The Trump Administration
Nunes
Nunes
Devin Nunes, Chairman of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; U.S. Representative for California's 22nd congressional district. —"RECUSED" from Russia investigations, but still issuing subpoenas
Day 789
Tuesday 19 March 2019
His lawsuit named parody accounts called “Devin Nunes’ Mom” and “Devin Nunes’ Cow.” Twitter suspended the Devin Nunes’ Mom account earlier this month because Nunes’ “real mom” complained
Day 788
Monday 18 March 2019
Nunes accuses Twitter of having a “political agenda” by allowing two anonymous accounts—“Devin Nunes’ Mom” (@DevinNunesMom) and “Devin Nunes’ Cow” (@DevinCow)—and Mair to attack, defame, and demean him.
Day 763
Thursday 21 February 2019
The steps McCabe took to open an investigation after Trump fired Comey were immediately relayed to the White House by Nunes.
Day 586
Tuesday 28 August 2018
Nunes [...] sought unsuccessfully to meet chiefs of Britain’s three intelligence agencies on a recent visit to London
Day 566
Wednesday 8 August 2018
“We have to keep the majority. If we do not keep the majority, all of this goes away.”
Day 552
Wednesday 25 July 2018
According to Justice Department officials, the California Republican has been offered opportunities to review the materials at a secure location at the department for months, but he has not come.
Day 549
Sunday 22 July 2018
With the release on Friday of a redacted copy of both the initial warrant application targeting Page in October 2016 and the three 90-day extensions of the warrant, we can get a better sense of just how far from the mark the Nunes memo actually was.
Day 509
Tuesday 12 June 2018
Rosenstein has butted heads with House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes for months over a subpoena for documents related to the Russia investigation, but the battle spilled out into public view Tuesday after Fox News reported staff on the committee felt "personally attacked" at a meeting with Rosenstein in January.
Day 502
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Day 460
Tuesday 24 April 2018
In inquiries on Benghazi and Russia and beyond, the California congressman has displayed a deep mistrust of the expert consensus on reality — a disposition that has helped him make friends in the current White House.
Day 431
Monday 26 March 2018
His work defending the White House from questions about Russian meddling in U.S. elections has made Nunes a vulnerable target in the midterms
Day 406
Thursday 1 March 2018
That Nunes would leak Warner’s confidential text messages is ironic, given that he spent much of 2017 running interference for Trump by publicly claiming his campaign officials had their privacy violated when their names appeared in intelligence reports.
In January, one of Mr. Nunes’s staff members requested that copies be shared with the House committee as well... Days later, the messages were published by Fox News, the person said. Fox’s report said that it had obtained the documents from a Republican source it did not name.
Day 401
Saturday 24 February 2018
Day 388
Sunday 11 February 2018
Resembling a local, conservative news site, “The California Republican” is classified on Facebook as a “media/news company” and claims to deliver “the best of US, California, and Central Valley news, sports, and analysis.” But the website is paid for by Nunes’ campaign committee, according to small print at the bottom of the site.
Day 382
Monday 5 February 2018
Day 379
Friday 2 February 2018
The four-page document was compiled by staff of the House Intelligence Committee’s chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and released against strong opposition from the Justice Department, FBI and Democratic lawmakers.
“I required the journalists who broke the 2013 domestic spying stories (as a condition of access) to talk with gov in advance of publication as an extraordinary precaution to prevent any risk of harm. Turns out our standard of care was higher than the actual Intel committee.”
The memo is the most explicit Republican effort yet to discredit the FBI's investigation into Trump and Russia, alleging that the investigation was infused with an anti-Trump bias under the Obama administration and supported with political opposition research.
Day 377
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Day 375
Monday 29 January 2018
The House Intelligence Committee chair claimed he’d been completely cleared, but the panel probing his conduct never gained access to the intelligence he was accused of divulging.
Day 349
Wednesday 3 January 2018
Rosenstein was spotted entering Ryan's office, and a spokesman for the speaker confirmed that Rosenstein and Wray had requested the meeting. A second person familiar with the meeting said it was related to a document request issued over the summer by House intelligence committee chairman Devin Nunes.
Day 346
Sunday 31 December 2017
But Nunes’s moves coincide with what Democrats say is a coordinated GOP effort to shutter the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe, publicly absolve President Trump of the most serious allegations against him, and refocus the House’s resources against the law enforcement officials, such as Mueller, who continue to investigate Trump.
Day 230
Wednesday 6 September 2017
Nunes, who despite stepping aside from directing the House Russia investigation has been leading his own separate investigation, accused Sessions and the FBI of stonewalling him
Day 195
Wednesday 2 August 2017
The latest to go was Ezra Cohen-Watnick
A fierce Trump loyalist, Mr. Cohen-Watnick drew attention when he ... briefed Representative Devin Nunes ... on classified intelligence reports revealing that American intelligence agencies had conducted incidental surveillance of Mr. Trump’s transition team.
Day 134
Friday 2 June 2017
...engaging in the same practice that President Trump has accused the Obama administration of abusing
Day 133
Thursday 1 June 2017
On Wednesday, the California Republican appeared to dive back into that inquiry, exercising his authority as chairman to unilaterally issue subpoenas to the intelligence community for information on the alleged improper “unmasking” of Trump campaign officials
...a Republican aide suggested to CNN that Nunes had never formally recused himself from the investigation.
Day 103
Tuesday 2 May 2017
Her previously scheduled appearance in front of the House intelligence committee was canceled by its chairman Rep. Devin Nunes
Day 77
Thursday 6 April 2017
...now officially under an ethics investigation for allegedly disclosing classified intelligence.
Nunes said he would "continue to fulfill all my other responsibilities as Committee Chairman"
Day 73
Sunday 2 April 2017
McCain blamed House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Sunday for destroying the bipartisan nature of the committee's investigation
Day 72
Saturday 1 April 2017
“There’s no question in my mind that the president, with the aid of his national security adviser staff, came up with some kind of a ruse to try and suggest there was some kind of validity” to his accusation
Day 71
Friday 31 March 2017
...current and former officials say that, once Nunes admitted he visited a secure room in the White House — as he did earlier this week — it became clear that White House officials played a role in providing him information.
Day 70
Thursday 30 March 2017
In what seemed like a moment of unintentional candor, Yoho said Nunes “works for” and “answers to” President Trump. MSNBC’s Craig Melvin shot back, “Does he? Or does he work for constituents?”
The revelation on Thursday that White House officials disclosed the reports ... is likely to fuel criticism that the intelligence chairman has been too eager to do the bidding of the Trump administration
Day 68
Tuesday 28 March 2017
Nunes said on Tuesday he will not divulge - even to other members of his panel - who gave him intelligence reports that indicated President Donald Trump and his associates may have been ensnared in incidental intelligence collection.
...the Justice Department notified Yates earlier this month that the administration considers a great deal of her possible testimony to be barred from discussion in a congressional hearing because the topics are covered by the presidential communication privilege.
Yates and another witness at the planned hearing, former CIA director John Brennan, had made clear to government officials by Thursday that their testimony to the committee probably would contradict some statements that White House officials had made
The full committee meetings were cancelled over an increasingly tense back-and-forth that intensified over Mr Nunes' decision to cancel a public hearing set for Tuesday
Day 67
Monday 27 March 2017
Nunes’ meetings at the White House have increased suspicions among Democrats that the congressman’s decision to go public with his allegation was orchestrated by the Trump administration to take some heat off Trump
...a new statement from Nunes on Monday that revealed he obtained the evidence last Tuesday on “White House grounds” is putting Trump’s team in an even more awkward position.
Day 66
Sunday 26 March 2017
Nunes canceled an open hearing that had been scheduled for Tuesday with former senior officials who have battled Trump.
Schiff ... said that he suspected the cancellation was driven by “very strong pushback from the White House.”
Day 65
Saturday 25 March 2017
...the evident desire of the chairman of that committee to protect President Trump may only be increasing Trump’s problems.
Day 63
Thursday 23 March 2017
"I felt I had a duty and obligation to tell him because as you know he’s been taking a lot of heat in the news media."
Apology or not, though, Nunes already has showed his hand: he is playing the role of White House defender rather than Congressional investigator
“At the end of the day, sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you don’t”
Since even Nunes admits that this surveillance was routine, why this revelation would “vindicate” Trump’s accusation that Obama wiretapped him remains a mystery.
Several individuals on the Trump team were eventually “unmasked” and had their identities “widely disseminated,” despite the information being of limited intelligence value, Nunes said.
Day 62
Wednesday 22 March 2017
“The chairman will need to decide whether he is the chairman of an independent investigation into conduct which includes allegations of potential coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russians, or he is going to act as a surrogate of the White House, because he cannot do both”
Earlier on Wednesday, in what was apparently a surprise to his fellow committee members, Nunes held a news conference and then briefed President Donald Trump on what he said was evidence that members of Trump’s transition team, possibly including Trump himself, were under U.S. government surveillance following November’s presidential election.
...members of Donald Trump’s transition team, possibly including Trump himself, were under inadvertent surveillance following November’s presidential election.
Day 55
Wednesday 15 March 2017
The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee ... made clear Wednesday that there is zero evidence to suggest Trump Tower was wiretapped.