The Mueller Investigation Is in Mortal Danger

[RJKarl]

Follow the money.....

That's what I kept saying two years ago...

 

[Liquid Karma]

That's what I kept saying two years ago...

To your credit, you were all over the Manafort/Russia/Trump connection. Well done.

 

[Newenglanddeac]

 

[PhDeac]

Well yeah. What did they expect?

 

[dartsndeacs]

Well yeah. What did they expect?

I'mma try and stop the blatant trolling now that Trump's got the big button and even Milhouse called me out, but my natural contrarianism will still lead me to bring the minority opinion to these here RJKarl boards. What, exactly, is anyone's problem with the request? Seems reasonable to me.

Over the summer Nunes served subpoenas seeking a broad range of documents connected to the dossier of compromising allegations about President Donald Trump's connections to the Kremlin, including those related to payments the FBI made to fund it (if any), efforts to corroborate any information contained in it and whether the FBI used information from the dossier to apply for warrants to conduct surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Trump associates. The Justice Department has already allowed Intelligence Committee members and staff to review a number of highly classified materials at a secure location at the department, but last month Nunes escalated the feud, threatening top officials at Justice and the FBI with contempt of Congress if they did not meet all of his subpoena demands.

 

[sailordeac]

What, exactly, is anyone's problem with the request? Seems reasonable to me.

"reason" inside the Trump-Russia conspiracy bubble is different from reason

 

[DistrictDeacon]

"reason" inside the Trump-Russia conspiracy bubble is different from reason

“Probably”

 

[sailordeac]

definitely

 

[WakeForestRanger]

I'mma try and stop the blatant trolling now that Trump's got the big button and even Milhouse called me out, but my natural contrarianism will still lead me to bring the minority opinion to these here RJKarl boards. What, exactly, is anyone's problem with the request? Seems reasonable to me.

Nunes is not interested in doing proper oversight. He wants to selectively mine these documents for details that he can use to distract the public and undermine the Russia investigation. His actions last spring with the White House that forced him to publically step aside from leading the House Intelligence committee on this show that there is no reason to think he is doing any of this in good faith.

 

[WakeForestRanger]

 

[DistrictDeacon]

Nunes is not interested in doing proper oversight. He wants to selectively mine these documents for details that he can use to distract the public and undermine the Russia investigation. His actions last spring with the White House that forced him to publically step aside from leading the House Intelligence committee on this show that there is no reason to think he is doing any of this in good faith.

There's also the real danger that he'll run directly to the White House with any information that's handed over on ongoing investigations.

 

[PhDeac]

Didn’t he do something like that early on?

 

[WakeForestRanger]

Didn’t he do something like that early on?

Sort of. Turns out he got that information from the White House to begin with then did a press conference at the White House where he gave them the information. Cynical political theater that forced him to step aside once it was revealed what he had done.

 

[Newenglanddeac]

Oh look. Another favorite talking point to discredit the investigation has been debunked.

WASHINGTON — FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, whom President Trump has blamed for influencing the decision not to criminally charge Hillary Clinton for her use of private email server, did not oversee that inquiry while his wife was running for state office in Virginia as a Democrat, according to bureau records released Friday.

The internal documents, published on the FBI's website, support what the bureau has asserted previously: that McCabe had no conflicts when he assumed oversight of the Clinton investigation. His role began in February 2016, following his appointment as deputy director and three months after his wife, Jill McCabe, lost her bid for a state Senate seat.

McCabe has been repeatedly targeted by Trump and some Republican lawmakers, who accuse the long-time FBI official of exerting undue and partisan influence over the Clinton probe.

As recently as last month, Trump seized on McCabe's role in the Clinton inquiry and his wife's political bid, noting that Jill McCabe received nearly $470,000 from a political action committee associated with Clinton ally and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

 

[DeaconSig]

THere is a fact sailor will never acknowledge. Ever.

 

[dartsndeacs]

THere is a fact sailor will never acknowledge. Ever.

What's the fact? That the race was already over and she lost? She still got half a million dollars from a democratic PAC. I don't see how that translates into "no conflict" or makes anything "debunked"

 

[PhDeac]

What's the fact? That the race was already over and she lost? She still got half a million dollars from a democratic PAC. I don't see how that translates into "no conflict" or makes anything "debunked"

So who should conduct FBI investigations?

 

[dartsndeacs]

So who should conduct FBI investigations?

People who get under $400,000 would be a reasonable limit, at the least.

 

[DeaconSig]

What's the fact? That the race was already over and she lost? She still got half a million dollars from a democratic PAC. I don't see how that translates into "no conflict" or makes anything "debunked"

You are boring as fuck.

 

[Newenglanddeac]

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