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Devin Nunes: Intelligence Agencies Should Be Shut Down, At Least Temporarily
2020-10-05
[The Federalist] House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Sunday suggested that American intelligence agencies should be shut down until they comply with handing over information collected on Donald Trump and his campaign back in 2016.

"Every Republican senator and member of Congress should be saying, 'This is over. We want every damn bit of evidence that every intelligence agency has or it’s maybe time to shut those agencies down,'" Nunes told Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures."

"Because at the end of the day our liberties are more important than anything else we have in this country and they have been stampeded over by these dirty cops and the Democratic Party and the media who fails to report on it."

According to Nunes, the newly declassified documents from Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe show former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton set up the 2016 Russia investigation into the Trump campaign. Clinton created the Russia collusion hoax to shift public scrutiny away from her email scandal. Nunes said those documents are "smoking guns" that the American people deserve to see.

"You have corrupt officials and I think that’s the point here. Are you going to go back to elect somebody like Biden who just the other night, Maria, had the audacity to go after President Trump for once again, for what? I think he said that [Trump] had Putin wrapped around his finger. And then [Biden] didn’t answer the question on why did his son get $3.5 million from a Russian oligarch with ties to Putin?" Nunes asked.
Posted by:Besoeker

#20  About time.
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-10-05 19:28  

#19  ^ Nicely done :-)
Posted by: Frank G   2020-10-05 19:09  

#18  [The Federalist] House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Sunday suggested that American intelligence agencies should be shut down until they comply with handing over information collected on Donald Trump and his campaign back in 2016.

Let's start with a two week shutdown to flatten the curve and go from there.
Posted by: charger   2020-10-05 19:05  

#17  The Rose Garden event wasn't the smartest idea, and I guess few Democrats attended. So that's that.
Posted by: European Conservative   2020-10-05 14:58  

#16  Given where it happened, they going to figure this out - if we don't hear anything, it means it was the boss man himself.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-10-05 14:54  

#15  Maybe it doesn't matter but I think what we're saying is that maybe it does.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-10-05 14:52  

#14  Inquiring minds would like to know.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-10-05 14:51  

#13  ^Does it matter?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-10-05 14:26  

#12  ^ Yeah, and who, pray tell, was that one person?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-10-05 14:21  

#11  #9 That's how it spreads - one person brings into a group that don't practice masking & distancing.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-10-05 13:45  

#10  that the intel agencies attempted a coup, or that they were too incompetent to pull it off.

It didn't start off as a coup. It began as an intelligence collection operation for Hillary Clinton. After Trump won and the operation blown by the NSA's Adm Rogers, it morphed into a hasty coverup of the intel op by targeting Gen. Flynn. It wasn't until after Trump fired Strzok, Comey and gang that the Meuller special council/Pelosi/Schiff impeachment operation got going and by then it was pretty much in the open.

I have no doubt if the the Democrats and Senior Executives had planned a coup or assassination from the beginning, they would have succeeded.
Posted by: Lemuel Flereck8330   2020-10-05 13:42  

#9  On his own? Curious statement, given how many R's have simultaneously come down with it
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2020-10-05 13:29  

#8  ^Lets not go paranoid. Trump got Covid all on his own.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-10-05 12:51  

#7  #2 ^So far, they haven't tried to assassinate Trump - not seriously.


I take it you haven't followed the news in the last week.
Posted by: charger   2020-10-05 10:58  

#6  ...it appears they've already failed at one.

Nice that the Pentagon fought so hard and won keeping the DIA out of the grasp of the usual suspects.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-10-05 10:25  

#5  I can decide which worries me more: that the intel agencies attempted a coup, or that they were too incompetent to pull it off.
Posted by: Matt   2020-10-05 10:20  

#4  "Central Intelligence Agency... Now, there's a contradiction in terms.".

(I don't have to mention the source, do I?)
Posted by: European Conservative   2020-10-05 08:44  

#3  ^ speaking of which, what's the over/under on your guy?
Posted by: Mercutio   2020-10-05 08:07  

#2  ^So far, they haven't tried to assassinate Trump - not seriously.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-10-05 05:36  

#1  Start from the top. Fire the Director CIA, and appoint another, then another, then another, until someone produces the desired documents.

If they cannot be controlled, then surely they are in control.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-10-05 05:32  

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