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House Intelligence Committee chair Devin Nunes has proven for the second time this week that he is unfit to run any investigation of Russia’s attempt to hack our election, or the growing evidence that the Trump campaign and associates had contacts with Russian intelligence during the presidential campaign.
Add your name to the thousands who are demanding the Justice Department appoint a special counsel to investigate Trump’s ties to Russia.
On Friday we learned that Nunes joined Senate Intelligence Committee chair Richard Burr, also a Republican, in helping spread disinformation about the FBI’s, and other intelligence agencies’, investigation of Russia’s ties to Team Trump. That’s potential obstruction of justice, but just as importantly, it means Nunes and Burr are part of Team Trump, are cheerleaders for Team Trump, and spokespeople for Team Trump. Neither can run a fair and impartial investigation of an issue on which they have already taken sides.
Nunes put the icing on the cake on Saturday, when he referred to the Russia investigation as a “witch hunt” and “McCarthyism.”
What Nunes is a fan of is investigating the investigators. The only investigation Nunes wants is of those who may have leaked information to the media showing that Trump’s team was cavorting with Russian spies. In other words, Devin Nunes is once again doing the bidding of Team Trump, and trying to hide the story rather than reveal it.
We now know that the House and Senate Intelligence Committee chairs are compromised. We also know that the White House is per se compromised because the investigation is about them. And we know that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is compromised because he worked on the Trump campaign — there is no way that Sessions can be in charge of an investigation that could eventually point to his own involvement.
The only answer is an independent investigation, and the appointment of a special counsel, a proposal that was endorsed this past Friday by conservative GOP congressman Darrell Issa.
Add your name to the thousands who are demanding the Justice Department appoint a special counsel to investigate Trump’s ties to Russia.
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