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April 7, 2017

Nunes goes squishy, reinvigorating the left and deflating the GOP, but Freedom Watch steps in

Liz Peek Articles FREEDOM WATCH, GOP, NUNES

Devin Nunes, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, announced Thursday that he is stepping down from leading the investigation into Russia’s interference in our election, and allegations that the Obama White House used surveillance information on Trump associates for political purposes. It is a terrible mistake, and a blow to Republicans.

The optics are terrible, suggesting that in pursuing information which has tied former National Security Adviser Susan Rice to the “unmasking” of people involved with the Trump campaign, Nunes has done something wrong.

Nothing could be further from the truth, but his withdrawal will buttress Democrats’ efforts to distract from the damaging findings, which tend to support to President Trump’s charge that President Obama had him “wiretapped.”

Democrats and their enablers in the liberal media have been pulling out all the stops to keep the public focused on suggestions that someone in the Trump campaign colluded with Russian agents in an effort to undermine the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.

This narrative has occupied center stage since the election, comforting those who will never understand why Mrs. Clinton lost to an upstart political neophyte who crossed every politically correct boundary imaginable. An upstart, as it turns out, that said what millions of Americans were ready to hear.

More recently, the media has continued to pump up the Russian connection story, even though FBI Chief James Comey and a former Director of National Intelligence have both said there is absolutely no evidence that any collusion took place.

At the same time, Democrats have attempted to discredit and ignore growing indications that the Obama White House collected possibly damaging information about the Trump team from “incidental” surveillance, which it then disseminated to media and political organizations.

While the trail grows cold on the hunt for the Russian connection, it has grown steadily hotter leading to President Obama and his confederates.

Chairman Nunes was alerted to the involvement of Susan Rice by the White House Counsel’s office, and reviewed in situ the logs which confirmed that it was she who requested to know the identities of individuals picked up through surveillance.

Her probes may have been legal, but they are suspicious. They had “nothing to do with Russia” according to Nunes, and they extend back almost a year before the election.

She has been asked to testify before the House Intelligence Committee. When she appears before its members she will have to explain why the unmasking requests were appropriate under the guidelines that determine how such secure material is to be handled.

Several activist groups have charged Nunes with violations before the House Ethics Committee – accusations he called “entirely false and politically motivated.”

It should be noted that such allegations are easy to register, even if there is no supporting evidence of misdeeds. They assert that in going to the White House and then speaking to the president, Nunes improperly put politics first. He has been accused of using his power to help Trump, rather than to conduct an unbiased investigation.

It is a laughable charge. The logs were physically located at the White House; that is where they had to be viewed.

It would have been better, in retrospect if Nunes had invited the ranking minority member Adam Schiff to join him at that visit; hindsight is always helpful. The reality is that Nunes was following a legitimate lead; Democrats simply don’t enjoy where it has led.

Nunes’ role will be taken up by Texas Congressman Mike Conaway, assisted by Trey Gowdy. Conaway is an ardent conservative and long-time ally of George W. Bush; he is also known as tough on Russia. Though he may be the perfect person for the role, the fact is that he is not well known, and does not bring the clout carried by Nunes to this role. He will be facing off before Adam Schiff, who has shown himself to be a political infighter.

Democrats are delighted because Conaway has not been a Trump loyalist. Republicans will be thankful that former prosecutor Trey Gowdy, best known as the head of the Benghazi inquiry, is at Conaway’s right hand.

The most negative aspect of this leadership change is that many Republicans will see Nunes’ decision as yet another failure of a squishy GOP leadership to stand up to Democrats.

For years conservatives have railed at Republicans in Congress for going along with higher debt ceilings, higher taxes, and generally ceding victory to President Obama even as they took over the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2012. Now that they occupy the Oval Office and have majorities in both houses of Congress, those on the right are ready for some wins.

The expected confirmation of Neil Gorsuch is a big win – for conservatives and for the GOP. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is well aware that had he allowed Democrats to broker a deal allowing the confirmation of Gorsuch but hamstringing future Supreme Court fights, which they had proposed, he would have been run out of town on a rail.

Republicans want their leaders to show some backbone; McConnell, in invoking the “nuclear option,” did just that. So did Nunes, in ferreting out Susan Rice’s role in “unmasking” the Trump team. And then he caved.

The good news is that Freedom Watch, a right-wing activist group, is taking up the fight. They have filed a strongly-worded ethics complaint against Adam Schiff, accusing him of trying to cover up unlawful surveillance and other violations for “partisan purposes.”

The ranking minority head of the Intel Committee praised Nunes for stepping away, and allowing the investigation to go forward in a less partisan manner. Will he follow suit?

 

Published on FoxNews.com.

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8 months ago

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Are you better off than you were 2 years ago?
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Inflation already hurting Americans, and Biden's Build Back Better will make things even worse

Are you better off than you were two years ago? That’s what Republicans will ask voters a year from now.

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Inflation is worldwide and COVID induced.

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Swamp Think

Peek's article posted today on the Fox News website did not mention one word about President Trump's accomplishment of not only leading the way to American Energy Independence but for the country to become net exporters of the energy we and our allies could really use now.

Under President Trump, oil was in the low 40s (while on the same page, oil traders are now predicting as high as $200/barrel this month!), gas in our tanks cost below two bucks, inflation was under two percent and gas station attendant Putin with an economy about the size of Italy's and who is totally dependent on the price of energy was placed in an economic cage… by President Trump.

Instead Peek gives credit to media Saint Obama for his "all the above" strategy which consistent with how he operated was all campaign talk with ZERO follow through.

Does Peek not remember that Saint Obama's response to Putin invading Crimea was to send blankets.

If you want a quick read on Swamp Think, check in with Fox News.

From the Murdoch boys and Paul Ryan on down, no one is pushing the self-serving, elite globalists agenda of running the world as their personal piggy bank harder than Fox News.

And how are the globalists doing at managing world affairs?

No Trump, No Trump Doctrine

There's a growing rumble, by the minute, from people all over the planet who are suddenly missing Trump's policies, not necessarily Trump.

First, Trump's policies, domestic and foreign, were clear and common-sense driven which is anathema to the Swamp control freaks who thrive on complication and confusion to mask their real agendas and who they're really working for.

Second, the hypocrites who are now lamenting Trump's policies are the same, domestic and foreign, who fought Trump every inch of the way to prevent the implementation of policies that clearly worked.

Third, without Trump the fighter, no Trump policies would have ever seen the light of day.

And without what is now collectively the Trump Doctrine, what clear metric would we have to truly understand the depth and devastation of the Biden/Swamp debacle?

Don't you know that the global supply chain story is done on purpose for there to be empty shelves at the grocery stores and what not to screw with the public. This is done by the world economic Forum with the likes of Klaus Schwab Bill Gates and George Soros and their ilk

YOU are the delusional personality, dear. Sticking it against the US to please 🖕trump and putin. Disgusting anti American.

Maybe Liz you would support some immigration reform , you bitch about not having enough servers in your entitled selfish world , oh and you are against mask wearing too , how trumpian of you, the pandemic is all a hoax to you , just dont get sick out there might not be any hospital beds for you . The drs and nurses are sick and tired of taking care of anti mask anti vax selfish repubs Go claim your Darwin Award .

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Progressives got hammered on Election Day- but that was only the latest big defeat. What does this mean for Dems? Can Joe pivot? (spoiler-probably not)
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They may not know it yet, but the ultra-liberal cabal that has choked Democrat politics and humiliated spineless party leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has lost its mojo.

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Liz have you not heard latest on the “russia collusion” “steele dossier” Fiona Hill???
Or are you a typical msm reporter?

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8 months ago

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Joe Biden wanted to be an historic president- and he has done that. Worst ratings slide of any president since WWII.
He (or whoever is running WH) doesn’t care about voters’ top issues – instead Team Biden obsessing about climate change, gender and race.
No wonder he’s in trouble!
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Voters are worried about inflation, jobs, crime, education and our open border, while the Biden White House is laser-focused on climate change, transgender rights, racism and reducing inequality.

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The great days turned to very bad days in less than a year.
Congress needs a flip to GOP next year to stop the craziness

Climate change is important.
The GOP may not care about it now, but their children will.
He is trying to get an infrastructure bill through.
He has had issues with Afghanistan, but what else could he do
The people who are taking over Afghanistan were released by the previous administration.
I am sure that Biden is not perfect but he is better than Trump.

Your bias is ridiculous. Makes you a bad writer. Btw avg teacher pay is way above 31000. Sensationalize much?

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worst ratings only from a side thats ignorant to the truth. the effects of coming off a pandemic with oil companies profitting off the pumps in order to pay their shareholders back from profits lost. inflation effects the entire world but of course your base doesnt pull their heads out their asses for one second to look around and use common sense. keep spreading bullshit and weakening our country til it no longer functions as a democracy….bc i see through your fake Christian patriotic pow wows. you are the opposite of ehat you claim and you are the definition of what you claim your rivals are. deflection, projection, hypocrisy. 3 words that sum you up

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