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Nunes buried evidence on Russian meddling to protect Trump. I know because I’m on the committeeNunes buried evidence on Russian meddling to protect Trump. I know because I’m on the committee
By Rep. Eric Swalwell
Ryan and Schiff react to Nunes memo vote
Rep. Paul Ryan and Rep. Adam Schiff talked to reporters after Republican House members voted to release a memo containing classified information about the federal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign.
By AP
No one really expected President Donald Trump, who benefited from Russia’s 2016 election interference, to counter that hostile regime’s active measures: Russia wanted him to win, and when they hacked, he invited them to hack more.
But America should have been able to rely on a united Congress to ensure that our next elections aren’t just as vulnerable if not moreso. Instead, due to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes’ persistent and pernicious obstruction, America has been spectacularly let down.
Just last week, hours before the Republican-led House recessed for six weeks, Nunes broke out his shovel yet again to bury even deeper the evidence of Russian interference, once again demonstrating there’s no distance he won’t go to protect this president.
Nunes and committee Republicans had promised that the American people would see our interview transcripts after the investigation was completed. When they abruptly ended the investigation without calling dozens of relevant witnesses, they voted to conceal the transcripts.
Suddenly, last month, Nunes agreed to release them. Perhaps he was worried about the burgeoning campaign of his Democratic opponent — a local prosecutor named Andrew Janz, whose argument to the voters includes powerful evidence of Nunes’ efforts to poison the Russia investigation.
But predictably, at a hearing last week on releasing the transcripts, Nunes still wouldn’t allow real transparency.
Rep. Eric Swalwell of the 15th congressional district.
House of Representatives
Committee Democrats asked to immediately send the transcripts to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who hasn’t been allowed to see them under Nunes’ rules. There’s good reason to believe many witnesses committed perjury or offered information relevant to the special counsel’s work. But Nunes opposed it, and it was voted down.
Committee Democrats then moved to have the transcripts released to the public immediately — after a 10-day intelligence community review — to avoid any selective release or other political manipulation. Again, Nunes opposed this.
This is his modus operandi. Though incomplete due to Republican obstruction, our investigation did reveal worrisome contacts between the Russians and candidate Trump, his family, his businesses, and his campaign. Yet every time we sought to learn more, we were blocked.
We sought to test witnesses’ accounts by subpoenaing third-party records such as cell phone, bank and travel records. Republicans refused to allow it.
To arrange the infamous June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting, Donald Trump Jr. called his Russian contact, then called a blocked number, and then called his Russian contact back. We had evidence from other witnesses that Donald Trump used a blocked number.
Republicans refused to pursue whether it was the same number. The Republicans ran a “take them at their word” investigation when most of the Trump team clearly didn’t deserve that benefit of the doubt. So at last week’s hearing, I moved to subpoena many of the records that could fill a lot of the gaps. Nunes nixed it.
Reviewing his plans, we saw a glaring omission: the transcript of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher’s interview. I took part in that lengthy interview and I was disturbed by his contacts with Russia before and during the 2015-16 campaign. So Democrats at our hearing moved to release Rohrabacher’s transcript, plus several others; Nunes killed our effort. He’s burying that transcript to protect his friend — also in a tight re-election battle against Harley Rouda in Orange County — just as he has protected President Trump.
The Nunes fix was in from the very start. Soon after 2016’s election, as we began to see the breadth of Russia’s interference, I had approached him with an idea: “Let’s have an independent commission look at what the Russians did,” just as we had after the Sept. 11 attacks.
“We can handle this on the committee,” Nunes insisted. I was doubtful, but I never expected that by “handle,” he meant “bury.”
We’re not helpless. A new Congress consisting of people who put fair elections and the rule of law above party can restore our democracy.
That’s why I support Andrew Janz: not because he’s “anyone but Nunes,” but because as a prosecutor, he knows that upholding the law is most important.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m not giving up on Republicans. Many have told me privately that they knew Nunes and Trump were dead wrong, but they wouldn’t speak out for fear of incurring the president’s Twitter wrath. “When he tweets, he wins,” one told me.
In November, let’s show the president, and congressional enablers like Nunes, that we will not be bullied. And when Democrats hold the majority, it will be our responsibility to unite with any Republicans willing to defend this great nation.
Rep. Devin Nunes criticized on prominent billboards along 99
Devin Nunes is questioned about a trade war with China on three prominent billboards along Highway 99 near Fowler and Selma, California.
There's nothing more I want out of the midterms than to see Nunes lose. 
Brehs, in war, there are casualties on all sides.
But you know your mission.
But you know your mission.
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I mean, you all see what's happening right? When you're outraged over everything, you're outraged over nothing. Trump's approach to all this is working. All your tweets and memes are doing exactly nothing. All these hysteric pundits on cable news are doing exactly nothing.You're calling yourselves soldiers? Saying you're fighting a war? You're making anonymous posts on an internet forum. Snap out of it. There's no amount of daps or likes or internet cool points that will make any sort of difference. There's nothing an aspiring authoritarian government could want more than a bunch of people sitting at home, alone, staring a screen, doing nothing, but convinced they're on some heroic crusade against injustice.
And if you're holding your breath waiting for Mueller to put an end to all this you should probably recalibrate your expectations.
And if you're holding your breath waiting for Mueller to put an end to all this you should probably recalibrate your expectations.
Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
Trump might take her out
New Jeruzalem Journalist
Superstar
Shyt this blatant has to mean he knew he was gonna get fired or reprimanded. You can't make yourself a part of the story you're covering, telegraph your bias, and expect nobody will notice.
Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
I'm at the point where I'm realizing this shyt is stressful and not worth it. I've been tuning out the news last couple of weeks and it's been refreshing. Doesn't mean I'm giving up but I just don't think spending hours of my day worried about all this is helping. I will still stay informed but I am not expecting a miracle anymore.
Get to to know, and talk to republicans in the real world. Nothing else makes a difference.
Encouraging non voters to vote is a better strategy.
Same with winning over independents.
New Jeruzalem Journalist
Superstar
You just went on a rant (for lack of a better word, no disrespect intended) about how expressing outrage or posting on the internet is the equivalence of indifference, yet then turn around and say that talking to REPUBLICANS of all people is the only viable solution for change??
I'd be better off spending my time talking to a garbage dumpster trying to convince it to stop smelling like garbage. At the very least I'd know the garbage dumpster isn't actively supporting my demise as a human being.
I have this same talk with my brother from time to time. He works for the city he lives in and is also a real estate agent. Meets people from all walks of life, but deals with alot of Repubs and Trump supporters on a daily basis. And despite how frustrating he admits it gets, he still does his best to engage them in logic, decency, and to show them the errors in their philosophy as Americans.
And I tell him couldn't be me. If you're supporting this shyt in 2018, IMO you're a lost cause. At best I feel you're taming your true nature out of sense of social constraint. What you're proposing is a sunk cost fallacy.
This internet shyt works. Period.
I’m all for KTSE outside of the internet in the “real world” as that should be the default mode anyways but acting like we’re wasting time on the internet is just false. There’s a reason Russia spent millions of dollars on hackers and bots, because this shyt works.
I’m all for KTSE outside of the internet in the “real world” as that should be the default mode anyways but acting like we’re wasting time on the internet is just false. There’s a reason Russia spent millions of dollars on hackers and bots, because this shyt works.