Nunes is a CTer It's time for a thread about him

I keep asking myself, is this guy simply kissing up to Trump or does he believe in the deep state and plots against Trump? Turns out he believes in dozens of CTs and has been acting on those beliefs since he was in college.

A lot of his history is detailed in this NYT Magazine article: How Devin Nunes Turned the House Intelligence Committee Inside Out. I'll let people interested read about the earlier CTs he acted on. I think his involvement in Obama and Behghazi CTs will illustrate the problem.

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In late 2012, he said he heard from “informants” that Obama administration officials were ignoring evidence in a cache of documents collected from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, showing that Al Qaeda was much stronger than the administration publicly contended.

Informants is likely the right wing blogosphere or Fox News characters.

Nunes pursued this farce all the way to going directly to

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Tampa and paid a visit to Centcom headquarters himself, where he demanded to meet with the analysts reviewing the documents, in the hope of uncovering evidence of Al Qaeda’s strength — and an Obama administration cover-up. But after a meeting with the Army major general who headed Centcom’s intelligence wing, Nunes came back to Washington empty-handed.

Needless to say no coverup was uncovered.


On to the Benghazi coverup CT. I thought Darryl Issa and Trey Gowdy were the main actors in that CT. I never knew Nunes was not only in on it, he may have started it.

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Nunes was also trying to prove that the Obama administration had covered up key facts about the assault on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Not long after the September 2012 attack, which killed four Americans, including the American ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, the Intelligence Committee began investigating the episode to determine if there had been any intelligence failures. Before going into politics, Rogers, the committee’s chairman, had been an F.B.I. agent — he was confident he knew how to conduct an investigation. But Nunes apparently did not believe that Rogers was pushing hard enough, and he repeatedly gave Rogers what he thought were tantalizing leads, ones that might prove that the Obama administration could have prevented, or at least mitigated, the Benghazi attack and then tried to cover up its mistake.

Rogers headed the committee Nunes is now controlling.

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Nunes had heard that a drone operator at an American air base in Germany said a drone had been flying over the Benghazi compound during the raid and captured video of the incident. According to a source familiar with the investigation, Rogers sent a committee staff member, Michael Ellis, to Germany to find and interview the American drone operator — who, it turned out, wasn’t even in the drone unit that covered Libya and had been telling tales to his parents, which had somehow made their way to Nunes. Rogers was frustrated that he had spent so long investigating a lead that he believed was absurd on its face. Nunes was not chastened; instead he grew discouraged that Rogers wasn’t pursuing even more leads.

From drone fairytales to unreliable contractor testimony.

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... C.I.A. contractors who performed a rescue mission in Benghazi on the night of the raid. The contractors claimed that they were told to “stand down” that evening by the C.I.A. officer in charge at Benghazi. They found their way to Nunes in the fall of 2013, ...

Nunes went behind Rogers' back and met with the contractors, inviting Boehner to attend the meeting.

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In the end, Rogers and the committee staff did not put much stock in the men’s testimony, finding it muddled and inconsistent. The next November, when the Intelligence Committee released its Benghazi report, it concluded that there had been no “stand down” order.

Nunes protested and his having fed Boehner the contractors' story, Boehner was apparently convinced there was something to the nonexistent 'stand down' order.

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Boehner seemed to agree with him, having already created a special committee to investigate Benghazi — essentially kneecapping Rogers and the Intelligence Committee and paving the way for the further politicization of the panel.

Eventually Rogers left Congress and Boehner appointed Nunes to head the committee. :eye-poppi


I don't know about other people in this forum, but that explains an awful lot to me about how the Benghazi hearings kept going like the Energizer Bunny.


A detailed account follows of Nunes' midnight run to the White House concocting a fake story that Trump was spied on by Obama via American intelligence agencies. And the rest is in the Mueller and Trump-Russia threads.


This morning on Fox I caught part of a new CT Nunes was pushing. Something about Clinton and Fusion One meeting with and paying the Russian Lawyer from the Trump Tower meeting. I didn't hear exactly what he was talking about but Cavuto was insisting this proved it was Clinton colluding with the Russians, paying for Trump dirt. When I find out more about it, I'll post it in the thread

Right from the Karl Rove Playbook, whatever you get caught at, start accusing your opponents of doing the same thing.

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