Flashback: Nunes ended Russia investigation without calling dozens of relevant witnesses
and then the Republican members of the committee voted to conceal the transcripts. Transparency!
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/op-ed/article219558065.html#storylink=cpy
Nunes buried evidence on Russian meddling to protect Trump. I know because I’m on the committee
BY REP. ERIC SWALWELL
OCTOBER 05, 2018 12:03 PM, UPDATED OCTOBER 05, 2018 05:43 PM
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Committee Democrats asked to immediately send the transcripts to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who hasn’t been allowed to see them under Nunes’ rules. There’s good reason to believe many witnesses committed perjury or offered information relevant to the special counsel’s work. But Nunes opposed it, and it was voted down.
Committee Democrats then moved to have the transcripts released to the public immediately — after a 10-day intelligence community review — to avoid any selective release or other political manipulation. Again, Nunes opposed this.
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The Republicans ran a “take them at their word” investigation when most of the Trump team clearly didn’t deserve that benefit of the doubt. So at last week’s hearing, I moved to subpoena many of the records that could fill a lot of the gaps. Nunes nixed it.
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The Nunes fix was in from the very start. Soon after 2016’s election, as we began to see the breadth of Russia’s interference, I had approached him with an idea: “Let’s have an independent commission look at what the Russians did,” just as we had after the Sept. 11 attacks.
“We can handle this on the committee,” Nunes insisted. I was doubtful, but I never expected that by “handle,” he meant “bury.”
For a detailed account of Nunes' abuse of power when he chaired the HPSCI, see the Moscow Project (Center for American Progress):
https://themoscowproject.org/explainers/the-nunes-file/
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