I watched last night’s Ingraham Angle
and saw the Ingraham/Nunes interview about the House expanding Congressional
investigations into Obama Administration State Department officials’ possible
knowledge that the so-called Steele Dossier was a fake put together by the
Crooked Hillary campaign to disparage and sink the Trump campaign.
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Schiff and Dems ‘Have All This Blood on Their Hands,’
Nunes Says
Obama administration officials and liberal bureaucrats
'completely destroyed the FBI and DOJ' by weaponizing them on behalf of Hillary
Clinton
Updated 03 Jul 2018 at 7:48 AM
PoliZette
– Politics. Explained.
Democrats “have all this blood on their hands” because they
“completely destroyed the FBI and DOJ” by digging up dirt on President Donald
Trump in 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s favor, House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said
Monday on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”
“They’re the ones that have all this blood on their hands.
They’re the ones who completely destroyed the FBI and DOJ,” Nunes insisted.
“How did they do that? They did that by digging up dirt — the Clinton campaign
dug up dirt, put it into a dossier, fed it into the FBI. The FBI used our
counterintelligence capabilities against a political campaign. That’s what
happened here.”
Nunes was responding to accusations Rep. Adam Schiff
(D-Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, leveled
against him and other GOP House committee members during an interview on CNN’s
“Wolf” last week.
Schiff called Nunes, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Rep. Mark
Meadows (R-N.C.) and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) “the four horsemen of this
apocalypse” who “have been leading the charge basically to require the Justice
Department to give them materials that can be leaked or fed or misrepresented.”
Meadows is chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, which Jordan founded, while
Gowdy is chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
“And in the meantime, they do enormous damage to these
institutions. Ultimately they’ll be held accountable,” Schiff claimed.
Nunes dismissed Schiff, saying he and the other GOP
lawmakers are “not going to be threatened by the Democrats” and will proceed
with their investigative plans.
“The Democrats in the House and the Senate — they’ve
continued to want to obfuscate, they’ve continued to want to cover up,” Nunes
said. “If we listened to the Democrats, we would have never … found out that
the Democrats and Hillary Clinton paid [former British spy] Christopher Steele
to generate this dirt on President Trump.”
"So I tend to ignore everything that they say,"
Nunes added. "We continue to do our work day in and day out to get to the
truth. And gradually we are getting to the truth."
Nunes revealed earlier this year that the FBI used the
anti-Trump dossier alleging collusion between the presidential campaign and the
Russians to renew surveillance warrants again former Trump adviser Carter Page.
Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) funded the
dossier.
Information the congressional committees' investigations
have steadily uncovered includes direct evidence of profoundly anti-Trump and
pro-Clinton bias within the DOJ and FBI during the Russian collusion
investigation, and also in the immediately prior probe of Clinton's use of a private
email server to conduct official business as secretary of state.
Nunes noted that he referred 17 current and former DOJ and
FBI officials to Gowdy of the House oversight committee, and to Bob Goodlatte
(R-Va.), chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Nunes also revealed Monday that he referred 10 Obama-era
Department of State and White House officials to Gowdy and Goodlatte for
testimony about the dossier, surveillance abuse, and other matters.
Congressional investigators "still don't understand
how" and why the Trump-Russia investigation "was opened" in the
first place, Nunes said, noting that "many people in the Obama-era State
Department were involved in the opening of that investigation."
"We also know that many people in the State Department
were meeting with Christopher Steele ... so this is why this investigation is
taking a while," Nunes said. "A lot of people had their hands on the
Steele dossier, including many people in the media who knew about the Steele
dossier."
Nunes said these reasons are "partly why I am sending
these names over to the judiciary and oversight committees, because they
already have a task force — the task force has been convened."
"They should be able to do all of these hearings in the
public, full transparency, so that people can watch on live television,"
Nunes told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. "But the good thing is that I
believe that Chairmen Gowdy and Goodlatte, their task force will interview
these people, and they will interview them in public. It will be the first time
during this entire investigation that the American people get to see actual
questions get answered by these potential witnesses."
"That is my recommendation to the committee chairmen. I
believe they will follow that recommendation. And they may have other
names," Nunes added. "I believe as these hearings take place and
testimony is given to the Congress, I think it will be a much-needed sunlight
in this investigation. I think the American people will begin to see who is
telling the truth and who is not telling the truth."
Nunes also ripped mainstream media outlets for failing to
cover the Obama-era scandals and seeking to "get to the bottom of
it."
"What we're having to do here as the legislative branch
of government — we're having to do the work that the media won't do because
there are very few in the media who will actually cover this story to try to
get to the bottom of it," Nunes lamented. "That's part of what's
taking so long. Typically you would have a free and fair and transparent media
trying to get to the truth. But in this case we haven't had that."
Nunes said he hopes to ensure the American people "know
that this is just one more step in the process" of finding answers and
achieving transparency.
"I think we've been very transparent about how we've
conducted the process. We're onto FISA abuse and other matters. I've said for a
long time that we're looking at the State Department."
PoliZette writer Kathryn Blackhurst can be reached
at kathryn.blackhurst@lifezette.com. Follow her
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