If would have been bigger news if he had.
“It is deeply disturbing, because if this was shared by New York field agents with Devin Nunes, was it also shared with Rudy Giuliani?” he said. “Or did Devin Nunes do something which we have seen subsequently, which is coordinate with the Trump team? Was this information shared by the committee with Rudy Giuliani, or shared directly with him?”
“We don’t know the answer, but we hope the inspector general will find out.”
Did Schiff end that with a deep, malevolent laugh?
“It is deeply disturbing, because if this was shared by New York field agents with Devin Nunes, was it also shared with Rudy Giuliani?” he said. “Or did Devin Nunes do something which we have seen subsequently, which is coordinate with the Trump team? Was this information shared by the committee with Rudy Giuliani, or shared directly with him?”
A neatly executed stiletto, Adam.
This was not “whistleblowing” and these were not “good FBI agents”, involving themselves in a pernicious way days before the election in order to influence its outcome.
At the very least, Nunes needs to be investigated by either Mueller or the DoJ IG. This entire scenario stinks to high heaven. And let’s not forget Nunes was placed onto the Trump transition team shortly after. I wonder why and what else he may have done.
I suspect there’s a lot of information Nunes shared with the White House and didn’t share with Democrats on the House Intel Committee. Possibly, he didn’t share the info with all the GOP members of the committee. He’s Trump’s water carrier. Did Nunes commit a crime? I’d love to see him indicted for something.
Interesting that the deadline got pushed back given that the sworn declaration will say that “we haven’t done a bloody thing.” Why do they need so much time to say that the request was ignored? Folks getting their “stories” rectified with one another? Something else going on?
How many FBI agents communications have been checked to find indications of anti-Clinton bias?
Schiff was a prosecutor in the Mueller and Chuck Rosenthal mode; no laughing, just convicting. And now still trying to get the truth out.
A “shiv” can now properly be re-named a “Schiff”…
Kinda off topic but Dave Roberts succinctly defines the “ground rules” of political press civerage.
https://twitter.com/drvox/status/1007726583916867584
The takeaway is that the media, itself, has to undertake the corrective action. Heavy and aggressive pushback by Democrats has the effect of reinforcing the asymmetry. Yes, it’s counterintuitive.
“We don’t know the answer, but we hope the inspector general will find out.”
Nah, no one is interested in that who could do anything about it.
There are Hillary’s emails still out there…
No idea? We know what happened to it. It was shelved as unimportant.
We’ll have to wait until the Dems take control of Congressto find out. Until then, it will be “nothing to see here, folks — except that the Deep State was conspiring against Trump! So ineffectively they got him elected, sure, but they were all against him!”
Let us also not forget that Nunes is a California Republican, and his California Republican cohort is Rohrabacker, whom another GOPer, on record, suggested is getting paid by the Russians.
I’m curious how much of Giuliani’s “attack dog” nonsense is to protect his own role in all of this and not just Trump’s.
Or someone in the FBI or IC gets really pissed off by Trump’s attacks on them, goes all “oh fuck this shit”, and goes leaky on their asses.
It will be the happiest day of my life when that yellow bellied weasel is charged with something
It’s incredibly frustrating that the script is being flipped -that the criminality perpetrated by Trump and the Republicans is not only being obfuscated, but Dems are being accused as being the guilty party !!..and the media appears, by and large, to be completely incapable of pointing this out.