US Politics Mega-thread - Page 1207

On March 14 2019 01:47 farvacola wrote:
Manafort just got hit with 16 new NY indictments, so the odds are still good that he gets what he deserves.

On March 14 2019 03:14 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
It's actually pretty damn weird that the FAA hasn't grounded the Boeing 737 max 8. Normally the FAA are among the most safety conscious of all aviation authorities, but in this case they are going against the precaution of every other aviation authority. Shouldn't they completely independent from politics anyways?

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., gave the first hint Tuesday evening about when he plans to make criminal referrals as part of an investigation into alleged political bias in the FBI and Justice Department.

During a Fox News interview, host Laura Ingraham asked Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, to let her viewers know when they can expect the criminal referrals to happen.

"I would guess sometime in the next two, three, four weeks," he replied. Nunes also said he'd like to see what is in special counsel Robert Mueller's report for his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

The timing of that inquiry's completion is still an open question. Recent reports suggested the probe would soon wrap up, but three U.S. officials told Reuters Mueller’s team has funding until the end of September, indicating that the inquiry could last for several more months.

Nunes has teased the onset of criminal referrals to the Justice Department for two months now, but has not divulged any names.

In February he said the GOP minority in the House Intelligence Committee offered up the names of roughly a dozen people they want to subpoena as the Democrats revitalize the panel's Russia investigation, although he said it was doubtful the Democratic majority would cooperate. Instead, Nunes is looking to William Barr, who on Feb. 14 became attorney general, to make headway towards completing an effort begun last year by a joint GOP-led task force comprising the Judiciary Committee and the Oversight Committee. "Look, we need the new attorney general to get in there, and then we will be making criminal referrals on many people who lied to Congress and many other bad things," Nunes said. Key to this effort, which has been bolstered by intelligence panel Republicans, is investigators looking over roughly 15 transcripts of interviews conducted by the task force last year.

On Tuesday, Nunes was also prompted to react to the newly revealed private testimony by former FBI lawyer Lisa Page and to the Democrats seemingly turning away from their collusion theories about President Trump in favor of investigating Trump's finances

"I want to give your viewers and use some hope," Nunes said. "There are people here in Washington every day going brick by brick trying to bust down through this wall. Look, we've been doing this for two years. The House Intelligence Committee Republicans, everything we've done is now being proven to be true. Everything the Democrats have done and said in the reports and memos that have put out have proven to be false. You have them now changing their tactics from where going to go down the impeachment road to now something else. So we continue to work up at the House Intelligence Committee, we will be making several criminal referrals and we hope that the Justice Department will take these up."

Nunes also reminded Ingraham's viewers about how depositions by Trump dossier author Christopher Steele and David Kramer, a longtime associate of John McCain and former State Department official, in a lawsuit brought against BuzzFeed by a Russian Internet entrepreneur will be made public as soon as March 14.

On March 14 2019 05:10 Gorsameth wrote:
Nunes.
The guy from the Nunes Memo?
Sorry if I don't take anything he says seriously after that piece of "selective quoting".

On March 14 2019 03:39 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote:
Remember, Trump wanted his personal pilot to be the FAA head, that didn't work out, and since then there's nobody appointed to the position after Obama's appointee left more than a year ago. The top of FAA are all 'acting'

https://www.faa.gov/about/key_officials/

On March 14 2019 05:14 xDaunt wrote:

Like I said previously, Nunes has been proven correct by the information that has been released. Schiff, on the other hand, is looking like a fraud at best.

On March 14 2019 06:14 Plansix wrote:

Pretty sure this is the other way around. But the eye of the beholder and all that.

On March 14 2019 06:20 xDaunt wrote:

We don't even have to get into the details to see that Schiff is a fraud. Just look at the case globally. Schiff has been loudly beating the drum of "there is tons of evidence that Trump colluded with the Russians" for years, yet the entire collusion narrative has been rapidly falling apart over the past few months due to 1) a complete absence of charges brought concerning Trump/Russia collusion, and 2) testimony and other evidence being leaked showing that there never was any real evidence of Trump/Russia collusion. All of this should make Democrats wonder why Schiff has been gaslighting them all of this time.

On March 14 2019 06:25 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:


So if you ignore the fact that the Nunes Memo was absolute nonsense and ignore all the indictments and confessions and other evidences of collusion, then Nunes could still be perceived as trustworthy and there would be no reason to believe that collusion occurred? I mean, that's technically true, tautologically, sure.