Just heard Nunes is stepping away from Intel Committee

[Fanatical Meat]

Good news, however Mr. Benghazi is taking over, bad news
No link it was on TV

 

[Thebobo]

good and ugh if true but I dont see anything about pickle lips Benghazi taking over.

http://www.businessinsider.com/devin-nunes-house-intelligence-committee-russia-investigation-2017-4

 

[MomentsofSanity]

http://www.mediaite.com/online/brea...-devin-nunes-to-step-down-from-investigation/

Just from the investigation, not the committee.

It's the right move after the whole show of going to the White House to view docs presented by the admin, then running back the next day to tell the admin what he saw.

 

[emperus]

He's supposedly under investigation in the ethics committee for disclosing classified information.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...tion-of-devin-nunes-for-spilling-secrets.html

 

[hal2kilo]

Good news, however Mr. Benghazi is taking over, bad news
No link it was on TV

From the frying pan to the fire. Gowdy, Gowdy, Gowdy

I soo wish Noones hadn't compromised himself. He actually seemed to be sane and objective up until the Whitehouse visit. Gowdy, is just a pure unadulterated partisan hack.

 

[Thebobo]

From the frying pan to the fire. Gowdy, Gowdy, Gowdy

I soo wish Noones hadn't compromised himself. He actually seemed to be sane and objective up until the Whitehouse visit. Gowdy, is just a pure unadulterated partisan hack.

I agree with you about Narrow head McGowdy but I haven't seen it in the news yet.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Google fails on a replacement.

I don't know if it would be done, but with Nunes off the investigation can he be brought in to disclose what happened at the WH? Nunes won't talk of his own volition, however when there is potential conflict in an ongoing investigation it seems prudent to discover what happened, innocent or not.

 

[vi edit]

Mike Conaway (Texas) is taking point, Gowdy 2nd fiddle.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

He's supposedly under investigation in the ethics committee for disclosing classified information.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...tion-of-devin-nunes-for-spilling-secrets.html

He cited that in a broadcast segment. Sounds like he's walking away until the ethics question is resolved.

 

[Thebobo]

Mike Conway Another religious zealot Texan .

http://www.ontheissues.org/TX/Mike_Conaway.htm

 

[woolfe9998]

Yes, he's stepping away, but partisan to the last:

Several leftwing activist groups have filed accusations against me with the Office of Congressional Ethics. The charges are entirely false and politically motivated, and are being leveled just as the American people are beginning to learn the truth about the improper unmasking of the identities of U.S. citizens and other abuses of power. Despite the baselessness of the charges, I believe it is in the best interests of the House Intelligence Committee and the Congress for me to have Representative Mike Conaway, with assistance from Representatives Trey Gowdy and Tom Rooney, temporarily take charge of the Committee's Russia investigation while the House Ethics Committee looks into this matter.

Once again illustrating why he should never have been leading this investigation to begin with.

Good riddance.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Yes, he's stepping away, but partisan to the last:



Once again illustrating why he should never have been leading this investigation to begin with.

Good riddance.

You are the legal guy and while this may not be your area of expertise you must know more than I.

To repeat my earlier question, can Nunes now be called to testify as to his actions regarding the White House? IMO Nunes became a participant in whatever happened once he decided on his own to go beyond his role on the committee.

 

[hal2kilo]

Mike Conaway (Texas) is taking point, Gowdy 2nd fiddle.

That's a relief, I think.

 

[zinfamous]

So glad that Trump drained that swamp.

 

[woolfe9998]

You are the legal guy and while this may not be your area of expertise you must know more than I.

To repeat my earlier question, can Nunes now be called to testify as to his actions regarding the White House? IMO Nunes became a participant in whatever happened once he decided on his own to go beyond his role on the committee.

Unless there is a federal statute which says a sitting Congressman can't be called to testify at a Congressional hearing, yes. I can't conceive that any such statute exists, but I can't say for certain.

As a practical matter, however, it is the decision of the committee whether to call him, and it doesn't seem all that likely that any GOP would back it. Maybe in the Senate committee.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Unless there is a federal statute which says a sitting Congressman can't be called to testify at a Congressional hearing, yes. I can't conceive that any such statute exists, but I can't say for certain.

As a practical matter, however, it is the decision of the committee whether to call him, and it doesn't seem all that likely that any GOP would back it. Maybe in the Senate committee.

Thanks for that. So possible but not likely. This is a serious fault in our system, where having a majority automatically shields people from examination of a majority member.

 

[woolfe9998]

Thanks for that. So possible but not likely. This is a serious fault in our system, where having a majority automatically shields people from examination of a majority member.

Yes, and the ethics committee that is reviewing these complaints is another body subject to partisan politics, though at least it is required by rule to have equal numbers from each party. The Office of Congressional Ethics is a non-partisan body which can investigate and make recommendations to the committee. Bear in mind that the GOP tried to get away with destroying the independence of this body as the first act of the new Congress under Trump, but had to back off when the press reported on what they were doing. Not sure if the OCE will be involved here.

In my opinion, all ethics complaints should be evaluated entirely by a non-partisan independent commission with the power to impose sanctions on members and to recommend prosecution by relevant authorities. There really shouldn't even be a congressional committee on ethics as Congress cannot investigate its own members in a non-partisan way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/...to-hobble-independent-ethics-office.html?_r=0

 

[Jhhnn]

Unless there is a federal statute which says a sitting Congressman can't be called to testify at a Congressional hearing, yes. I can't conceive that any such statute exists, but I can't say for certain.

As a practical matter, however, it is the decision of the committee whether to call him, and it doesn't seem all that likely that any GOP would back it. Maybe in the Senate committee.

Senate committee? Hell, The Repubs just glossed right over Sessions lying at his confirmation, same with Pruitt. None of 'em will be going after Nunes, either, but he did screw the pooch. Repubs need to get him off the investigation to even attempt a plausible whitewash.

 

[VRAMdemon]

Devin Nunes said: - "The charges are entirely false and politically motivated, and are being leveled just as the American people are beginning to learn the truth about the improper unmaking of the identities of U.S. citizens and other abuses of power."

This is the political equivalent of a cheating husband saying the problem isn't that he spent $3000 on call girls, it's that his wife found the escort service business card in his pants pocket