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BRAD REED
04 APR 2018 AT 14:48 ET
The total collapse in trust between Republicans and Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee during the Trump presidency has been a major story for more than a year now, and a new report in The Atlantic sheds some more light on how this breakdown occurred.
One former staffer who worked for a Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee tells the publication that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) used to have a good working relationship but he said that the Trump White House successfully pushed Nunes to throw up roadblocks in investigating potential Trump campaign ties with the Russian government.
A decision to be bipartisan makes all the difference, the source said. The Midnight Run was a mistake, but everything after that was a decision. And at the end of the day, Nunes decided not to be bipartisan. The pressure on him from the White House was too great.
Even some hardline conservatives, such as former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh, have criticized Nunes for politicizing the intelligence committee and putting partisan loyalty above the committees mission to oversee Americas most vital secrets.
Hes not searching for truth, hes running interference for the White House, abdicating his role as a member of a coequal branch of government, dragging his fellow committee members down with him and exposing House leadership as ineffectual and foolish, Walsh wrote in an op-ed this past February. As a former congressman but more important, as a citizen thats not what I want.
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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/former-staffer-says-trump-corrupted-devin-nunes-pressure-white-house-great/
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Obstruction of justice
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Wow Devin; hard to conclude anything other than you screwed the pooch big time. I see "Trump Tool" chiseled on your gravestone. A proud moment for you, I'm sure.
FarPoint
(12,409 posts)Has a duty to " We the People".... pressure is only a weak excuse.
Devin had a Choice...he had powerful protection options as a Congressman...
Devin chose POORLY....It is that simple.
No excuse for treasonous acts.
The party of personal responsibility is very irresponsible.
BigmanPigman
(51,610 posts)1. He is arrested and jailed for obstruction
2. He has to go bankrupt due to forfeiture of all assets and newly imposed fines
3. He loses his district in a landslide
spanone
(135,844 posts)Cosmocat
(14,566 posts)Poor Devin, just got bullied by the whitehouse ...
OR, the POS was a member of the transition team and is russia dirty, too.
n/t
deurbano
(2,895 posts)Last edited Thu Apr 5, 2018, 12:42 PM - Edit history (1)
ananda
(28,866 posts)Period.
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Selling America out... Nunes (R) should be shitcanned along with the other republican traitors
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)marble falls
(57,106 posts)CanonRay
(14,104 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)... the WH. Hes running interference for himself. He was on the transition team. Hes up to his armpits in Boris and Natasha.
True Blue American
(17,986 posts)Nunes panicked that night he rushed to the WH because he found information that incriminated him. He tried to hide it!
That is also why he shut down the investigation he was in charge of.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)cstanleytech
(26,295 posts)as the one under indictment for obstruction of justice?
vkkv
(3,384 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)So poor pitiful Nunes was subjected to 45s fiendish mind control techniques? Hypnotized against his will?
Bullshit. Hes an adult (physically, at least) and therefore capable of NOT being a suck-up weasel. But HE ALONE MADE THE CHOICE to throw in with 45 as his official tattle-tale, snitch, and boot-licker.
marble falls
(57,106 posts)lawyer surrendering to the US Marshall Service to go to jail and then I'll be over that treasonous weasel.
pecosbob
(7,541 posts)He just attracts those people like stink draws flies.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)Actually AGREEING with Joe Fucking Walsh has got to be the rock bottom, doesn't it???? PLEASE???
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)A ruined career. While we watch him wait for Trump to show HIS loyalty in return.
But it could go the other way...big fat job in corporate America or lobbying waiting for him. Maybe a landslide win in his District?
niyad
(113,344 posts)Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)He did what he wanted to do.