Devin Nunes just sent Jeff Sessions a letter accusing the FBI of breaking the law

[highplainsdem]

Source: Raw Story

House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) sent Attorney General Jeff Sessions a letter on Thursday accusing the FBI of breaking the law when acquiring surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

In the letter, which was obtained by Fox News, Nunes claims the bureau violated the Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide by obtaining warrants for Page on the alleged base of an unverified dossier that purports as evidence of ties between Donald Trump and the Kremlin and other Russian individuals.

The letter to Sessions takes the allegations outline in the House Intelligence Committee memo declassified by the president in January that laid the basis for the claim that the FBI used the so-called “golden showers dossier” to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against Page. Page, however, had been under FISA surveillance since 2014, when the FBI became suspicious of his ties to Russian entities.

Sessions on Tuesday announced an internal investigation into the claim that anti-Trump bias is widespread within the Justice Department. On Wednesday, Trump called his AG “disgraceful” on Twitter for not investigating President Barack Obama, only to be rebuked by Sessions, who said he and the DOJ would “continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner according to the law and the Constitution.”

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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/devin-nunes-just-sent-jeff-sessions-letter-accusing-fbi-breaking-law/

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Text of the letter at the link.

Trump's House flunky just keeps flunkying along. Sigh.

Btw, I'm using the Raw Story link rather than Fox News because of course Fox is treating Nunes's latest crap too seriously.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I think I'll write a letter to Sessions accusing Rep. Nunes of

breaking the law and being a traitor to the United States.

[justgamma]

2. I'm sure there is an anti-Trump bias.

The FBI hates crooks and liars. That is their job.

[SergeStorms]

18. Exactly.

There's so much crooked crap in Trump's past and present to keep an army of investigators busy for years. After you've found out what a vile, loathsome individual Trump is, it's difficult to not form a negative bias against the moron that's accusing them of being crooked and out of control.

Screw Nunes. I can't wait until he's frog marched into custody for his many crimes. Hopefully they'll chain Ryan to Nunes and kill two jailbirds with one arrest warrant.

[cstanleytech]

3. How about an investigation into Nunes and his Russian connections?

[Angry Dragon]

4. How did Fox get the letter??

[Autumn]

6. From Trumps mouthpiece, Nunie.

[Freethinker65]

5. Nunes is getting nervous again

[Silver1]

7. So ...

... how much legal ground does this actually have? All of this is so convoluted. So many details, the timeline, so many characters involved. Hard to make sense of it. Is this more fog?? Throw it out there and see what sticks?

If the charges against Carter Paige are dropped, what else falls down with them?

[ThoughtCriminal]

9. Zero

[Silver1]

14. OK.

So why is Nunes doing this? Where is he going with this?

[ThoughtCriminal]

15. Nunes is up to his eyeballs trying to cover for Trump

and himself.

[leftynyc]

21. He's trying to change the subject

This has been a brutal week for donnie in the news - hicks leaving, jarad unable to secure clearance, his approval rating stuck at an abysmal number, kids forcing him to deal with the gun issue putting him at odds with the nra (not a place any gop-er wants to be in). That's all this is. Oh, and nunes is russian compromised scum.

[Silver1]

24. This is a fiasco.

Unprecedented.

I'm having trouble keeping up. All I see is a lot of cards flying around in the air. They never seem to fall.

What is next?

[vkkv]

8. Good luck Devin! Perhaps you and Carter Page can share a prison cell?

You'd LIKE that.. wouldn't ya, Devin...

[Gothmog]

10. No one takes Nunes seriously

Nunes has become a joke

[The Wizard]

11. Federal prison awaits Nunes (NT)

[bunt homer]

12. Trump's flunky?

No, Putin's flunky!

[duforsure]

13. I'll Celebrate

The day he's indicted and convicted of his crimes he's committed against this country in the name of trump.

[SunSeeker]

16. You're projecting, Devin.

[olddad56]

17. Nunes days are numbered

[Sophia4]

19. Republicans are trying to get evidence produced by the wiretaps of Carter Page so placed in doubt

that a judge might not allow them to be brought into evidence.

But Mueller is likely to deal with any question about them very wisely and fairly.

[Vinca]

22. Nunes has got to be working for Vlad. Nothing else makes sense.

[malthaussen]

23. Well, I see two possibilities here...

... either Devin Nunes is a great statesman, standing lonely and alone with the true knowledge of how our federal law enforcement agencies are conspiring to undermine the government of the United States...

... or he's a pathetic criminal loser trying desperately to save his own worthless ass.

Oh, I'm all a-dither. Which is true?

-- Mal