Nunes could face obstruction charges: Expert says colluding with White House nullifies...

[DonViejo]

Nunes could face obstruction charges: Expert says colluding with White House nullifies congressional immunity

DAVID EDWARDS
31 JAN 2018 AT 10:54 ET

Former White House ethics counsel Norm Eisen warned on Wednesday that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) may have opened himself up to obstruction of justice charges if he colluded with the White House to create a memo smearing the FBI’s Russia investigation.

The Daily Beast reported this week that Nunes has refused to deny that he worked with White House staffers while writing an allegedly misleading memo suggesting that the Justice Department acted improperly when it extended surveillance of former Trump campaign staffer Carter Page, who was thought to be a foreign agent.

Link to tweet

The Congressional Immunity law states that members of the U.S. Congress can not be prosecuted while they are “attending a session of the body to which the member belongs, excluding an arrest for treason, breach of the peace, or a felony.” The law also provides immunity from arrest or interrogation “for any speech or debate entered into during a legislative session.”

Neither of those provisions would seem to apply to members working with another branch of government to obstruct justice.

###

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/nunes-face-obstruction-charges-expert-says-colluding-white-house-nullifies-congressional-immunity/

[Pachamama]

1. The only "Cleanse" that needs to be done is of TRAITORS and CRIMINALS to our Nation who have

....conspired against our Nation and democracy and constitution, obstructing justice and being enemies of the State.

And Nunes is one of them.

[ffr]

2. Take him down. Take them all down. Do your stuff law enforcement!

LOCK THEM UP!

[C_U_L8R]

3. And someone in the White House

had access to the underlaying classified materials that went into writing the memo.
They may be in huge trouble.

[sunonmars]

4. Not to mention people in the WH will be facing charges too....they are not too bright.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I'm surprised Mueller's people haven't interviewed him yet (that we know of),

but it seems increasingly likely that they will.

[sunonmars]

8. Nunes will shit his pants when Mueller hauls him in for a little chat.

[bluestarone]

9. i hope so cause i feel he's

#2 after tRUMP that i want in PRISON

[sunonmars]

11. Nunes is that little shit at school who acts all big then craps himself when a bigger fish smacks

him across the face....

No spine, he will literally spill his guts in front of Mueller with pee running down his leg.

[Wwcd]

12. + a million. K n R

Link to tweet

?s=17

[politicaljunkie41910]

6. Lock him up!!! Lock him up!!!!

[kentuck]

7. But who would he have worked with at the White House??

....and would they not also be subject to obstruction charges??

[sunonmars]

10. if Nunes leaked classified materials or colluded to obstruct Mueller ,all of them are in trouble

[procon]

13. Its a long way from "could", to "is", and no one in the Trump administration

has the will to do their duty as their oath of office demands.