House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) leaned into Republicans’ “investigate the investigators” attack against former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation at the start of Wednesday’s hearing with Mueller.
“Welcome, everyone, to the last gasp of the Russia collusion conspiracy theory,” Nunes began.
Over several minutes, the Trump ally proceeded to name several Russia probe characters that Mueller had just told the House Judiciary Committee he could not discuss, including Fusion GPS, which commissioned the so-called “Steele Dossier,” and conservative bogeymen Bruce Ohr, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
Throughout, Nunes painted the Mueller probe as he has for months, as a political effort undertaken by Democrats.
“Like the Loch Ness Monster, they insist [evidence of collusion] is there, even if no one can find it,” Nunes said of Democrats, asserting later that real “collusion in plain sight” was between “Russia and the Democratic Party.”
“Welcome, everyone, to the last gasp of the Russia collusion conspiracy theory,” said ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes, echoing President Trump in his opening to Robert Mueller’s testimony before the committee #MuellerHearings https://t.co/Ea5LrfTSdF pic.twitter.com/eeZcxziHO4
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Try, hard, to imagine what these two men are thinking as they stare at each other.
Schiff is point-man in the vital effort to take down a lawless president protected by a lawless party.
Nunes is a known traitor who gladly acts as a megaphone for the craziest musings of the right-wing fever swamps.
These men are, by necessity, mortal enemies.
A bit OT but … White(s Only) House sources are saying Cockholster is considering Cudsucker to replace Dan Coats as Director of National Intelligence.
Bruce Ohr is a career FBI agent who has an expertise in Russian organized crime and money laundering. In the 80’s and 90’s he was instrumental in breaking up Dominican gangs in upper Manhattan. Tell me again why he’s become a bete noire of the wingnut brigade?
Devin Nunes, Director of National Intelligence.
It’s the height of Dickensian irony.
It’s like making Mick Mulvaney Director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, or putting Jeff Sessions in charge of civil rights enforcement, or asking Donald Trump to look out for the welfare of anyone except Donald J Trump.
Watch your language! Seems mine is a bit too much for our readers and or TPM.