Devin Nunes

Devin Nunes Oversimplifies Timeline Of Russia Reset

... by the United States and its European allies. As time went on, though, the reset drew increasing criticism. In 2011, former chess champion and human-rights activist Garry Kasparov criticized both Obama and Putin, telling the Daily Beast that the reset was "a disaster." And Douglas J. Feith, who served as undersecretary of defense for policy during the George W. Bush administration, co-wrote an article in Foreign Policy that called the reset "a head-shaking disappointment.". The reset peters out. The era of cooperation began to come apart in 2012 - not coincidentally, the year Putin returned to the presidency after Medvedev’s term. Large street protests in his 2012 presidential campaign "had unnerved Mr. Putin, and he accused Mrs. Clinton of instigating them," the New York Times reported. "White House officials had hoped the hostile talk was just for domestic campaign purposes, but even after Mr. Putin formally won re-election, he kept it up.". Relations worsened further in 2013, when Russia took in Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who had leaked a large trove ...

The Whistleblower Devin Nunes Must Hear From

... other members of the House Intelligence Committee about this apparent cover-up and bring Montgomery to Congress to testify and produce proof of this "Orwellian Big Brother" violation of the constitutional rights of not just President Trump, but of all of us. The letter, which I penned and had delivered, is here on the Freedom Watch website. A video I put out explaining the reasons behind my actions on behalf of the American people is viewable at the end of this column. Friday, March 24, 2017, is the deadline I gave Chairman Nunes and his committee members, both Republican and Democrat, to respond to my request to have Montgomery interviewed and then investigate in an appropriate, secure way what he had provided to Director Comey. Chairman Nunes has even asked whistleblowers like Montgomery to come forward. Indeed, all of Montgomery's classified information is currently in the possession of the FBI, as well as a video of his three-hour interview before Special Agents Giardina and Barnett, where he was put under oath in a secure soundproof room at FBI Field Headquarters in Washington, D. C. Notably, regrettably and predictably it seems, ...

Devin Nunes’ Hot Seat. John Wallace Tributes. ‘i Wuv You, Robot.’ Your Morning Scoop

... to add the Scoop to your email inbox. It’s easy. Say what. “Hard-nosed football is what Fresno State used to be known for, and we really needed to get back to that.”– junior tight end Kyle Hendrickson, after the first day of spring practice. Coach Jeff Tedford would likely agree. What You Need to Know. • To understand how much John Wallace meant to our Valley – how he so much more than a TV news guy – read the tales and tributes here and here. • Rep. Devin Nunes’ political life lately is one crazy kabuki. While his Tulare-area neighbors still hail him as a hero , Democrats in the House and Senate say he shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the Russia-influence investigation. • Reporter Rory Appleton tells us about the first day of a high-profile civil trial in which a Fresno Unified teacher says the district failed to protect her against sexually explicit allegations by a Hmong radio host. • Barack Obama’s measures aimed at combatting global warming are in President Trump’s sights this morning. Here’s ...

Did Nunes’ Disclosure Of Secret Intelligence Data Violate The Law

... identify the targets of the surveillance and only spoke in general terms about the content,” Langer said. “In response to a specific question, he said it appeared to be FISA information, but he repeatedly said he won’t know until he receives all the information he’s requested about these collections.”. Rep. Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who is the ranking member of the committee, said he too couldn’t say definitively if Nunes had violated the law – “I haven’t seen the materials.” But he acknowledged that the concern was there. It was an odd ending to what was a big week for the California Republican. On Monday, Nunes had chaired a rare open hearing of his usually secretive intelligence committee where the topic was Russian meddling in the U. S. presidential election. In that hearing, FBI director James Comey ...

Did Devin Nunes Meet With Michael Flynn And Turkey's Foreign Minister

... The meeting marks a first direct reachout between the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan administration and the incoming Donald Trump administration, other than a phone call between two leaders last November. House Intelligence Committee Congressman Devin Nunes, a Republican heavyweight, also attended the breakfast. The Daily Sabah seemingly contradicted Langer by reporting that Cavusoglu “was the only foreign leader at the breakfast and the topics on the U. S.-Turkish agenda were discussed by the attendees,” but the newspaper is often described as publishing “pro-government” content and propaganda. The notion that Nunes “met” with the Turkish foreign minister could be controversial if true, because Flynn was forced to register with the Department of Justice as a foreign agent following revelations that his firm, Flynn Intel Group, was paid $530,000 for lobbying work that may have aided the Turkish government. Former CIA chief James Woolsey told the Wall Street Journal that at a separate meeting he attended in the summer of 2016 between Flynn and Cavusoglu, the topic of ...

Harsh Portrayal Of Their Hometown Congressman Devin Nunes Riles His Neighbors And Friends

... only himself but also his Central Valley district.”. But even those in Tulare who didn’t vote for Nunes shy away from that kind of rhetoric. Ramon Cervantes, 71, who lives in the neighborhood next to Nunes’ home, said he’s not a Republican, but “I would not insult him. I’ve been in the military. Even if I don’t like my first sergeant, I respect the rank. “My advice to him is to look at the bigger picture,” he said. “He gets information, then he goes to Trump when he’s supposed to share it with the Democrats. All eyes are on this and you do something like that?”. Jim Dokken, 70, of Tulare, a retired farm equipment sales general manager, said Nunes made a mistake. “I like the guy,” Dokken said. “In this instance, I think he made an error in judgment.”. Nunes apologized to fellow committee members for not telling them first about how ...

Devin Nunes's Curiously Selective Memory

... and the Trump campaign. Carter Page was a foreign-policy adviser to Trump when he was a candidate. My colleague Julia Ioffe probed the weird nature of his position in the campaign. The New York Times reported that he traveled to Moscow to speak at a Russian university prior to the election. And he met with the Russian ambassador during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, despite previously claiming on TV that he had no such meetings. Neither act is a smoking gun proving that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. But anyone investigating the possibility would be incompetent or dishonest if they insisted that they’d never even heard of the man. (The Senate intelligence committee has heard of him.). It seems even less likely that Nunes has never heard of Roger Stone, given his long career in Republican politics and frequent media appearances over the years. Stone is germane to this story because he worked on ...

Devin Nunes Sees The Headlights

... with its words and actions. Charlotte Observer: Millions of working-class Americans enthusiastically supported candidate Donald Trump because they were convinced he would help them better share access to the country’s wealth. President Trump has spent the past several days betraying those voters in a desperate attempt to score a political victory. Lexington Herald Leader: At a time when political and religious divisions are unusually inflamed, why make battlegrounds of schools? And who wants to be the principal who must defend the Campus Crusade for White Supremacy’s membership policy. David French, National Review: We have more than 200 years of history demonstrating that our constitutional structure can withstand a great deal of “avarice,” “ambition,” and “revenge.” But even the strongest human systems have their limits, and those limits are tested not by tax rates but by human behavior and human integrity. We can fail that test only for so long. Syndicates’ take. Eugene Robinson: Other presidents had comprehensible though ...

Now We Know Why Trump Panicked About Russia Probe

... is successful is we work in a bipartisan fashion. Senator Burr and Senator Warner on our intelligence committee are in the Senate, work closely together. They may have differences, but- you've got to have a bipartisan approach to an issue such as this if you want to be credible. There is more engagement- with- with false information. There is- a lot more associated with Russian attempts to affect America. Our election, but there's also a lot of other Russian activities going on. For example, right now, they're attempting to affect the outcome in France. Stopping just short of demanding Nunes recuse himself, Mc Cain's open criticism of Nunes nevertheless opens the door for more pressure on Nunes from the GOP. Republicans may be reading polling showing Trump's approval dropping and support for an independent commission rising. (In the latest Quinnipiac poll voters favor an independent inquest by a 66 to 29 percent margin.) Frankly, if Republicans in Congress want to demonstrate independence from a failing president and avoid constant questions ...

The Dual Roles Of Devin Nunes Raise Questions About House Investigation

... was seen even by some GOP members as a tactical mistake. Nunes apologized the next day. “Loyalty can sometimes make you, you know, go a step too far,” Cole said. “I’m pretty heartened that [Nunes] recognized that within 24 hours and moved to change it.”. Before the Russia issue, Nunes was mainly known in intelligence circles for his role as an architect of the GOP’s politically charged investigation of terrorist attacks on U. S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, and his preoccupation with the fate of an obscure U. S. military outpost in the Atlantic Ocean. That facility, Lajes Field, is a remote U. S. Air Force base in the Azores, wind-swept islands 1,000 miles from Europe. Nunes, a descendant of immigrants from the Azores, waged a lengthy campaign to compel the Pentagon to relocate a major intelligence base in the United Kingdom to the Azores. Pentagon and U. S. intelligence officials objected, citing prohibitive costs and concerns that civilian employees of the Defense Intelligence Agency — which supplied a large share of the workforce for the U. K. base — would refuse to move there. Nunes responded by inserting a provision in a spending bill ...