Ex-House intel counsel says Rep. Nunes tipping off Trump is 'breakdown in entire oversight process'
https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/statu...rsight-process
JEREMY BASH:
Brian, I served as chief counsel of the house intelligence committee, and I think in 40 years of their existence, since post-watergate with the church and pike committees that emerged from those scandals, I have never heard of a chairman of an oversight committee going to brief the president of the United States about concerns he has about things he's read in intelligence reports.
The job of the committee is to do oversight over the executive branch. Not to bring them into their investigation or tip them off to things they may be looking at.
And I've got to believe that other members of the committee are horrified at what they just witnessed.
This is a chairman who is supposed to be doing an impartial, bipartisan investigation of the president and his inner circle.
Instead, he goes and basically tells the president and his team everything he knows.
It's very concerning, particularly when what he is saying is that the collection was lawful, court ordered by lifetime federal judges against valid foreign intelligence targets, that the reports generated by the nonpartisan, nonpolitical intelligence community were of foreign intelligence value.
And then he goes and tries to make this into a political cover story for the president's tweet storm two Saturdays ago and potentially reveals to the president things about the committee's existing investigation.
This is a true breakdown, Brian, in the entire oversight process.
What’s clear again today is Nunes, a man who was himself a key member of Donald Trump’s “executive committee transition team,”
must recuse himself and a special prosecutor should be appointed immediately.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017...mation-hearing
America (of the Repugs/VRWC/BigCorp oligarchy) is ed and un able.
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