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Have I ever mentioned how much I love this guy?
Please, please, please ask this:
“What did you know about Nunes and when did you stop knowing it?”
I guarantee you it will bring down the hearing room.
Good for Cummings to put the heat on McMaster, as the General will have to decide to be either complicit in a possible illegal activity within the NSC, or admit he is nothing more than a door mat, after all one of th guys in the controversy is the one he tried to fire a few weeks ago.
I suspect McMaster is pretty angry about the whole thing, and he is behind the leaking of the names to the NYT.
Though it should be fairly simple for the White House to check visitor logs to confirm who let Nunes onto White House grounds on March 21, it has so far not done so.
Those can’t be obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request?
ETA: Guess not. Court of Appeals ruled a few years back. (Ironically Merrick Garland wrote the ruling)
Bulldog thy name is Elijah. And thank goodness for it.
Cummings pointed out in his letter that Spicer said on March 23 “it doesn’t really pass the smell test” that Nunes would brief the White House on information he had been given by White House officials.They probably thought, "Hey, it worked in the Cheney Adminstration, so why not here?"
Also, having Nunes slip out the back door with the intel and then make a show of sauntering in the front door with the intel, is completely unlike every caper movie or magic trick ever made. No one would ever expect this administration to do that sort of “thing.” (What’s that word? There’s a word for that sort of trick. I just can’t put my finger on it.) In any case, they have confidence that no one would ever believe that of them.
Must have been a different case than when the Pubes sued to get the visitors logs when Hillary was working on healthcare.
The query is sent to McMaster and McGahn specifically. Looking for conflicting replies?
I love that Cummings is going after this. McMaster appears to have some professionalism at stake. McGahn his ability to practice law?
Well said. Though this seems like a minor thing, there is really no good answer to these pointed questions, and it is another pressure point on the administration.
“Cummings Ask Senior WH Officials: What Did You Know About Nunes, And When?”
This sounds an awful lot like Nixon: “What did the President know, and when did he know it?”
Keep going Rep. Cummings, WaPo, NYT, TPM, etc. There is a lot to uncover here.
Though it should be fairly simple for the White House to check visitor logs to confirm who let Nunes onto White House grounds on March 21, it has so far not done so.
It doesn’t need to. New policy is already in effect: the White House no longer makes the visitor’s log public.
They can stop knowing about Nunes’ visits all they want so long as that remains policy.