Paul Ryan needs to be asked why he didn't stop Nunes from going to the White House?

[kentuck]

Why did Nunes go to see Paul Ryan before he visited the White House with information gathered in the investigation of Trump and his associates, in regards to the Russia connection? Did he want to find out what he was having for lunch?

There is little doubt but that Ryan knew of Nunes' plans to tell Trump of the intelligence that had been found against him.

Why didn't he tell him that would be totally wrong and inappropriate?

Somebody needs to ask Ryan when he is going to replace Nunes on the Committee?

It needs to be done soon.

[PearliePoo2]

1. Absolutely...as in yesterday!

As I wrote in another post, RePug Reps don't make a single move without the permission of their House Leader.
Ryan is complicit in this debacle and the Press needs to push this hard and non-stop.

K&R

[Amaryllis]

32. Yes! Nunes went to Trump AFTER he conferred with Ryan. This is really IMPORTANT ! More info here:

First thing Nunes did was confer with Ryan, who is just as complicit as Nunes, but that piece has been dropped out of the story after Nunes's original presser. THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT, PEOPLE! Nunes changed his story and O'Donnell said fell on his sword for Ryan.

O'Donnell did a whole piece on this Thursday that seems to have fallen off the radar.

Here for transcript, video, and details:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028850749
Has everyone forgotten Ryan told Nunes to tell Trump? Why is Nunes taking all the Heat? (ODonnell)

Given all this, can Ryan be trusted to pick a replacement? Ryan should be (and maybe is) under investigation as well.

[global1]

2. We Need An Independent Special Prosecutor.....

Ryan is compromised himself. Because he gave Nunes the OK to go to the WH he's part of the problem. He shouldn't have the ability to replace Nunes because of this.

[kentuck]

7. The Intelligence Committee should vote him off...

Until the Republicans can get a capable, non-traitorous member that can do the job for the American people.

[Chasstev365]

3. It's the cover up!

While I believe that some Republicans like Mitch McConnell were fully in on the Russian collusion, others like Ryan are willingly going along with all efforts to cover it up. They only care about power and money and are not going to lose it if at all possible, even if it means obstructing justice.

Nunes and Ryan's actions on Thursday, again, scream that there must be an independent prosecutor in the entire matter.

[Botany]

11. "Republicans like Mitch McConnell were fully in on the Russian collusion."

Yup! How did McConnell know that after the election he would have somebody else to
vote for to be a Justice on the SCOTUS.

[NewRedDawn]

23. Moscow Mitch

Confederate Traitorous old Pusbag. Keeping 160 yrs of confederacy treason alive& well.

[Botany]

26. It is called TREASON

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/12/09/treasonous-mitch-mcconnell-refused-oppose-russia-election-meddling-trump.html

The Washington Post reported, “According to several officials, McConnell raised doubts about the underlying intelligence and made clear to the administration that he would consider any effort by the White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics.”

The Senate Majority Leader was told that Russia was meddling in the presidential election, and he responded by turning his back on his own country so that a man who will be a puppet of a foreign regime could have a better chance of winning the White House.

When Mitch McConnell was offered a choice between partisan politics and his country, he chose partisanship. Anyone who thinks that this man will ever allow a Republican investigation into Russian election interference is kidding themselves.

Though his opposition, Sen. McConnell made himself complicit in the Russian takeover of the White House. Mitch McConnell wanted Republicans to get the White House back so badly that he sold out his own country to get it.

[GeoWilliam750]

4. Who appointed Nunes to head this investigation?

Whoever did would seem to be suspect as well.

[kentuck]

5. A link from VOX:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/24/15050324/rep-devin-nunes-just-canceled-a-crucial-hearing-on-russian-meddling-in-the-election

<snip>
Nunes is going to extraordinary lengths to provide cover to Trump, and it’s unclear when he’ll stop. Here’s a comprehensive timeline of his actions this week:

On Monday, during a hearing of the House Permanent Subcommittee on Intelligence, the heads of the FBI and NSA categorically denied President Trump’s tweets claiming that President Obama had ordered the US intelligence community to wiretap Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Sometime between the hearing and Wednesday morning, Nunes claimed to have received a tip from an unnamed source that US intelligence had picked up the communications of some Trump staff during the presidential transition.

The raw intelligence that Nunes said he reviewed showed no evidence of a wiretap on Trump. Rather, it showed that the conversations had been intercepted incidentally under a court-ordered Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant. In plain English, that means Trump officials had spoken to a foreign national whose communications were being monitored by US intelligence, so their conversations were picked up despite the fact that they weren’t targets of surveillance.

...more at link

[Fast Walker 52]

6. Lock him up! Along with the rest of this misbegotten administration

[riversedge]

36. The media -has been silent also--leaving Ryan out of this issue.

[Dustlawyer]

8. Stop at nothing to demand a Special Prosecutor.

I am disappointed that the Democrats on the committee are not demanding an independent special prosecutor. There is no way this committee can properly do the job.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. The Democrats are but, now that tRumpCare crashed, it should be Priority #1. . . . nt

[Botany]

9. 2 reasons

1) Ryan no doubt told Nunes to go and show Trump the information.

b) Ryan used some of the data that the Russians got in several congressional races.

[kentuck]

14. Or:

Ryan, at the request of Donald Trump, asked Nunes to come to the White House for a briefing?? They needed him to make comments that would somehow "vindicate" Donald Trump from any wrongdoing. So they gave Nunes the script.

Nunes has seen no new intelligence. He is carrying water and lies for Donald Trump and Paul Ryan.

This is another scenario.

[Botany]

19. You might be right

So Ryan told Nunes to go to the White House w/"new" information that
backed up Trump's story that President Obama was wire tapping him?

[kentuck]

21. Trump is trying to steer the narrative...

He has a straight line to Paul Ryan. He calls Ryan to see if he can get Nunes to come to the White House for a meeting? Nunes did not do it on his own - he was asked to do it by Paul Ryan - at the request of Donald Trump.

Trump is always looking out for number one. He wants Nunes to peddle a story that will make it appear that his name was only "incidentally" mentioned in conversations between two foreign targets? Nunes then makes up a story that he received some "intelligence" that no one else had. He is just following the orders of his President. As is Paul Ryan.

[MadLinguist]

30. I think you are right on both counts

And number 2 would put Ryan in the cross-hairs of election interference investigation, and possibly whichever Congress people (or Senators) were the beneficiaries of the Russian data. If that's right, then Ryan, Trump, McConnell and those beneficiaries are tied together in their messaging. The cesspool would be so large in this scenario, you have to wonder whether there are information channels that Trump and Bannon are having to keep up, playing some cesspoolians against others. There are almost certainly several such channels in the Trumphouse eddying and swirling around. Devin Nunes' blurt that he went to Ryan before going to Trump is just the first of many slips that are going to start showing up.

[mcar]

10. The question needs to be asked

Ryan is complicit in this.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Ryan probably in on #TrumpRussia and Nunes has enmeshed himself in the coverup. . . . . nt

[lark]

15. Ryan is part of the cabal.

He was in on it so of course co-conspirator Nunes had to run to him first.

[kentuck]

16. Trump asked Ryan to bring Nunes to him...

So he could say he had some intelligence that had been given to him (he had none) that showed the FISA Court had "incidentally" discovered Mr Trump and other's names in the investigation and he thought he should tell Mr Trump about it. When, in fact, it was Mr Trump telling Nunes what to say. At one time, someone even suggested the "intelligence" may have come from the White House itself.

Mr. Nunes is being used to spread false propaganda for the benefit of the White House. So is Paul Ryan.

[lark]

18. Traitors, every one of them!

I know it's a long shot, but I so pray every day that their treachery and treason won't stand. I want to believe in the arc towards truth and that someone will take a stand and call them out as colluding with Russia to steal the election and that it was a quid pro quo.

[LaydeeBug]

17. This is terrible. It's not like they're not even hiding the cover up. nt

[Turbineguy]

20. Maybe Nunes "forgot" to mention he was a Russian agent?

[kentuck]

22. He's just a useful idiot.

To try and sweep the place clean so that his President is not charged with anything. He has been drawn into the "cover-up" and he probably knows it?

[shraby]

24. He hasn't been drawn in, he was on the transition team, so he knows what's going on and

by not saying anything he is complicit. He's not only covering trump's behind, he's covering his own.

[kentuck]

27. But that may be the reason he was called to meet with Trump.

He had no new "intelligence". That was just a cover story. That's why he can't get his story straight. It changes from day to day because he is trying to cover for his "boss".

[DK504]

25. Ryan won't do a damn thing

he wants nothing more than to put his stamp on the country. He is like Hair Twittler, he doesn't want any truth to come out to show what the bunch of Russian moles in the WH.

[Kahuna7]

28. I suspect trump didn't blame ryan the the HC disaster because of

a deplorables agreement that trump will support ryan so long as ryan keep nunes in the oversight position.

[DallasNE]

29. Because Ryan Showed Such Poor Judgment Here

It is time for him to step down as Speaker of the House.

[Kablooie]

33. I thought Ryan was the one that told him he should go tell Trump about this.

[Tatiana]

34. According to Lawrence O'Donnell, Ryan told him to go to the WH.

I wonder if Nunes is one of the transition members who has been picked up in their surveillance. What if it's not just a random Team Trump member, but Nunes?

His panic would make more sense in that context.

[flamingdem]

35. Schumer was not willing to write off Nune

no more screw ups though. Wondered why he was soft on him - was om the Maddow show - maybe a fear the whole committee would be collapsed with him