{"id":20641,"date":"2017-03-27T18:58:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T18:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20641"},"modified":"2017-03-27T18:58:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T18:58:12","slug":"what-gives-with-chairman-nunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20641","title":{"rendered":"What gives with Chairman Nunes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>What is it with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes?<\/p>\n<p>He is up to his armpits with information pertaining to Donald Trump&#8217;s possible involvement with Russian hackers and their effort to swing the election in his favor. Nunes also is privy to the circumstances surrounding the president&#8217;s phony allegation that Barack Obama &#8220;ordered&#8221; a wiretap of Trump&#8217;s offices in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>He then meets with\u00a0the president\u00a0&#8212; <em>in the White House!<\/em> &#8212; to tell him about &#8220;incidental&#8221; intelligence that might have been gathered.<\/p>\n<p>Now we hear that he had a meeting prior to going to the White House with someone, supposedly the source of that &#8220;incidental&#8221; intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>According to NBC News: &#8220;&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/nunes-backs-down-assertion-trump-was-monitored-n738151\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Chairman Nunes met with his source<\/span><\/u><\/a> at the White House grounds in order to have proximity to a secure location where he could view the information provided by the source,&#8217; said his spokesman, Jack Langer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/nunes-met-source-trump-monitoring-claim-white-house-n738906\">What did they discuss?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmmm. I presume you&#8217;ll recall the time former President Clinton boarded an airplane in Phoenix to talk to then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, whose department was investigating Hillary Clinton&#8217;s e-mail matter. Republicans raised all kinds of hell about the <em>appearance<\/em> of impropriety. They just didn&#8217;t know for certain what the ex-president and the AG discussed and they all but accused President Clinton of trying to get Lynch to back off her department&#8217;s probe.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch and Clinton said they talked about all manner of things &#8212; except that issue.<\/p>\n<p>So, I believe it&#8217;s reasonable to ask: What did Chairman Nunes discuss at the White House &#8212; and <em>with whom did he discuss it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am now believing that Devin Nunes should not be chairing the House committee that&#8217;s assigned to investigate these increasingly frightening matters involving the president of the United States.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes? He is up to his armpits with information pertaining to Donald Trump&#8217;s possible involvement with Russian hackers and their effort to swing the election in his favor. Nunes also is privy to the circumstances surrounding the president&#8217;s phony allegation that Barack Obama &#8220;ordered&#8221; a wiretap &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20641\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What gives with Chairman Nunes?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[540,7020,1424,2139,2180],"class_list":["post-20641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-devin-nunes","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-house-intelligence-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20642,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20641\/revisions\/20642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}