devin nunes - Forum - Command Center2024-03-28T10:03:42Zhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/feed/tag/devin+nunesJudicial Watch: House Lawyers for Adam Schiff Assert Privilege over Schiff Subpoenas of Impeachment Phone Recordshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/judicial-watch-house-lawyers-for-adam-schiff-assert-privilege-ove2020-05-28T22:57:28.000Z2020-05-28T22:57:28.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}5432614284,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}5432614284,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="500" alt="5432614284?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><strong>(Washington, DC) –</strong> Judicial Watch announced today that Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) and the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/jw-v-schiff-motion-to-dismiss-03790/" target="_blank">to dismiss</a> the lawsuit against them for the controversial impeachment-related subpoenas for phone records, including those of Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer. Schiff and the Committee are being represented by the Office of General Counsel for the House of Representatives.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">The phone records led to the <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/trump-ukraine-impeachment-inquiry-report-december-2019/" target="_blank">publication</a> of the private phone records of Giuliani, Congressman Devin Nunes, journalist John Solomon, Trump attorney Jay Sekulow, attorney Victoria Toensing, and other American citizens.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">In their 14-page motion Schiff and the Committee claim “sovereign immunity;” “Speech or Debate Clause” privilege; immunity from FOIA and transparency law; that the records are secret; and that Judicial Watch and public do not need to see them.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Judicial Watch filed its <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-rep-schiff-and-the-house-intelligence-committee-for-phone-subpoenas-targeting-trump/" target="_blank">lawsuit</a> under the public’s common-law right of public access to examine government records after it received no response to a December 6, 2019, records request (<a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/jw-v-schiff-subpoenas-and-comms-complaint-03790/" target="_blank"><em>Judicial Watch v. v Adam Schiff and U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence</em></a> (No. 1:19-03790)):</p>
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<li class="x_MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">All subpoenas issued by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on or about September 30, 2019 to any telecommunications provider including, but not limited to AT&T, Inc., for all records of telephone calls of any individuals</li>
<li class="x_MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">All responses received to the above subpoenas.</li>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Schiff is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, currently serving as chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Schiff is being sued in his capacity as Chairman of that committee.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">read more here: <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-house-lawyers-for-adam-schiff-assert-privilege-over-schiff-subpoenas-of-impeachment-phone-records/">https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-house-lawyers-for-adam-schiff-assert-privilege-over-schiff-subpoenas-of-impeachment-phone-records/</a></p></div>Devin Nunes: Republicans expanding investigation into Mueller teamhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/devin-nunes-republicans-expanding-investigation-into-mueller-team2020-05-26T11:00:40.000Z2020-05-26T11:00:40.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}5358788655,RESIZE_1200x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}5358788655,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="500" alt="5358788655?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></p>
<p>Republicans are broadening their investigation into special counsel Robert Mueller as the Obamagate controversy heats up.</p>
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<p>Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, said fresh criminal referrals are imminent as more people come forward with information about what Trump allies view to have been a plot to undermine the president.</p>
<p>"We’ve also expanded our investigation into the Mueller team and everything that happened with Mueller and the people at DOJ and FBI that were above Mueller. And so, we will be making criminal referrals in the coming weeks against the Mueller team. We're just now putting that together and, of course, as always, waiting on more documents that we really need to come out," the California congressman told Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on <em>Witch Hunt: The Flynn Vindication</em>, a special program that aired Sunday evening.</p>
<p>It has been more than a year since Mueller wrapped up his special counsel investigation. His team was unable to find a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, but it did lay out 10 instances of possible obstruction of justice that Democrats seized on as a road map to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/supreme-court-blocks-house-judiciary-committee-from-obtaining-mueller-grand-jury-records" target="_blank">impeachment</a>. The investigation also led to convictions and guilty pleas from Trump associates over charges unrelated to Russia collusion. Trump and many of his allies have long derided the inquiry as a "witch hunt," and there is now an effort underway by the Justice Department to seek out any misconduct by the investigators.</p>
<p>Nunes says Mueller should have shut down his investigation right away, arguing that the former FBI director knew from the day he became special counsel in May 2017 that there was no coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-republicans-expanding-investigation-into-mueller-team">https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-republicans-expanding-investigation-into-mueller-team</a></p></div>Susan Rice's resurfaced 2017 comments denying knowledge of Trump team surveillance raise eyebrowshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/susan-rice-s-resurfaced-2017-comments-denying-knowledge-of-trump-2020-05-20T23:44:06.000Z2020-05-20T23:44:06.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}5206608078,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}5206608078,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="525" height="747" alt="5206608078?profile=RESIZE_400x" /></a>A three-year-old interview clip of former National Security Adviser Susan Rice resurfaced Tuesday after the declassified email she sent to herself on the final day of the Obama administration was released.</p>
<p class="speakable">During an April 2017 appearance on PBS News Hour, Rice was asked about the then-breaking revelations about members of President Trump's transition team having been surveilled before he took office.</p>
<p>"In the last few hours, we've been following a disclosure by the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, that in essence, during the final days of the Obama administration, during the transition after President Trump had been elected, that he and the people around him may have been caught up in surveillance of foreign individuals and their identities may have been disclosed. Do you know anything about this?" PBS anchor Judy Woodruff asked.</p>
<p>"I know nothing about this," Rice said at the time. "I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today."</p>
<p>Rice then pivoted to Trump's accusation that then-President Barack Obama had "wiretapped" him during the 2016 election, insisting that "nothing of the sort occurred." She later insisted that "no president, no White House can order the surveillance of another American citizen. That can only come from the Justice Department with the approval of a FISA court."</p>
<p>She later stressed that Nunes' assertion at the time was that the surveillance was "legal and lawful" and that it was a "potentially incidental collection."</p>
<p>"That means that the target was either a foreign entity or somebody under criminal investigation and that the Americans who were talking to those targets may have been picked up," Rice explained.</p>
<p>However, the newly released email appeared to indicate Rice had knowledge of the surveillance that took place that led to the "unmasking" of then-incoming National Security Adviser (NSA) <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/michael-flynn">Michael Flynn</a> from his communications with the then-Russian ambassador.</p>
<p>The email, which was written on Jan. 20, 2017, documented a Jan. 5 Oval Office meeting with then-President Obama and others, during which he provided guidance on how law enforcement needed to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race. Parts of it were released previously, but the section on then-FBI Director James Comey's response had been classified as "TOP SECRET" until now.</p>
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<p>read more here: <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/susan-rice-resurfaced-2017-comments-deny-knowledge-trump-team-surveillance-flynn">https://www.foxnews.com/politics/susan-rice-resurfaced-2017-comments-deny-knowledge-trump-team-surveillance-flynn</a></p></div>Devin Nunes Discusses Criminal Referrals and Perspective of Susan Rice Memo…https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/devin-nunes-discusses-criminal-referrals-and-perspective-of-susan2020-05-20T12:10:04.000Z2020-05-20T12:10:04.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e2lPxQQol1o" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
h/t: <a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/05/19/devin-nunes-discusses-criminal-referrals-and-perspective-of-susan-rice-memo/">https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/05/19/devin-nunes-discusses-criminal-referrals-and-perspective-of-susan-rice-memo/</a></div>Devin Nunes: "We Can't Find" FBI's Original Michael Flynn Interview 302 Report; "It's Gone, Poof"https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/devin-nunes-we-can-t-find-fbi-s-original-michael-flynn-interview-2020-05-12T18:25:14.000Z2020-05-12T18:25:14.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p> </p>
<p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4958206873,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4958206873,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="500" alt="4958206873?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a>Rep. Devin Nunes, ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that the original documents summarizing the FBI interview where Micahel Flynn is alleged to have perjured himself are "missing."</p>
<p>"The original report that was used to brief the United States Congress, that report is missing. It's gone, poof, we can't find it," Nunes told Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Devin Nunes tells <a href="https://twitter.com/MariaBartiromo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MariaBartiromo</a> this morning the "original report that was used to brief the United States Congress" about the FBI's investigation into Michael Flynn is "gone, poof, we can't find it." -- <a href="https://t.co/8DfnPLwsbJ">https://t.co/8DfnPLwsbJ</a> -- <a href="https://twitter.com/dcexaminer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dcexaminer</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DevinNunes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DevinNunes</a> <a href="https://t.co/C3xHB2J1Cu">pic.twitter.com/C3xHB2J1Cu</a></p>
— Daniel Chaitin (@danielchaitin7) <a href="https://twitter.com/danielchaitin7/status/1259531153087832066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>read here: <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/05/10/devin_nunes_we_cant_find_original_michael_flynn_interview_smmary_its_gone_poof.html">https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/05/10/devin_nunes_we_cant_find_original_michael_flynn_interview_smmary_its_gone_poof.html</a></p></div>Matt Gaetz takes stunning shots at Gowdy for squashing subpoenas when GOP had powerhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/matt-gaetz-takes-stunning-shots-at-gowdy-for-squashing-subpoenas-2020-05-09T14:11:05.000Z2020-05-09T14:11:05.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4875294684,RESIZE_1200x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4875294684,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="500" alt="4875294684?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></p>
<p>Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz took a stunning shot Friday evening not at Democrats but rather at two of his colleagues — or former colleagues, that is.</p>
<p>Minutes after former House Oversight Committee chair Trey Gowdy spoke with Fox News host Sean Hannity about the <a href="https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/05/08/reason-for-schiffs-reported-panic-becomes-clear-as-he-scrambles-to-release-transcripts-ahead-of-acting-dni-grenell-918209" target="_blank">just-unearthed questions</a> he’d asked of Obama-era officials during the committee’s own Russian collusion investigation in late 2017 and early 2018, Gaetz showed up with some unexpected pushback.</p>
<p>“I’m glad you went through Trey Gowdy’s exquisite questions in 2017 to these corrupt officials,” he said almost sarcastically on FNC’s “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/shows/hannity" target="_blank">Hannity</a>.”</p>
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— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1258933210026840066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>Those remarks were eagerly broadcast by the media at the time as a “rebuke” of the president’s <a href="https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/08/21/fmr-us-attorney-implicates-obama-in-trump-spying-787906" target="_blank">since-confirmed</a> “Spygate” allegations.</p>
<p>“Both of those things [Gowdy said to MacCallum]<strong> </strong>have now been proven to be not true, and it seems that Gowdy’s brilliant lawyering back in 2017 that we’re only able to see now proves those statements untrue,” Gaetz continued.</p>
<p>Transcripts from the House Oversight Committee’s Russian collusion investigation were finally released this week by current committee chair Adam Schiff, a Democrat, after pressure was <a href="https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/05/07/schiff-reportedly-in-panic-mode-over-release-of-impending-transcripts-that-blow-up-russian-collusion-917771" target="_blank">applied by</a> acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell.</p>
<p>These transcripts show Gowdy hammering Obama-era officials such as Andrew McCabe, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Ben Rhodes and Sally Yates with tough questions about their Russian collusion delusion investigation.</p>
<p>More tellingly, they show these same officials replying with answers that Gowdy himself admitted earlier Friday evening “ought to scare the hell out of you.”</p>
<p>Yet when questioned about this same matter in May of 2018, Gowdy turned around and defended these Obama-era officials. And years later, <a href="https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/02/14/swamp-wins-again-doj-drops-criminal-charges-against-andrew-mccabe-and-closes-case-887096" target="_blank">not a single one</a> of these figures has been held accountable.</p>
<p>“<strong>The number one question I get asked from Americans is why no one is gone to jail and been held accountable</strong>,” Gaetz noted, adding that part of the reason why is because the GOP had failed at its duties when it controlled the House.</p>
<p>“<strong>Unfortunately, when [Devin] Nunes, [Mark] Meadows, [Jim] Jordan and I wanted subpoena power, it was [then-House Speaker] Paul Ryan and [Oversight Committee chair] Trey Gowdy who wouldn’t give us that power</strong>,” he said.</p>
<p>“<strong>Democrats sent out hundreds of subpoenas when we had control and could have run this to ground in 2017. We didn’t send out a single subpoena. Not one. And that’s a failure of our Republican leadership</strong>.”</p>
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<p>read more here: <a href="https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/05/09/gaetz-takes-stunning-shot-at-gowdy-for-squashing-subpoenas-when-gop-had-power-and-defending-fbi-918631?utm_campaign=bizpac&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Get+Response&utm_term=EMAIL">https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/05/09/gaetz-takes-stunning-shot-at-gowdy-for-squashing-subpoenas-when-gop-had-power-and-defending-fbi-918631?utm_campaign=bizpac&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Get+Response&utm_term=EMAIL</a></p></div>Pressure mounts on Wray as FBI behavior in Russia case comes into clearer focushttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/pressure-mounts-on-wray-as-fbi-behavior-in-russia-case-comes-into2020-05-04T16:29:44.000Z2020-05-04T16:29:44.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4724526478,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4724526478,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="500" alt="4724526478?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></p>
<p>Back in early 2018, the FBI under newly minted Director Chris Wray issued an extraordinarily rare public rebuke of a sitting House committee chairman.</p>
<p>Then-House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes had just issued a memo concluding that the FBI under Wray’s predecessor, James Comey, abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process to improperly spy on President Trump’s campaign.</p>
<p>Wray fired back, even though the issues didn’t happen on his watch, suggesting Nunes had given an inaccurate picture to the American public.</p>
<p>“We have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy,” <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-statement-on-hpsci-memo">the bureau said in a statement</a> that reverberated across America, especially with mainstream media that had pushed the faulty Russia collusion narrative for months.</p>
<p>Now two years later, Nunes’ memo has been vindicated by the belated release of classified information and a Justice Department inspector general's report that confirmed systematic FISA abuses and much wider problems inside the FBI.</p>
<p>Lawmakers, particularly Republicans, have expressed grave concerns about Wray’s leadership, his reluctance to recognize the magnitude of problems inside the bureau exposed by the Russia case fallout, and his slow release of information, which some see as foot-dragging.</p>
<p>“There is so much underneath the surface of the ocean, this iceberg that we haven’t even seen yet,” Rep. Andy Biggs, a House Judiciary Committee member and chairman of the influential Freedom Caucus, told Just the News. “And when you get back to Christopher Wray, that is part of my frustration. … More has to be declassified.”</p>
<p>“I have had access to 302s [FBI interview reports] that I have asked, for gosh a good year or so -- and I know others have too-- that they would declassify those. And they keep telling us, 'yeah they are in the process,' and they never declassify them,” Biggs said in a wide-ranging interview with the John Solomon Reports podcast. “They’ve got to be declassified.</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/pressure-mounts-christopher-wray-fbi-behavior-russia">https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/pressure-mounts-christopher-wray-fbi-behavior-russia</a></p></div>