Nunes’ days in the House may well be numbered.
Voters in his district held a candle light vigil and hung “missing” posters of Nunes after his refusal to hold town hall meetings 
. The local coverage of the event likely did some real damage.
Dont think this augurs well for his chances in 2018.
Nunes just told Wolf Blitzer that his rendezvous was not, in fact, in the dead of night but that it was “still daylight” and it was real casual, you know, he stopped and said hello to several “foreign dignitaries.”
Hmmm, foreign dignitaries? Maybe he ran into Sebastian Gorka in the rose garden in full dress uniform and thought he was a foreign dignitary?
What Hugh Dumf*ck has just told us is that our intelligence services were listening in on scumbags when said scumbags spoke with douchebags at Trump Tower. They are terrified it won’t end there, that someone will ask who were the respective ‘bags’ involved and what were they communicating about?
Putin’s Bitch was hailing leaks and leakers on the campaign trail … that sounds like suborning leaks to me. You opened the gates now I hope a Russian smoking gun is tossed out.
The assumption actually is, team Trump has someone going through the
intercepts 24/7 at the White House looking for smoking gun indictment or
impeachment evidence against the Trump cabal, and they found something.
Nune’s was summoned for a heads up stall or defense strategy.
I’m not sure I agree with that. I think the Trumps/Kushners and most of their closest “associates” are dirty dirty dirty with Russian mob ties and money, but my gut tells me that a lot of the other people involved, like Pence/Ryan/Nunes got drawn into this mess because they thought Trump would/could deliver on their conservative agenda. And now they are all complicit and drowning in it also.
Yes, this is the way it works. There are several guard houses. The one Nunes probably used is on the west side. Members of Congress do not have carte blanche authority to come to the WH whenever they want and just wander around. Not even Cabinet members have that right.
At each guard house, secret service officers have a list (updated in real time) of non-White House staff who have been given permission to enter the complex for a specific purpose. For each such person, there is also the name of the White House staffer who has given permission; the expected time of arrival; the person they are meeting with; and the room number or name.
The meeting will eirher be in the White House, itself (yes, the West Wing) or the much larger Executive Office Building right next door, separated from the WH by a small outdoor parking lot. The visitor is then directed to a lobby area in the aporopriate building where the person waits until the WH staffer (or his secretary) who invited him comes and gets him. When the meeting is over, they are escorted back and out of the complex.
There are always a few people who have been given what in the old days were called -if I remember correctly - A-Passes, which gave them permission to come and go as they please, even including the residence. But, as you would guess, these passes were always severely limited to family and a few very close friends. The possibility that Nunes had one of those passes is less than zero.
So, you are right. There would certainly be a record of Nunes’s meetings at the WH. The Democrats should demand to see it and subpeona the appropriate WH staff and Secret Service guards who handled his entrance and exit.
Hope this helps.
Look at the pattern. This started out as a money laundering operation for Russian intelligence, the Iranians and other countries under US sanctions by Donald Trump, Ivank Trump and Jared Kushner. The Russians were aware that Preshitident Trump was a sexual predator who like to grab and grope and they provided him with hookers. However, this was not simply an exchange of sexual favors for Preshitident Trump or a criminal financial scheme by Trump, Pence and Ryan to enrich themselves even though money was involved.
Many people think the plan was to divide 20% of the proceeds from the sale of Rosneft to the Trumps, Pence, Ryan, Ross, Priebus, Tillorsen and other friendly folks in the Republican leadership in exchange for promoting Russian occupation of Ukraine, trashing NATO etc.
However, Paul Ryan who was Chair of the Convention invited the Russian ambassador and Russian intelligence to the Republican convention and gave them unfettered access to the Trump team including Flynn, Sessions, Pence.
The tentacles of Russian intelligence are more deeply embedded in the Republican leadership, in the intelligence agencies and in the states than you can imagine. The role of Russian intelligence and Putin in the 2016 election went far beyond providing information, hacking and intelligence.