Trey Gowdy claims Nunes never talked to Trump about Russia even though he admitted he did

[TomCADem]

Source: Raw Story

A terse Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) snapped at CBS host John Dickerson on Sunday morning, insisting that House Intelligence Committee head Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) did not speak with President Donald Trump about a Russia investigation despite Nunes telling the press he did.

Appearing on CBS’s Face The Nation, Gowdy — who headed up the most recent investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Benghazi — was asked about the propriety of Nunes speaking with president about the investigation. “Has he shown you any of what caused him to suggest that Obama officials doing surveillance captured some Trump campaign associates and unmasked them in the process of investigating?” Dickerson asked.

After admitting that he hasn’t seen the information Nunes was given, Gowdy insisted that he is just as much in the dark about the intelligence info as Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the senior Democrat on the intelligence committee.

“I’ll just tell you this,” Gowdy continued. “My understanding is Chairman Nunes briefed the commander-in-chief on matters unrelated to the Russian investigation. So, if that’s a big deal in Washington, then we’ve sunk to a new low.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/trey-gowdy-claims-nunes-never-talked-to-trump-about-russia-even-though-he-admitted-he-did/

[Cary]

1. Who is "we," kimosabe?

The Republicans keep finding new lows to sink to.

Maybe "briefed" is the wrong word? Nunes creeped on Trump.

[democratisphere]

2. Coverup.

[mpcamb]

21. Serial liars- get 'em in court.

What part of this could pass a cross exam?

..and we're talkin' treason here.

[dalton99a]

3. Sowing doubt and confusion about an incontrovertible fact.

[beachbum bob]

4. Deflection to delay...

If conservatives want to bind themselves to trump...All I can say let's make the knots really tight. 2018

[33taw]

5. Agree, we have sunk to a new low. Trump's team is the subject of the investigation.

[lastlib]

22. Not *WE* we--the *GOPee* "we"

They are the ones who have sunk to the new low. And KEEP SINKING lower....and lower....and lower....and lower....and lower..........

[Cartaphelius]

6. News FLASH!

Gowdy, a fictional character, played by Draco Malfoy, is working off his script.

[Ligyron]

9. HA! good one.

He DOES look like Draco doesn't he? The little shit.

Welcome to DU!

[SunSeeker]

7. These guys are so incompetent they're blowing their own coverup.

Hey Howdy Doody, how about you get your story straight with Trump's snitch Nunes, ok?

[shadowmayor]

8. The cornerstone of Fake News

is Fake Facts! Because Benghazi. How many reports detailed how Benghazi was a CIA outpost, not a Consulate or Embassy and therefore under the purview of one David Petraeus at the time of the attack?

[red dog 1]

14. You're right, Benghazi was not an embassy, but it was the Republicans who cut funding for embassy

security, which meant less funding for American consulates and "compounds": as well.

US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens & 3 other Americans were killed in the Benghazi attack, but it was the fault of the Republicans who voted to cut funding for embassy security, not Secretary Clinton.

&quot In 2011) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that Republicans' proposed cuts to her department would be 'detrimental to America's national security' - a charge Republicans rejected."
One year before Benghazi, Hillary warned the GOP that their embassy security cuts put America at risk, and they didn't listen to her.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/22/1437642/-Not-Hillary-Benghazi-was-GOP-s-fault

[mr_lebowski]

23. It's truly astounding the frequency w/which the knuckle-dragging Faux watchers will accept lies ...

Thoroughly convinced, without evidence ... that these lies ... are facts.

Well, I suppose to some extent, everyone is like that. But the thing that's different between them and US ... is that we actually WANT to the know the real truth, and are willing to alter our opinions about things in the face of actual, demonstrable truth.

'Truth' and 'facts' are actual things to be respected for us. To the far-right, they are simply things to be believed when they confirm their biases, and rejected when they do not ... period. Which basically means there ARE NO 'FACTS' as far as these people are concerned. The entire concept does not exist in their minds.

It's truly a scary thing to witness at times, not to mention teetering on the clinical definition of 'mental illness'.

This case provides such a perfect example. It is FACT that Hillary told the GOP-controlled Congress that if they refused to increase the security budget for our overseas 'stations', be they embassies or CIA-run compounds (or both, as is often the case), that it WOULD lead to loss of American lives.

Yet somehow, when that VERY THING happens just a year later ... it's AAAAAALLLLLL Hillary's fault in their minds. SHE was the irresponsible one, not 'their team'. Because nothing bad that happens is EVER a result of anything decided by a politician with an (-R) after their name, no matter how f***ing GLARING and obvious the evidence FOR such a conclusion ... is. GOT to be the Liberals/Dems 'fault', period.

The atrocities that took place at Abu Ghraib are another perfect example of the phenomenon. They actually think that the Yoo memo, and the actual torture ... had nothing to do w/each other. It was just 'bad apples' ... RIIIIIIIIIGHT. Sure it was.

Their blindness and/or stupidity ... is nothing short of astounding to behold at times ...

[pecosbob]

10. BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI,

email, email, email. Go f*ck yourself, Trey, and take Darryl with you.

[NewRedDawn]

11. Howdy Doody Gowdy

and Devin Nonuts. Two traitorous mother fuckers of of the Putin crime family

[Arkansas Granny]

12. Gowdy was getting visibly agitated this morning. There's a lot more to this story

and it's going to be interesting to see how it goes down.

[Peachhead22]

13. So Nunes didn't talk to Trump about *Russia*

Even if we take Gowdy at his word (and I don't). That means Nunes got toally freaked out about something the IC had on Trump in addition to the Russia stuff.[/]

[red dog 1]

15. K&R!

Gowdy got caught telling a boldfaced lie...period!

[littlemissmartypants]

16. A barking dog is a nervous dog. eom

[Hassin Bin Sober]

17. Clean out Gowdy and the rest of the spy nest.

[Chipper Chat]

24. It's extremely easy to accomplish this.

All democrats just need to VOTE in the 2018 misterms. Go to the polls and vote!
Result: a huge democratic majority in the house possibly 330 to 88. Don't gasp.

[magicarpet]

18. Gowdy's...... preconceived notions

Foment confusion.

Construction elaborate smoke screens

Create a fog of indecipherable confusion and uncertainties

Layer upon layer of alternate realities, one gets weary sorting it all out, throws their hands up on disgust, and then storm off to avoid the severity of the migraine headache brought about due to all the fabrications.

Gowdy's the word-smith
Gowdy's the former prosecutor
Gowdy's the lawyer with the shyster tongue

[riversedge]

19. Intelligence committee members disagree on dust-up involving Devin Nunes: Schiff v Gowday..

One of the last persons on Earth that I would believe is Gowdy!




CBS News March 26, 2017, 1:31 PM
Intelligence committee members disagree on dust-up involving Devin Nunes

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/intelligence-committee-members-disagree-about-dust-up-involving-devin-nunes/



WASHINGTON -- The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee believes that the chairman of the committee, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., is in danger of being perceived as a partisan surrogate of the Trump White House.

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.,, said on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” “I think the chairman has to make a decision, whether to act as a surrogate of the White House, as he did during the campaign and the transition, or to lead a independent and credible investigation. I hope he chooses the latter.”

Nunes and Schiff have been openly fighting since last week, after Nunes told reporters and the White House Wednesday that President Trump’s personal communications might have been picked up by the intelligence community through “incidental collection.” He made the remarks before he had briefed his colleagues on the committee, Republicans and Democrats alike.



Gowdy defends Nunes' briefing of Trump on communications collection
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Gowdy defends Nunes' briefing of Trump on communications collection

It’s still the case that none of the members of the committee have been briefed on what Nunes was talking about last week, Schiff said -- “we’re all quite in the dark on this,” he told “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., who also sits on the Intelligence Committee, confirmed that he has also not been briefed on the information that Nunes has. He, however, holds a different view of the chairman’s information-sharing with the president.

“The chairman of House Intel briefed the commander-in-chief on something that has nothing to do with the Russia investigation,” Gowdy said on “Face the Nation.” “So if the commander-in-chief cannot be briefed by the chairperson of the House Intel Committee on a matter that has nothing to do with the F.B.I. investigation, then I don’t know what they can talk about, John.”

Last week, Nunes said ..............................

[YOHABLO]

20. Nunes is on the committee investigating the President! Trey you're a dumbass.

[machoneman]

25. I'm starting to think that Trump....

winning may turn out to be the best thing to turn many more states blue, dumping Republiscum governors, representatives and senators.

Sure, we are all suffering in the meantime but I can't help but think of the stone walls Hillary would have encountered if the 'Scums still controlled the House and Senate. This way, just maybe, they will destroy the GOP for a decade or two....preferably about 50 years!

[Scarsdale]

26. Hopefully!

That would be the very best thing to happen to this country. We have to precent tRump from doing too much damage between now and Impeachment. Looking at little Trey, I hear dueling banjoes. He looks like a character from "Deliverance" or "The Hills have Eyes". Corrupt little turd.

[Justice]

27. The new low is that people like Trey think if R after name means telling truth and if D

then lying.