With Trump wailing away at the “politicized” FBI, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that in his hottest work of fiction to date, David Nunes’ “Memo Written by a Trump Campaign Transition Team Official and Formerly Recused Congressman,” the guy that’s totally not biased, evidently alleges that the trifecta of Comey, McCabe and Rosenstein all engaged in wrongful surveillance, and-or surveillance abuse of Donald Trump.
I’m not sure how the Daily Beast knows what's in the memo but apparently it’s not a huge secret within the right circles. It seems that Nunes’ thesis isn’t presented with a ton of clarity:
A groundswell is building to release the memo—written by Devin Nunes, the California Republican and key Trump ally who chairs the House intelligence committee—which former FBI agents fear will damage public trust in the bureau. While Democrats say the memo deliberately misrepresents the procedures for obtaining a foreign-intelligence surveillance warrant, The Daily Beast has learned that Hill Republicans are gearing up to use an obscure parliamentary rule to release it.
An obscure parliamentary rule to release it?
You mean like running over to the White House and finding it blowing in the wind? Similar to what caused him to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, for the rest of that particular week, anyway?
How is this guy have a scintilla of integrity at this point? I
A Justice Department official sent a letter to his own party noting that releasing the memo would be “extraordinarily reckless.” Apparently, we need note that Trump’s buddy Sessions is the boss of whoever issued this letter.
In a letter sent to Nunes on Jan. 24, Stephen Boyd, the department’s top congressional liaison, wrote that “it would be extraordinarily reckless for the Committee to disclose such information publicly without giving the Department and the FBI the opportunity to review the memorandum and to advise the HPSCI [the House intelligence committee] of the risk of harm to national security and to ongoing investigations that could come from public release.”
But, here’s the best part, or the part that makes one want to pound one’s head into a brick wall. The Trump Justice Department, THE TRUMP JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, can’t find any sort of wrongdoing on the part of the Obama-era FBI in obtaining the warrant.
That letter also said the department is “unaware of any wrongdoing” related to the FISA process—indicating the department disagrees with the scores of congressional Republicans who say Nunes’ memo provides proof of wrongdoing.
Did I mention that this is the Trump administration Justice Department. And, since it is the Trump Justice Department, don’t you think they have searched every nook and cranny for wrongdoing in that warrant process?
In the Fox Era, Lewis Carroll-inspired investigation of the investigation, it shouldn’t surprise us that Comey, Rosenstein and McCabe are named in said memo. Apparently the Republicans believe if they muddy up the leaders at the time, the evidence gets muddied by association.
Did i ask how Nunes has any credibility at all?
Something that never gets noted, if a campaign is conspiring with a foreign power to win an election, the nation’s health depends upon the FBI watching that campaign, closely. The best way to stop surveillance of a campaign is to not run a Russian agent for president.