House Republicans quietly investigate perceived corruption at DOJ, FBI - Polidicks

[B][U]House Republicans quietly investigate perceived corruption at DOJ, FBI[/U][/B] [I]The group was born out of frustration over the Justice Department's refusal to explain how it used a disputed dossier.[/I] [url]https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/20/house-republicans-quietly-investigate-doj-fbi-310121[/url] [QUOTE] A group of House Republicans has gathered secretly for weeks in the Capitol in an effort to build a case that senior leaders of the Justice Department and FBI improperly — and perhaps criminally — mishandled the contents of a dossier that describes alleged ties between President Donald Trump and Russia, according to four people familiar with their plans. A subset of the Republican members of the House intelligence committee, led by Chairman Devin Nunes of California, has been quietly working parallel to the committee's high-profile inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. They haven't informed Democrats about their plans, but they have consulted with the House's general counsel. The people familiar with Nunes' plans said the goal is to highlight what some committee Republicans see as corruption and conspiracy in the upper ranks of federal law enforcement. The group hopes to release a report early next year detailing their concerns about the DOJ and FBI, and they might seek congressional votes to declassify elements of their evidence. [B]That final product could ultimately be used by Republicans to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether any Trump aides colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign — [U]or possibly even to justify his dismissal[/U],[/B] as some rank-and-file Republicans and Trump allies have demanded. (The president has said he is not currently considering firing Mueller.) [/QUOTE]

[quote]A subset of the Republican members of the House intelligence committee, [B]led by Chairman Devin Nunes of California[/B], has been quietly working parallel to the committee's high-profile inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.[/quote] And that's all you need to know about the legitimacy of said investigation.

Fuck off.

Also of note is that Sen. Warner spoke out about maintaining the investigation earlier today: [video=youtube;cM_dr4942X8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM_dr4942X8[/video]

watch as they manage to find absolutely nothing and just end up wasting time and money

Goddamnit nunes should not be anywhere near a fucking investigation even remotely crossing the russia investigation

Trump is going to make his move against this investigation soon, and the GOP is going to back his play. If that happens, our options for proceeding as a nation are few without some extraordinary measures. The head of the executive and legislative branches will have toppled the authority of the courts and executive agencies. This cannot be allowed to happen under any circumstances. The entire future of our country lies in the national response to this coup.

Nunes was on the Trump transition team. Multiple key members of the Trump transition team knew, before inauguration, that Flynn was meeting with Kislyak, a federal crime. The collective transition team has, whenever anyone's asked, under oath or not, utterly denied all knowledge of collusion or Russian cooperation. Nunes leaked the Comey letter which soured public opinion on Hillary Clinton days before the election. Nunes is leading the House Republican attack against Mueller by attempting to undermine him through painting the FBI as corrupt and biased against Trump. He has [I]no[/I] business conducting an investigation because he is a Trump transition team member and therefore [I]at minimum[/I] a person of interest and a potential witness to federal crimes by Trump and Trump surrogates if not personally implicated in those crimes. And if Mueller indicts him, no matter what the charges are, he'll claim it's a deep state coup conspiracy and we will be at DEFCON Alex Jonestard in the House if not already there/past it. [QUOTE=Big Dumb American;52993463]Trump is going to make his move against this investigation soon, and the GOP is going to back his play. If that happens, our options for proceeding as a nation are few without some extraordinary measures. The head of the executive and legislative branches will have toppled the authority of the courts and executive agencies. This cannot be allowed to happen under any circumstances. The entire future of our country lies in the national response to this coup.[/QUOTE] Someone posted on here, recently, can't remember who (sorry!), that the intelligence community's response to the Comey firing was to leak scandals constantly until Mueller was appointed. If Trump attempts a saturday night massacre, I want OPSEC to go out the window and I want the floodgates to be opened. The American people deserve to see real transcripts of what the intelligence community intercepted from Kislyak talking to his Kremlin handlers, or some of the juicy Trump transition team emails Mueller harvested from the GSA that, up until a few days ago, Trump and co thought were safe in a literal vault Mueller's team couldn't get to. Let the sunlight of transparency be blinding.

Republicans don't actually give a fuck about corruption

Christ almighty this is bad, bad news. Things are going to reach a boiling point in the next year.

Can't wait for the next civil war to come just as our economy crashes from the new tax code. The next few years sure look great in America!

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;52993463]Trump is going to make his move against this investigation soon, and the GOP is going to back his play. If that happens, our options for proceeding as a nation are few without some extraordinary measures. The head of the executive and legislative branches will have toppled the authority of the courts and executive agencies. This cannot be allowed to happen under any circumstances. The entire future of our country lies in the national response to this coup.[/QUOTE] Can we refer back to the time when Donald Trump used the constitution against Hilary? I'm not going to specify.

[QUOTE=Hilton;52993701]Can't wait for the next civil war to come just as our economy crashes from the new tax code. The next few years sure look great in America![/QUOTE] Don't worry; we'll probably be too pre-occupied with Nuclear World War III with North Korea to bother with a civil war!

[media]https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/943650064345559040[/media] When the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee doesn't know this is happening, it's a conspiracy intended to obstruct justice, not an "investigation". Nunes has absofuckinglutely no business getting involved, he knows it, and that's [I]precisely[/I] why he's doing it. Can we all admit that America is off the rails and getting worse day by day, or are Trump voters going to insist that we still have to give President Trump a "chance" because 2017 hasn't been a massive fucking anomaly enough?

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;52994314][media]https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/943650064345559040[/media] When the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee doesn't know this is happening, it's a conspiracy intended to obstruct justice, not an "investigation". Nunes has absofuckinglutely no business getting involved, he knows it, and that's [I]precisely[/I] why he's doing it. Can we all admit that America is off the rails and getting worse day by day, or are Trump voters going to insist that we still have to give President Trump a "chance" because 2017 hasn't been a massive fucking anomaly enough?[/QUOTE] They aren't giving him a chance, they are giving him a standing ovation. This is exactly what Trump promised when he said he would "drain the swamp". A scary amount of Trump supporters firmly believe the Deep State conspiracy theories, and it's not helped by organizations like Fox News and Judicial Watch who are pushing the dial to 11 with accusations of a coup attempt on the part of the FBI and DOJ. [editline]21st December 2017[/editline] People who said that even Trump isn't stupid enough to outright fire Mueller are right, and this kind of explains what he said the other day about it looking bad but not considering firing him. He is just going to sit back and let his party do the dirty work. The objective is make Mueller like biased and unprofessional as a way to build a case to dismiss him.

[QUOTE=LZTYBRN;52993433]watch as they manage to find absolutely nothing and just end up wasting time and money[/QUOTE] Didn't stop them from investigating Hillary's involvement in Benghazi [I]five[/I]* times. *Note that there were actually [I]seven[/I] probes into Hillary's involvement, I leave it as it is because even I thought 5 probes was ridiculous so I did a quick search to see how many probes there were, and was both surprised and yet not surprised to find that the number was actually [I]seven fucking times[/I].