over subpoena, threatens to hold AG, FBI chief in contempt
Source: CNN
By Tom LoBianco and Manu Raju, CNN
Updated 8:14 AM ET, Wed September 6, 2017
(CNN)House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes lashed out at Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week in a letter where he threatened Sessions with a public grilling if he doesn't produce documents about the Russia dossier to the House intelligence committee.
Nunes, who despite stepping aside from directing the House Russia investigation has been leading his own separate investigation, accused Sessions and the FBI of stonewalling him repeatedly in a September 1 letter obtained by CNN. In the letter, he threatened to drag Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray before the committee for a public grilling and hold them in contempt of Congress -- a jailable offense -- if they don't hand over the documents.
The House intelligence committee issued a pair of subpoenas last month seeking documentation of whether the FBI or Justice Department used material from the dossier compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele as part of the federal investigation into possible collusion between the campaign of President Donald Trump and the Kremlin. Nunes also writes that he subpoenaed to discover whether information from the Russia dossier was used in the crafting of applications to conduct surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
In the letter, which was signed only by Nunes and no other members of the House intelligence committee, Nunes explained that he was extending the deadline for responding to the subpoenas to September 14. But he capped it off with a sharp threat.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/05/politics/house-intelligence-committee-subpoena-fbi-justice/index.html
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,031 posts)underpants
(182,861 posts)Sounds like a good name for Nunes's little private investigation
mitch96
(13,923 posts)Tell this guy to sit down and shut up...
such a petulant child..
m
Me.
(35,454 posts)This is Nunes acting on his own.
OnDoutside
(19,965 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)So I'm guessing this was a unilateral situation
OnDoutside
(19,965 posts)couldn't see how that committee could survive much longer. PLUS, it would say that it was the entire Republican House members who wanted it shut down to protect themselves, more than Trump. It's a very worrying situation though.
TeapotInATempest
(804 posts)What's he so afraid of?
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Now a Congressperson wants to interfere in a criminal investigation and trot everything he finds out over to the White House?
The stupidity of some of these "elected officials" is mindboggling.
But some things do 'trickle down' apparently.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)stollen
(419 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)He's in on the crime
OnDoutside
(19,965 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)should RESIGN and hire Sleazy Sessions as his defense attorney!
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Let the republican Lie Fest commence!
Who will lie best and most?
The republican Perjurer General?
Or the republican TreasonWeasel Cover-up Artiste?
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)be called an "intelligence committee"? Seems to be a contradiction in there someplace.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)"And now it's time for...Republicans eating their own!"