Nunes is a total tool

[OuterBanksVol]

House Intel Chairman Nunes holds a press conference claiming he has evidence that Trump, personally, was inadvertedly wiretapped through FISA. Then, he actually walks back his claims when questioned by reporters. Then, rather than sharing the purported evidence with his fellow members on the Cmte., he instead goes to the White House and shares it with the Trump administration.

In sum, the GOP head of the Cmte. currently conducting a formal "investigation" of potential wiretapping allegations, Russian meddling in our election, and collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign goes to the very target of its investigation, and hands over evidence.

Ethics check aisle 5.

Clearly Nunes was run up the flagpole by The Donald as his errandboy puppet. This reeks of yet another painfully obvious attempt by The Donald to distract from the real story. Equally clear, Nunes has lost any credibility to oversee that Cmte's investigation.

McCain is right to demand an independent investigation, and I think a majority of Americans will now support such action given the Republican's partisan stupidity.

 

[BowlBrother85]

House Intel Chairman Nunes holds a press conference claiming he has evidence that Trump, personally, was inadvertedly wiretapped through FISA. Then, he actually walks back his claims when questioned by reporters. Then, rather than sharing the purported evidence with his fellow members on the Cmte., he instead goes to the White House and shares it with the Trump administration.

In sum, the GOP head of the Cmte. currently conducting a formal "investigation" of potential wiretapping allegations, Russian meddling in our election, and collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign goes to the very target of its investigation, and hands over evidence.

Ethics check aisle 5.

Clearly Nunes was run up the flagpole by The Donald as his errandboy puppet. Equally clear, Nunes has lost any credibility to oversee that Cmte's investigation.

McCain is right to demand an independent investigation, and I think a majority of Americans will now support such action given the Republican's partisan stupidity.

Nunes was a member of the Trump transition team so his actions can either be interpreted as biased at best or perhaps even self serving at worst. He is certainly not independent. Any reasonable person can see how transparent and desperate that looked. However, his admission that the information collected on the Trump team members was both legally done and incidental doesn't validate Trump's claims, anyway. Trump's tweets specifically stated that Obama had ordered a wiretapping of Trump Tower. Nunes acknowledged (once again) that didn't happen just as Comey had stated on Monday.

 

[37L1]

There, there, let it all out, don't hold anything back. You'll feel better in about 8 years.

Maybe.

 

[Septic]

There, there, let it all out, don't hold anything back. You'll feel better in about 8 years.

Maybe.

It's like you either didn't read what he wrote or you didn't understand.

LOL, drain the swamp.

 

[RikidyBones]

This didn't need a separate thread. We have one on the subject. Can we merge this please?

 

[malinoisvol]

Forget for a moment your political bent, be it right, left, or middle, and ask yourself why is the IC putting out conflicting stories?

THINK!

 

[BowlBrother85]

Forget for a moment your political bent, be it right, left, or middle, and ask yourself why is the IC putting out conflicting stories?

THINK!

I'm not sure I know what you mean by conflicting stories. What Nunes did yesterday was confirm what we already knew (that Obama had not ordered a wiretapping of Trump Tower) and what we suspected (that some members of the Trump team - and maybe even Trump himself had been a part of surveillance). We knew that had to be the case because of what we knew about Michael Flynn's call with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the end of December. The strange thing about what Nunes did yesterday was that he didn't really tell us anything we didn't already know... but he acted like he did and that this somehow helped Trump. I don't think he helped Trump at all especially given his prior role on Trump's transition team.

 

[luthervol]

House Intel Chairman Nunes holds a press conference claiming he has evidence that Trump, personally, was inadvertedly wiretapped through FISA. Then, he actually walks back his claims when questioned by reporters. Then, rather than sharing the purported evidence with his fellow members on the Cmte., he instead goes to the White House and shares it with the Trump administration.

In sum, the GOP head of the Cmte. currently conducting a formal "investigation" of potential wiretapping allegations, Russian meddling in our election, and collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign goes to the very target of its investigation, and hands over evidence.

Ethics check aisle 5.

Clearly Nunes was run up the flagpole by The Donald as his errandboy puppet. This reeks of yet another painfully obvious attempt by The Donald to distract from the real story. Equally clear, Nunes has lost any credibility to oversee that Cmte's investigation.

McCain is right to demand an independent investigation, and I think a majority of Americans will now support such action given the Republican's partisan stupidity.

It was an obvious attempt to win a news cycle and stop the hemorrhaging. Once again, Trump's efforts to control and manipulate the news will backfire. The political capital Nunes sacrificed was a heavy price to pay for a fleeting positive spin. Trump and his supporters are desperately looking for any news that can be twisted into a positive.

 

[FLVOL_79]

It's like you either didn't read what he wrote or you didn't understand.

LOL, drain the swamp.

Shouldn't you be waiting by your mailbox for your mexican check? Scamper off now ya hear?

 

[BowlBrother85]

It was an obvious attempt to win a news cycle and stop the hemorrhaging. Once again, Trump's efforts to control and manipulate the news will backfire. The political capital Nunes sacrificed was a heavy price to pay for a fleeting positive spin. Trump and his supporters are desperately looking for any news that can be twisted into a positive.

It was clumsy as hell. He had to call two separate press conferences to basically achieve nothing.

 

[volfanjustin]

This didn't need a separate thread. We have one on the subject. Can we merge this please?

we need a lot of threads merged, every day they start a new one "trump is a secret russian agent"

 

[DevilDoc]

Trump supporters, post with substance, come on. The snowflake bit got old a long time ago. Besides, the only people I know who instantly resort to name calling won't be able to buy a pack of smokes for quite a few years.

 

[Septic]

Shouldn't you be waiting by your mailbox for your mexican check? Scamper off now ya hear?

No need, I'm not dumb enough to believe it's actually coming.

"I'm going to make Mexico pay for it" -Donald Trump


LOL

 

[37L1]

It's like you either didn't read what he wrote or you didn't understand.

LOL, drain the swamp.

Oh, I read it and understood it hence my comment.

LOL, most clear and transparent administration in history.

Both parties are FOS and you could be head of either one.

 

[Septic]

It was an obvious attempt to win a news cycle and stop the hemorrhaging. Once again, Trump's efforts to control and manipulate the news will backfire. The political capital Nunes sacrificed was a heavy price to pay for a fleeting positive spin. Trump and his supporters are desperately looking for any news that can be twisted into a positive.

This can't be understated.

Pretending this Nunes revelation is the smoking gun is ridiculous, they know it and they know that everyone else knows it.

 

[BowlBrother85]

The bombshell looks likes it's coming from the FBI... There was coordination between Russian operatives and the Trump campaign on when to release the e-mails on wikiLeaks in order to do the most damage to the Clinton campaign. This is should be an interesting few days.

 

[carlos86]

I just want to know how a guy like Nunes, a person who knows nothing about intelligence, never worked in intelligence or even worked in law enforcement became the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee??

 

[RikidyBones]

The bombshell looks likes it's coming from the FBI... There was coordination between Russian operatives and the Trump campaign on when to release the e-mails on wikiLeaks in order to do the most damage to the Clinton campaign. This is should be an interesting few days.

I really don't care who hacked Hillary. The issue is that it's all real. If the emails werent real, there'd be no news from the hack. It is that simple.

 

[Arclight]

Still showing anger because you lost the election?

 

[volfanjustin]

The bombshell looks likes it's coming from the FBI... There was coordination between Russian operatives and the Trump campaign on when to release the e-mails on wikiLeaks in order to do the most damage to the Clinton campaign. This is should be an interesting few days.

Which of those emails done damage to the Clinton campaign?

 

[BowlBrother85]

I really don't care who hacked Hillary. The issue is that it's all real. If the emails werent real, there'd be no news from the hack. It is that simple.

Oh, but there have been so many lies from the Trump team if this is true.

 

[RikidyBones]

Which of those emails done damage to the Clinton campaign?

Irrelevant. Those emails were written and are true. That's the problem of the ones who wrote them. Not the problem of when it was released or by whom.

 

[volfanjustin]

Still showing anger because you lost the election?

They may never get past this lose

 

[RikidyBones]

Oh, but there have been so many lies from the Trump team if this is true.

I could not care less about "lies" on who hacked them since they are real. Really couldn't.

 

[BowlBrother85]

Which of those emails done damage to the Clinton campaign?

There was a batch of e-mails released the same day as the infamous Access Hollywood video where Trump says, "Grab 'em by the p***y." That would be one example of possible coordination and trying to deflect bad press away from Trump.

We'll see what the FBI has. It looks like they at least think that they have something that will stick.