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GOP House intel staffers who secretly went to London to find Trump dossier author Christopher Steele were sent by Devin Nunes.Two US congressional staffers who travelled to London in July and tried to contact former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele were sent by a longstanding aide to Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House intelligence committee and a close ally of the White House.
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The two staffers turned up unannounced at Steeles lawyers offices while the former MI6 officer was in the building, according to a report by Politico on Friday. But the committees leading Democrat, Adam Schiff, said on Sunday neither he nor his Republican counterpart had been informed about the staffers London trip.
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The House intelligence committees staff director is Damon Nelson, who worked as deputy chief of staff for Devin Nunes from 2003 until 2014 and then as a senior adviser before moving in 2015 to the staff of the committee which Nunes chairs. Nunes was a member of Trumps transition team on security and enraged Democrats by maintaining close contact with the president and making a secret visit late at night to the White House in March to view supposedly secret information without telling other committee members.
Nunes stepped aside from the committees Russia investigation in April, months before the London trip, after becoming the subject of an inquiry by the House ethics panel into whether he disclosed classified information in a bid to discredit the Obama administration. The Republican congressman Mike Conaway took over Nuness duties directing the Russia inquiry. Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the committee, has since praised Conaways cooperation into investigating the links between the Trump campaign and Moscow, but has also complained that Nunes has continued to intervene in the investigation, despite his understanding to stay out of it pending the ethics inquiry.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/07/donald-trump-russia-dossier-christopher-steele-devin-nunes
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(16,093 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Roman Abramovich's personal jet landed in Newark at the same time republican Comrade Casino headed to The Freaking Tax-Free republican Goat Farm (aka Bedminster) for his luxurious, taxpayer-funded gourmet, super-special, two-scoops & a hunk-of-beautiful-cake vacation.
"Just a coincidence. Move along. Nothing to see here." - Fox Propaganda, Inc.
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"Russian oligarchs plane flies into New Jersey on same day Donald Trump arrives for golf vacation"
Roman Abramovich (aka Mr. A) according to wiki "was the first person to recommend to Yeltsin that KGB operative Vladimir Putin be his successor as the Russian president..."
http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/russian-oligarch-new-jersey-donald-trump-vacation/4182/
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)«Мы, реактивные миллиардеры, будем летать в любом месте для хорошего козьего сыра, планета и атмосфера будут прокляты, у меня должен быть хороший козий сыр».
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)at the republican Goat Farm (aka Gourmet, deluxe, tax-free republican Bedminster Golf & Goatshit Resort).
Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)I am utterly convinced that his midnight run to the White House was because he saw his name in some classified intelligence documents.
Snivelling little prick!