Rep. Devin Nunes cleared by House Ethics Committee after complaint he divulged classified informatio

[diva77]

Source: Los Angeles Times

by Sarah D. Wire

The House Ethics Committee on Thursday cleared House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes of Tulare of any wrongdoing after a complaint that he had disclosed classified information related to the Houses Russia investigation.

When the complaint was filed, Nunes said he would step away from leading the Houses investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election, though he did not formally recuse himself.

In a statement, the Ethics Committee said experts it interviewed determined that the information Nunes disclosed was not classified.

Based solely on the conclusion of these classification experts that the information that Representative Nunes disclosed was not classified, the committee will take no further action and considers this matter closed, it states.


Read more: http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-pol-essential-washington-updates-house-ethics-committee-clears-rep-devin-1512689797-htmlstory.html

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so much for my opinion of the Ethics Committee

last word in headline is "information"

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Why would we expect anything else?

They are playing for high stakes. It's as if this is their last chance with the hope if they get voted out of office, they can still have enough to block any attempts to reverse their destruction of the nation.

[rainin]

2. Recommended edit to headline: Rep. Devin Nunes cleared by Republican Led House Ethics Committee n/t

[diva77]

5. I was trying to abide by the rules for posting in LBN - sorry headline ran long!

[onenote]

15. The Chairman is a republican, but the membership is equally divided

There are the same number of Democrats as Republicans.

[Thor_MN]

3. Which experts?

[diva77]

6. good question

[bluestarone]

4. i'll wait

for Mueller to decide this

[ProudLib72]

7. Is there an indictment for Nunes?

I'm asking seriously. I can't remember mention of one.

[MrsMatt]

8. Well, based on that decision

I suppose had Franken's case had gone to the Ethics Committee, he'd have had a bad time of it.

[diva77]

9. I've been wondering about that myself.

Here's a link to what Wikipedia says about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Ethics

rethugs tried to gut the committee in Jan, 2017

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/02/politics/office-of-congressional-ethics-oversight-of-ethics-committee-amendment/index.html

I guess even tho' they were unable to get rid of it completely, they somehow rendered it ineffective when applying ethics to rethugs

[onenote]

14. Franken was in the Senate so it wouldn't have gone to the House Ethics Committee

And the Senate Ethics Committee, like the House Ethics Committee has the same number of Republicans and Democrats.

[diva77]

19. Ah yes, you are correct.

...the chairman of that committee is a republican as well

[ananda]

10. Oh gee, what a surprise.

I'm so shocked...

Not.

[Honeycombe8]

11. What a shocker. Same ol' same ol'. Don't tell me...there were Dems on that committee, too?

I wonder how they came down on that.

[KewlKat]

12. Predicted outcome.....he will now kill the Russia investigation..........

[not fooled]

13. Prolly askairt

that if they ruled against nunes, the pukes would shut them down.

See: npr after pukes began threatening to shut them down and gradually cutting their funding--can't have any sort of independent voice out there. Turned into "neutered public radio."

[Judi Lynn]

16. Nasty, slimy, treacherous dirtbag. Can't wait until he finally has nowhere to hide from his deeds.

He doesn't have an honest bone in his gooey body.

[diva77]

18. +1000 This!! Eloquently stated!!

[YOHABLO]

17. This is no longer a Republic nor a Democracy. There are no ethics

[Turbineguy]

20. Good.

now he can get back to working for Putin.

It's really hard to get anything done with these nosy busy bodies hovering around.