How Devin Nunes Helped Robert Mueller

[UpInArms]

The irony of this new situation is that, as Susan Hennessey has observed, outgoing House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, Rep. Mike Conaway (who purportedly led the Russia inquiry after Nunes’ quasi-recusal), lead interrogator Trey Gowdy, and the other GOP members of the committee may, wholly unintentionally, prove to have been devastatingly effective questioners in the service of future false-statement prosecutions.

This is because, as the House Intelligence Committee majority’s publicly released report indicates, the GOP appears to have all but openly encouraged its witnesses to deny any and all potential wrongdoing, regardless of the plausibility of their denials. Thus, the GOP members and their staffs appear to have been singularly uninterested in testing the veracity of witnesses’ testimony or even inquiring into elemental questions, such as whether Donald Trump Jr. called his father regarding his Trump Tower meeting with representatives of the Russian government, or whether Amway heir Erik Prince lied regarding yet another Trump Tower meeting, this one including Don Jr. and, among others, representatives of two Gulf states.

As a result, some witnesses affiliated with Trump and his campaign may have been lulled into thinking they could lie with particular impunity. It is therefore possible, if not likely, that a fairly substantial number of witnesses, including possibly the president’s eldest son, will soon find themselves facing the unusual prospect of being criminally charged for lying before a House panel that all but welcomed their dishonesty.

https://amp.slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/michael-cohen-lying-to-congress-plea-deal-devin-nunes.html

[Turbineguy]

1. Good

Nunes is well out of his depth.

[GulfCoast66]

2. I think Nunes is wishing he had retired.

In early 2017 and later after they passed the tax cut they never even considered they could lose the house.

I will be watching the first open hearing with Schiff running the committee.

I can’t wait to see Nunes try to make an objection the first time and see Schiff shut down faster than a brothel next to a baptist church. You know Schiff is ready to bring it.

No young leaders my ass. This guy is our next speaker.

[D_Master81]

3. And yet Nunes was re elected

go figure

[Takket]

4. there is a term for this: poetic justice!