Rep. Nunes: ‘Who’s Gonna Get Busted? Who’s Gonna Go to Jail?’
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A government watchdog report strongly criticizing the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation is not the last word, the top Republican on the House of Representatives intelligence panel said Thursday.
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” that his committee would continue its pursuit of documents related to the probe and the counterintelligence investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“Ultimately, this is all gonna spill out,” he said. “And then people are going to ask, ‘Well, what are you going to do? Who’s gonna get busted? Who’s gonna go to jail?”
Nunes (pictured above left) expressed outrage that the report released Thursday by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (IG) contained a damning text message that had not been turned over to his committee. A previously released text message from FBI lawyer Lisa Page to lead investigator Peter Strzok expressed dismay at the possibility that Trump might win the election.
Strzok’s answer, which had not been released until Thursday’s IG report: “No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.”
Those were “text messages that we had been asking for since late last year,” Nunes said. “How could that possibly have been redacted?”
Nunes said that and other text messages DOJ has withheld from Congress are relevant to the committee's investigation into Russia collusion and possible abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process.
"Why wasn't that given to Congress?" he demanded. "Why did I find out about that today at noon? This is a classic case of obstruction. But then the question is, who's gonna go investigate these guys?"
For the first time, Nunes shared an anecdote about a whistleblower in the FBI who alerted the intelligence committee before that election to a laptop computer relevant to the email probe in the agency's possession.
"We had whistleblowers that came to us in late September of 2016 who talked to us about this laptop sitting up in New York that had additional emails on it," he said. "The House intelligence committee. We had that. But we couldn't do anything with it."
The IG report noted that FBI agents moved slowly to investigate potentially classified emails from Clinton, when she was secretary of state, on the computer of former Rep. Anthony Weiner — who was married to Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
The report stated the IG's office had no explanation for why FBI agents handled the Weiner laptop in that way and noted that agents decided to prioritize the counterintelligence investigation over the classified email probe.
Eventually, then-FBI Director James Comey reopened the email probe and soon closed it again, after agents concluded that the computer did not contain incriminating evidence.
Despite learning of the Clinton emails in FBI possession, Nunes said, he could not talk about it publicly because the information was classified.
"This is the game that Comey and company have been playing, is they hide behind this top-secret classification," he said.
Despite soothing words from current FBI Director Christopher Wray, Nunes said, he fears there have been no fundamental reforms in the upper echelons of the FBI bureaucracy.
"The same people that are in charge today still believe they can run the clock out, and they're trying to run the clock out for the rest of this Congress so we can't finish our investigations," he said.
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Head of House intelligence panel livid that IG report on Hillary probe had text messages not released to congressional investigators
"Who is going get busted? Who is going to jail?"
Absolutely it should be Nunes for starters. Nunes and a small band of conspirators have been obstructing the congressional investigations since their implementation.
‘Who’s Gonna Get Busted? Who’s Gonna Go To Jail?’
Manafort.
To easy. Manafort is already in jail awaiting trial.
He can't talk or flip. The safety of his family hang in the balance. The Russians know everything and Manafort knows too much.
Does Nunes ever actually do anything other than running around looking for things that are not there? He is all over the map on what he is supposedly investigating. Just looking, and looking.
Well that did not give me what I wanted, give me more, that didn't help, give me more.
I would be pissed if he was from my state. He never does anything besides fishing for anything he can for the WH.
Looks like all the Democrats couldn't care less about selling out civil liberties and protecting our country from rogue partisans like Strzok. I guess all it takes is Trump to make the left do away with the whole concept of a clean, non corrupt government.
It's absolutely hilarious that you think Trump represents a clean, non corrupt government.
"There is a sucker born every minute"
A famous saying about gullibility is usually attributed to the well-known showman P. T. Barnum
Soooo, one member of the FBI corrupted the whole of the 33,000 members of said agency, OOOOO Kaaayyyyy. You may have missed this in hearing today but, one Congressman asked if Strzok had been reported to Mueller and, the answer was yes he was and, within a week of that reporting he was removed from the investigation, that was in July of 2017, so, Strzok hasn't been a part of the Mueller investigation since July of 2017, what that means is Strzok isn't even able to move a file from the investigation from one desk to another, he has absolutely nothing to do with the investigation now and, hasn't had since July of 2017. So, get over it! I have.
I must digress. "One member of the FBI corrupted the whole of the 33,000 members of said agency...…"?
Uh, not really. The 'one member' you are apparently referring to spoke his mind and thus far is a whole lot more accurate about everything than the 'target' his opinion was aimed at.
The right wing deserves no cover. The right wing needs to be audited for foreign money and possible unethical or illegal actions with foreign powers. This includes 'some' media personalities.
Besides, if Trump, Nunes, McConnell and the rest of that bunch are innocent of everything they have nothing to fear, right?
Hey, I agree, if you reread what I posted then you will see what I said in the sentence you put up was actually a question, "One FBI agent corrupted 33,000 agents?" Notice the question mark, I wasn't saying that one agent corrupted the entire FBI I was asking the other person if they thought one person could corrupt the entire FBI.
I know. Just wanted to see if you were paying attention.
snorkel
So being shuffled around and kicked off an investigation is punishment enough for an agent who promised to use his authority to meddle in a presidential election? If this had involved anybody other than Trump the left would be screaming for blood over that comment.
Where is the talk about one out of thousands when it comes to cops on the street or border agents? The left wants to paint with broad brushes on those issues and micromanage those groups, don't they?
Where did he say, "I promise I will do everything in my power to swing the investigation to show Trump is guilty."? No where, nice try though.
Well, since I'm not a member of the "left" I wouldn't know about that, knowing that he is off the investigation is enough for me.
I've always held that policy but, I'm a rare bird, I have friends who are LEO's so, I know how it works there.
As I said, I wouldn't know, I'm not on the "left".
"Where did he say, "I promise I will do everything in my power to swing the investigation to show Trump is guilty."? No where, nice try though."
"Don't worry. We will stop Trump."
Thats good enough for me, especially considering how much the Access Hollywood type has had so much read into ad nausiem- emphasis on "nausiem".
I read today that from the hearings it seems like an ongoing investigation is happening into the leaks and they were related to Giuliani. Seems he knew more than he should have.
Sounds to me like most of the crooked ones lean to the right of the political isle.
The damning info about the FBI didn't come from leaks- it came from the IG report. And there is no bigger leaker than Adam Schiff.
The most damage the report held was to republican claims.
Who knows what may come out. Some people might not be very happy.
The key word in the whole thing is "possible". But it's nice to see people who don't support Trump actually caring about leaks for a change.
Actually I don't care about leaks at all. The government is to secretive as it is. For a supposed open society, our government has way to many closed door meetings.
Sunshine is the best disinfectant. But leaks can be very damaging for anyone. They can't be verified and are usually only used to attack/smear. Complete transparency would put an end to the damage created by leaks.
before it is all over the word "treason" will be bandied about.. as to who is going to jail? depends on who flips on who and when. but you can bet everyone at the top of the last admin is getting a lawyer as we speak. even the investigation into hillary before the election will have to be re-investigated. - this is when it all starts to blow up in their faces. we are living in historic times