Devin Nunes
Donald Trump is Using Bruce Ohr to Delegitimize the Mueller Probe
Trump is continuing his war on the Department of Justice and the intelligence community by threatening to declassify documents related to Bruce Ohr, an FBI agent whose name is not well-known to the American public, but who has been a target in conspiratorial right-wing circles. ...read more
The Just Released Democratic Memo Proves Devin Nunes Was Lying
Yesterday, the House Intelligence Committee released a memo that not only counters the one that Devin Nunes wrote but proves that the information contained in it was untrue. At the beginning of February, Nunes released a memo alleging that the FBI had overstepped its boundaries ...read more
Trump Continues War On Reality By Calling Devin Nunes "A Great American Hero"
In the relentless PR war to convince America that there was no collusion, no Russian hacks and no need to investigate the president for crimes against his own country, Donald Trump tweeted this in support of the widely ridiculed Devin Nunes today: Nunes will go down in history ...read more
The Nunes Memo Omitted Much More Than It Revealed, And Here's A List
The controversial four-page memo about the Trump-Russia investigation drafted by pro-Trump stooge Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) was released unredacted to the public today and, as predicted, it's a con-job from start to finish. It alleges that FBI and Department of Justice ...read more
The Nunes Memo Lands With A Thud And Twitter Explodes With Laughter
After weeks of hype, the much anticipated "secret memo" put together by Devin Nunes (with apparently a lot of help from the White House) was released (a day late) on Friday. Republicans and white Republican voters have been in a state of almost constant frenzy leading up the big ...read more
In Case You Missed It, CIA Director Confirms Russia Is Planning To Attack Our Midterm Elections
With all the news this week over the Nunes Memo and the resignation of Andrew McCabe, it's easy to forget that the Trump Administration isn't America's only enemy. The Russians, who aided and abetted him in stealing our election, have not been duly punished, and show no signs of ...read more
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Instead Of Sounding The Alarm Over Nunes Memo, Glenn Greenwald Is Attacking James Comey
I've been attempting to write an article for the past three days about the need to find common ground with those you disagree with politically, no matter how ideologically you might be apart. I will still publish this piece, but my God does the left's contrarian-in-chief Glenn ...read more
In Wake Of Nunes Memo, James Comey Calls Trump and GOP "Weasels And Liars"
In an extraordinary statement on Twitter, former FBI director James Comey ripped into Trump and the Republican Party's attempts to smear the agency with the ludicrous 'Nunes Memo': To refer to the President of the United States and the major political party in power as ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: The Nunes Memo Will Depend On Americans Being Confused By Surveillance Laws
Two major news stories dropped yesterday, so let's cut right to the chase. First, we learned that Donald Trump apparently demanded that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein pledge his loyalty to Trump, asking Rosenstein if he's "on my team." The meeting occurred this past ...read more
The Nunes "Secret Memo" Is Already Falling Apart
When John Oliver coined the phrase "Stupid Watergate" he couldn't possibly have known just how perfectly he'd capture the entire spectacle of the Trump administration and its toadies in the Republican Party colluding with Russia and desperately looking for ways to end the ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: Worse Than Nixon
Shortly after the inaugural last January, acting Attorney General Sally Yates warned Donald Trump that his National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, had been less than forthcoming regarding his conversations with Russians. Trump's immediate response was to fire Mrs. Yates... To ...read more
Republicans Are Using The "Secret Memo" To Cynically Manipulate Frightened Trump Voters
We are watching a massive propaganda effort to legitimize the destruction of the rule of law in America and the shamelessness of Republicans in engineering it will not be forgotten. Last Spring, Republicans had a Trump problem. He had swooped in and stolen their carefully ...read more
California is Ground Zero for Control of the House in 2018
In November 2016, I felt pretty ashamed to be an American, but damn proud to be a Californian. The last year has only made me happier for my home state as we've led the Resistance and served as a role model for the rest of the country in how to eat progressive policies. This has ...read more
What The Hell Just Happened During The Senate Hearing On Russia?
Because America is so far through the Looking Glass right now that Alice is living in fear of being moved on like a bitch, on Thursday, the Senate Intelligence Committee held a public hearing on its investigation into just how far Russia meddled with 2016 election. Not ...read more
Devin Nunes Now Admits He Doesn't Know Whether Trump Team Was Actually Surveilled
**UPDATE BELOW: Nunes cancels public hearing** Hours after House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes held two press conferences to say he had seen information confirming that Donald Trump and/or his associates were incidentally surveilled between November and January, I ...read more
Leak-Hating Devin Nunes Reveals Leak And It Smells Like Bullsh*t
By now it is painfully clear that the Trump administration and its allies are doing everything they can to make plausible the president's unfounded claim President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. Apparently, that includes pretending to offer new information. To wit, early ...read more