Devin Nunes Vanished the Night Before He Made Trump Surveillance Claims

[MelissaB]

Devin Nunes Vanished the Night Before He Made Trump Surveillance Claims

The Republican intelligence chairman got a message and jumped out of an Uber. The next morning he made a bombshell claim based on classified information.

Hours before the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee announced his shocking claims about surveillance of the Trump transition team on Wednesday morning, he practically disappeared.

Rep. Devin Nunes was traveling with a senior committee staffer in an Uber on Tuesday evening when he received a communication on his phone, three committee officials and a former national security official with ties to the committee told The Daily Beast. After the message, Nunes left the car abruptly, leaving his own staffer in the dark about his whereabouts.

By the next morning, Nunes hastily announced a press conference. His own aides, up to the most senior level, did not know what their boss planned to say next. Nunes’ choice to keep senior staff out of the loop was highly unusual.

The Republican chairman had a bombshell to drop.

More: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/24/devin-nunes-vanished-the-night-before-he-made-trump-surveillance-claims.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Curioser and curioser.

If someone were to write a book describing the developing Russia scandal it would be dismissed as far-fetched fiction.

[dchill]

11. If you told me it was all from a new novel...

by David Baldacci, I'd believe it. If you know what I mean.

[dalton99a]

2. Maybe for an urgent meeting with a Russian emissary

[MelissaB]

5. Russians, Trumpers, or a combination of both.

Who the heck knows now days.

[NightWatcher]

3. The political geek in me is enjoying the twists and turns

I think wild and unimaginable things are taking place in DC.

This thing get more and more fantastical daily.

[Lucinda]

13. Me too!

[Chasstev365]

4. Was he snuck into the White House under the cover of darkness?

[dchill]

7. Something like that...

Certainly nothing unlike that. Probably that.

[womanofthehills]

6. some speculation from over at Daily Kos on Nunes and Russia

Devin Nunes: A Russian Connection Too?


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OK, this seems far-fetched and tenuous, but who wouldn’t have thought a Russian invasion of a US election and association with a US President was far-fetched and tenuous less than a year ago? As a further caveat to this diary, I should also say I haven’t a clue who/what the source of this story is.

With all that in mind, here goes …

First, according to his 2014 financial disclosure report and reported in the LA Times, nearly all of Devin Nunes’ entire net worth of about $51,000 is apparently tied up in an investment in the Alpha Omega WInery of St. Helena, CA.

As reported in Addicting Info (the source I know nothing about), with distributors across the US, Canada and Mexico, this winery has few distributors worldwide and only two in other western countries, namely Switzerland and Russia. The author of the piece in Addicting Info makes the point that there is no distributor in a NATO country in Europe.

From googling, I have not been able to find much information in depth about the Russian distributor, the Luding Trade Company. Nor does there seem to be any suspicious information about the Alpha Omega Winery or its founders. So for now this is likely a random factoid, and it’s possible everyone in Congress, Democrat and Republican, could be linked in some way to Russia. But it sure seems that such a connection might be a prerequisite for those in the Trump orbit.

Again, for what it’s worth.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/24/1646793/-Devin-Nunes-A-Russian-Connection-Too

BUT CHECK OUT THIS STORY ON Alpha Omega yacht with under age prostitutes

Courtwatch: Settlement Expected in Case Alleging Men Hired Prostitutes for Cruise Aboard USS Alpha Omega

A former Napa Valley winery employee alleges that in August 2015 she was assigned to work on a company yacht where men had sex with call girls while the group cruised the San Francisco Bay, according to court records.

The former tasting room attendant at Alpha Omega Winery LLC in Rutherford, Alene Anase, said that on Aug. 12, 2015, she was on the yacht for the private event when about 25 men boarded the USS Alpha Omega at Pier 41 in San Francisco, according to the lawsuit, which is being settled out of court. The men, who had won the cruise at a charity fundraiser, came with a group of prostitutes, the complaint alleged.

Anase, a Walnut Creek resident, said she was “extremely disturbed by the presence of the prostitutes, especially because it appeared that some of the girls were too young to consent to sexual activity,” according to the complaint filed in Napa County Superior Court.

Anase and a co-worker assigned to the 32-foot yacht with her that day called the winery by cell phone, according to the court filing. But instead of ordering the captain to turn the yacht around and return the two employees to “safety,” Anase was told to “simply ‘lie low’ and try to do as little as possible in order to avoid harassment,” according to the lawsuit. The men involved in the alleged incident are referred as “Doe Defendants.”

https://www.winebusiness.com/news/?go=getArticle&dataid=176634

[dchill]

8. Devin Nunes seems to have multiple reasons...

to look like the proverbial deer in the headlights. Which he does.

[world wide wally]

17. Remember the glare that Obama gave to Putin at an international meeting?

I'm sure someone has the picture.
This explains a lot

[colorado_ufo]

19. Hi ENTIRE net worth? $51,000?

This strains credibility. Of course, he may have given quite a bit of money to charity . . .

"Where were you, Mr. Nunes, on the evening of Aug. 12, 2015?"

Let's haul out those tax returns.

[rainbow4321]

21. Here's a site that has his finances all the way back to early 2000's

Though, what's on legal paper doesn't always represent reality, right?

It has several bits of info, like he is, on paper, a "limited owner" for the winery. He had a mortgage at one point and now owns and rents a condo out in his district. Click thru the various PDF links.


http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/reports.php?year=2014&cid=N00007248

[colorado_ufo]

23. Thanks!

[C_U_L8R]

9. It's DC

He's got to be a hundred surveillance cameras

[Tatiana]

10. So who's blackmailing him?

Russia (i.e. Putin)? Trump? Bannon?

I saw his last press conference. He seemed terrified.

[colorado_ufo]

18. Perhaps he had a sudden desire to go yachting one evening.

[2naSalit]

12. Why were they in an uber?

[videohead5]

14. Blackmail?

I wonder if Trump has something he can blackmail Nunes with?

[Honeycombe8]

15. Another corrupt Trumper. OMG. They're all over the place.

The whole place up there reeks of corruption.

[world wide wally]

16. Trump said he likes to use couriers rather than computers as a means of communication

[LiberalFighter]

20. What was the location where he left the car? Prostitute?

[hrmjustin]

22. The FBI should interrogate Nunes.