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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 08:48 AM Apr 2018

Devin Nunes Threatens To Impeach DOJ's Rod Rosenstein And FBI's Chris Wray

Source: Newsweek Magazine




BY GRAHAM LANKTREE ON 4/11/18 AT 4:41 AM

The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee says he is prepared to impeach the head of the FBI and Deputy Attorney General if he doesn’t get a two-page document he says prompted the Russia investigation.

“Just the fact that they're not giving this to us tells me there's something wrong here,” California Republican Representative Devin Nunes told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on the The Ingraham Angle Tuesday night.

“I can tell you that we're not just going to hold in contempt, we will have a plan to hold in contempt and to impeach,” Nunes told Ingraham, who asked what his committee would do to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein if they don’t bow to his demand.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has been seeking an unredacted version of the document, which marked the beginning and formal basis of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign on allegations it aided Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.




Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/devin-nunes-has-plan-impeach-dojs-rod-rosenstein-and-fbis-chris-wray-880290
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Devin Nunes Threatens To Impeach DOJ's Rod Rosenstein And FBI's Chris Wray (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP
Mueller should investigate this Russian stooge dalton99a Apr 2018 #1
He probably already has invesitgated nunes. shraby Apr 2018 #7
He's probably mentioned in that document, which is why he sounds so panicked and crazy. lagomorph777 Apr 2018 #54
Stupid no good piece of shit bluestarone Apr 2018 #2
He is a traitor, they have the goods on him, and he knows it. Eliot Rosewater Apr 2018 #28
The stupid is strong with this one .... has he ever heard of Carter Page? Botany Apr 2018 #3
I'm in Nunes' district Plucketeer Apr 2018 #24
+ 1 MBS Apr 2018 #49
Sounds like the color of Dustbin's money now is lagomorph777 Apr 2018 #55
This goofy motherfucker's gonna end up in jail, ain't he. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Apr 2018 #4
I HOPE SO! Ugh PunksMom Apr 2018 #10
yup. n/t Pobeka Apr 2018 #15
Partisan politics is not a sound basis for impeachment bucolic_frolic Apr 2018 #5
Nunes Is A Russian Agent PaulX2 Apr 2018 #6
Nunes is odd and really full of hate. riversedge Apr 2018 #13
TWO TRUMP APPOINTEES leftynyc Apr 2018 #8
I really really want to know what the Russians have on him. displacedtexan Apr 2018 #9
Same here. He must know he is in deep shit. dameatball Apr 2018 #18
Along the lines of the guy wearing the goats head in the film Cosmocat Apr 2018 #39
Obsequious lickspittle. C_U_L8R Apr 2018 #11
Laura Ingraham pats him on his head and agrees with him. All is well with the twit @devinNunes! 🌊🌊 riversedge Apr 2018 #12
Notice how they all run to Fox to whine about fake requests...the Cult must be fed! Fred Sanders Apr 2018 #21
Am I the only one here... Your Waiter Tonight Apr 2018 #14
No Bob Loblaw Apr 2018 #42
Not as much as I want to punch Paul Ryan. pecosbob Apr 2018 #52
Is somebody lonely? Corgigal Apr 2018 #16
Here is solution to voting out the traitor Nunes....................Andrew Janz turbinetree Apr 2018 #17
I loathe Nunes ... just sent Janz $50 Auggie Apr 2018 #29
Your welcome and Thank you -------Wado turbinetree Apr 2018 #43
Still fighting lsewpershad Apr 2018 #19
Go ahead, Nunes. Show your impotence. Even if you somehow pnwmom Apr 2018 #20
He probably thinks impeaching those individuals will get the law off his own tail. GoCubsGo Apr 2018 #56
He Better Work Fast Me. Apr 2018 #22
Republicans impeaching Republicans.. hmm.. when was the last time THAT happened? vkkv Apr 2018 #23
"We will have a plan"! Grins Apr 2018 #25
Neah neah-neah neah neah booga booga booga. DinahMoeHum Apr 2018 #26
As much as I'd like to see Nunes get F'd on this, I'm not clear what authority the FBI and DOJ hughee99 Apr 2018 #27
Maybe because there is ongoing counterintelligence and obstruction investigation wishstar Apr 2018 #30
That would seem like a decent reason, but they have not asserted that is the case as far as I know. hughee99 Apr 2018 #32
That may have been true in the past True Blue American Apr 2018 #41
And despite all of that, he is still on this committee that has oversight. hughee99 Apr 2018 #44
I tend to agree. If they haven't already, the Gang of Eight should be allowed to see it ... mr_lebowski Apr 2018 #51
I don't think anyone outside the DOJ and FBI has seen it. That's my concern. hughee99 Apr 2018 #53
Makes me wonder what they might know about him to GreenPartyVoter Apr 2018 #31
It would be nice if Mueller could tie Nunes up tightly with avebury Apr 2018 #33
That would be nice, but in general, if an agency doesn't trust the people with oversight authority, hughee99 Apr 2018 #34
And if it could be proven that the requesting person is part of an ongoing criminal avebury Apr 2018 #47
If it could be proven that the requesting person is part of an ongoing criminal enterprise hughee99 Apr 2018 #48
Because its Trump who has reached the boiling point. Historic NY Apr 2018 #36
Yes, and Nunes has already seen the redacted version. He's asking for the unredacted version, and hughee99 Apr 2018 #37
I suspect it has more to do ... Whiskeytide Apr 2018 #45
I suspect you're probably right about that, but unfortunately I'm not sure it's within their rights hughee99 Apr 2018 #46
Nunes should be careful what he wishes for! I say release it; likely damning as hell! 4139 Apr 2018 #35
Nunes is an idiot Gothmog Apr 2018 #38
Yeah! Why won't they give an unredacted document to a notorious, partisan leaker? DetlefK Apr 2018 #40
HA HA HA, little Devin ca't do squat !!! trueblue2007 Apr 2018 #50

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
28. He is a traitor, they have the goods on him, and he knows it.
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 11:49 AM
Apr 2018

Pre Obama America would probably not support so many obvious traitors, but the black president drew a line that was invisible before, it was there but invisible, so to speak.

Now there is NOTHING they wont support as long as it is racist, misogynist, homophobic, etc.

Nothing.

Obama being elected and then a smart, non nonsense woman wanting to be next? Fuck , that was way too much for deplorables or what is really about SIXTY MILLION Americans who VOTE.

Botany

(70,504 posts)
3. The stupid is strong with this one .... has he ever heard of Carter Page?
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 08:51 AM
Apr 2018

US intel had been looking Russia/Trump connections long before 2016.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
24. I'm in Nunes' district
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 10:32 AM
Apr 2018

Hey - cut the rube some slack. He (like many of our reps) has an addiction problem. He's addicted to the money from "BIG Farm-ah". Corporate interests fuel this Bozo, but he IS in trouble out here. I live out amongst farm fields and his 3'X5' campaign signs keep mysteriously disappearing or ending up on the ground with tire tracks on them. And I'm not the cause!
We laughed at the irony of Nunes being tapped for the "intelligence" committee. Talk about an oxymoran!!! I do believe he'll be but one grain of sand against the blue wave.

displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)
9. I really really want to know what the Russians have on him.
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 08:56 AM
Apr 2018

This is the third major blunder he's made in the name of Trump.

riversedge

(70,220 posts)
12. Laura Ingraham pats him on his head and agrees with him. All is well with the twit @devinNunes! 🌊🌊
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 08:59 AM
Apr 2018

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
16. Is somebody lonely?
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 09:14 AM
Apr 2018

Is somebody missing all the action? Not being a good Lassie, for his Timmy.
Someone might be begging for a

No Knock
No Knock
No Knock

Who's there?

America.

turbinetree

(24,701 posts)
43. Your welcome and Thank you -------Wado
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 01:06 PM
Apr 2018

I really want to see this jerk Nunes, brought into a federal court, for obstruction of justice, and the best way to do this is to vote him out, and then brought in to explain his BS and watch him lie...............and it would be to funny if he had to go before Janz..................



November 2018 cannot get here fast enough







pnwmom

(108,978 posts)
20. Go ahead, Nunes. Show your impotence. Even if you somehow
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 09:57 AM
Apr 2018

hold the House together for impeachment, the Senate will never convict.

GoCubsGo

(32,083 posts)
56. He probably thinks impeaching those individuals will get the law off his own tail.
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 03:44 PM
Apr 2018

He's that stupid. I have little doubt that he's in the Russia stuff up to his eyeballs. He's as dumb as Spanky, and he likely thinks that eliminating the investigators will make everything go away. I wouldn't be surprised if he caught wind of a pending raid on his offices.

 

vkkv

(3,384 posts)
23. Republicans impeaching Republicans.. hmm.. when was the last time THAT happened?
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 10:22 AM
Apr 2018

Anyone else remember how a person would put two bumper-stickers on their big 'ol chrome bumpers with one of the stickers cut into two parts?

Nix On Nixon

This was fairly common in California.

Grins

(7,217 posts)
25. "We will have a plan"!
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 11:40 AM
Apr 2018

"...we will have a plan to hold in contempt and to impeach..."

A plan, you say! Well, good luck with that, buttercup.

Think you can even get a majority on your committee to vote to hold in contempt the (new) director of the FBI and the Deputy Attorney General?
Think you can even get a majority on your committee to vote to move it to the House floor?
Think you can even get a simple majority of the House to vote on something this explosive? (Tell me again how many R's are not running for re-election...?)
Think you can even get two-freaking-thirds of the Senate to vote to convict?
Can you imagine the witnesses the director of the FBI and the Deputy Attorney General will call in defense and the damage they can do to you?

Not very bright, are 'ya?

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
27. As much as I'd like to see Nunes get F'd on this, I'm not clear what authority the FBI and DOJ
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 11:49 AM
Apr 2018

have to withhold this from him. It doesn't seem like either agency has given some specific reason why they can't or won't turn it over.

wishstar

(5,269 posts)
30. Maybe because there is ongoing counterintelligence and obstruction investigation
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 11:55 AM
Apr 2018

and Nunes may be a subject of their investigations

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
32. That would seem like a decent reason, but they have not asserted that is the case as far as I know.
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 11:58 AM
Apr 2018

My concern (in general) is that it's not good when agencies that are supposed to have oversight are told they can't have information they request without a clear explanation. That's how the inmates end up running the asylum.

True Blue American

(17,984 posts)
41. That may have been true in the past
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 01:02 PM
Apr 2018

But do not forget Nunes recused himself,lied about that, sneaked in the WH to share news.
Closed down the investigation, then wrote 2 lying memos.

Decent Republicans are not going to put their necks on the line for Nunes.

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
44. And despite all of that, he is still on this committee that has oversight.
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 01:08 PM
Apr 2018

I think it's a problem when an agency doesn't comply with it's oversight and doesn't explain why it won't or can't. I don't trust Nunes, but as long as he's in that position, they need to either comply or explain why, don't they? We shouldn't need to speculate about this, it only feeds into the idea that there is a "deep state" that controls things and they don't answer to elected officials. That idea fosters distrust in government and is a rallying point for republican voters.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
51. I tend to agree. If they haven't already, the Gang of Eight should be allowed to see it ...
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 02:15 PM
Apr 2018

And then they can either order the unredacted version be given to Nunes, or explain to Nunes ... why it is that it cannot be.

To be clear, Nunes HAS seen a redacted version, it's not like they've completely withheld the requested document.

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
53. I don't think anyone outside the DOJ and FBI has seen it. That's my concern.
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 03:18 PM
Apr 2018

It's not that Nunes, personally, can't see it (although if there's a good reason for that, it should be addressed) it's that they're withholding it from the entire oversight committee seemingly without a clear explanation.

avebury

(10,952 posts)
33. It would be nice if Mueller could tie Nunes up tightly with
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 12:01 PM
Apr 2018

Trump so that such a move would constitute Obstruction of Justice with Mueller's probe. Nunes sure seems to be in league with Trump the way he would run to the WH late at night.

Due to Nunes ties to Trump, DOJ and FBI might be able to make the case that Nunes' actions are intended to interfere with an ongoing investigation an Nunes cannot be trusted to keep his mouth shut about anything he could learn from the.

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
34. That would be nice, but in general, if an agency doesn't trust the people with oversight authority,
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 12:06 PM
Apr 2018

is it within their power to simply not cooperate? I don't believe it is. It's reached the point where if they have a problem with Nunes getting this information, they need to either say so or cooperate. This is exactly the sort of thing that gives all those people who talk about corruption and "the swamp" reason to believe it's true.

avebury

(10,952 posts)
47. And if it could be proven that the requesting person is part of an ongoing criminal
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 01:20 PM
Apr 2018

enterprise should they go ahead and turn over whatever material that is requested?

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
48. If it could be proven that the requesting person is part of an ongoing criminal enterprise
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 01:22 PM
Apr 2018

why is that person not being charged with being part of an ongoing criminal enterprise?

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
37. Yes, and Nunes has already seen the redacted version. He's asking for the unredacted version, and
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 12:22 PM
Apr 2018

as far as I know, the FBI and DOJ have neither turned it over or explained why they won't or can't.

Whiskeytide

(4,461 posts)
45. I suspect it has more to do ...
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 01:11 PM
Apr 2018

... with their belief that Nunes cannot be trusted not to reveal investigative secrets/strategies to the targets and subjects of the ongoing investigation - which is clearly why he wants the documents in the first place. It's entirely possible that the initial trigger for the investigation summarizes wire-taps, identifies whistleblowers and sets out road maps following the $ ... and who knows what else. Nunes getting his hands on it could be very detrimental to the investigation - especially if he gets it and spills it before Trump is interviewed.

But it's a little awkward, I guess, to publicly tell a US Congressman that he's a leak-weasel and not trust-worthy enough to be given sensitive information.

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
46. I suspect you're probably right about that, but unfortunately I'm not sure it's within their rights
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 01:14 PM
Apr 2018

to withhold documents from oversight on the grounds that they "don't trust him". Otherwise, there's little incentive for organizations to comply with oversight at all.

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