It’s looking increasingly possible that the reason Devin Nunes’ actions over the last week seem insensible is because they are just that—nonsense. A cover for the real goal, which may be something the House intelligence committee chair has already achieved.
The Monday evening regular order meeting of the committee: cancelled. The next open hearing where witnesses were to testify: cancelled. The next closed hearing at which Comey was to brief the committee: cancelled.
Without those meetings, Nunes’ fellow committee members can’t confront him over the source or nature of the information that’s led to his bizarre behavior. Without the public hearing, there will be little chance to hear the witnesses talk to the American people about the current state of the investigation. And one of these things may be particularly important to Nunes.
The first public hearing delivered a serious of unpleasant surprises for the House Republicans. They seemed to genuinely believe that FBI Director Comey was going to tell them that there was no investigation into Trump. Comey said just the opposite.
What if the word that sent Nunes screaming into the night was simply that public hearing number two was going to be much worse, and talking to Ryan and Trump had one goal: Shut down the investigation.
All meetings of the House Intelligence Committee for the week have been scrapped.
The full committee meetings were canceled amid an increasingly tense back-and-forth that intensified over Chairman Devin Nunes' decision to cancel a public hearing set for Tuesday, two sources on the committee told CNN.
So if the goal is simply to stall the investigation … score!
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2ncYaLG
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