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Related: About this forumSign petition to Ryan:REMOVE NUNES
https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/petitions/remove-nunes-from-the-house-intelligence-committee?detail=emailaction&link_id=5&can_id=bfcadfa948ac07d9bf5b1038644acae5&source=email-sign-now-remove-nunes-from-the-house-intelligence-committee&email_referrer=email_295487&email_subject=sign-now-remove-nunes-from-the-house-intelligence-committeeThanks to the progressive movement's activism, including the work of hundreds of thousands of CREDO members, Nunes supposedly stepped aside last year from running the House Russia investigation after sharing classified intelligence directly with the press and the White House. However, he is still the Committee's chair and has been working to subvert its work in order to protect Donald Trump.3 If Paul Ryan really believes his own words that Congress is responsible for holding the executive branch accountable,4 he must now remove Nunes from the Committee.
Tell Paul Ryan and the rest of House Republican leadership: Immediately remove Rep. Nunes from the House Intelligence Committee. Click here to sign the petition.
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It is clear that Trump and his cronies want the baseless Nunes memo released, even though members of his own party will not vouch for its accuracy, because it helps build their narrative that the Mueller investigation is a witch-hunt with Trump as its target.5 We now know that Trump reportedly demanded that Mueller be fired last summer, and the only reason Mueller is still on the job is because White House counsel stood up to Trump.6 It seems now that in lieu of outright firing, Trump and his lapdogs are doing everything they can to erode the publics faith in the investigation and undermine Muellers independence.
Devin Nunes was a member of the Trump transition team, and his independence has been suspect for more than a year. But his latest actions go far and above stalling his committees investigation: He is now actively using his access to classified information to interfere in a separate independent investigation.
Nunes conspiracy theory-laden memo attracted major attention in part because thousands of Russian bots engaged on Twitter calling for the memo to be released.7 In any other era, the claims the memo supposedly makes would be laughable. Reportedly, it attacks the Rod Rosenstein, the Republican who is supervising Robert Mueller, because he signed off on a warrant to spy on Trump associate Carter Page, based on credible reports that Page had been collaborating with Russian spies.8 The idea that the FBI wouldnt investigate him is ludicrous, but by dressing up fringe right-wing conspiracy theories as a memo, Nunes is making these absurd attacks mainstream with the ultimate goal of discrediting Rosenstein and eroding public faith in the independent FBI investigation.
Tell Paul Ryan and the rest of House Republican leadership: Immediately remove Rep. Nunes from the House Intelligence Committee. Click here to sign the petition.
SIGN THE PETITION
When Republicans voted to release the memo, they voted against even allowing the minority report authored by Rep. Adam Schiff, which points out the flaws in Nunes narrative, to be released to members outside the Committee.9 They also refused to allow the Department of Justice to review the memo for accuracy or redact anything that might jeopardize the investigation.10 Whats more, without redaction, the public release of the so-called memo could jeopardize not only the effectiveness, but even the safety of the FBI and other law enforcement officials.11
Republicans in Congress might hope they can obfuscate and redirect our attention, but if we make it clear we are paying attention and demand that they put the integrity of our democracy first, we can build pressure on them to act.
Demand that House Republican leaders immediately remove Rep. Nunes from the House Intelligence Committee. Click the link below to sign the petition.
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Sign petition to Ryan:REMOVE NUNES (Original Post)
BigmanPigman
Feb 2018
OP
Pachamama
(17,013 posts)1. kick
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)2. I've never seen a petition do any good
You might as well petition Sarah Huckleberry Sanders to release her pie recipe.
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)4. This Could Work
Just kidding.
Jim__
(14,456 posts)3. Signed it.