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Facing ethics claims, Nunes to step aside from Russia probe (another scalp for the Leftists)
Bostyon Globe ^ | 4/6/17 | Prignano

Posted on 04/06/2017 8:05:58 AM PDT by pabianice

House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes said Thursday he’d temporarily step away from the committee’s Russia probe as he deals with an investigation from the House Ethics Committee about whether he made unauthorized disclosures of classified information.

“Several leftwing activist groups have filed accusations against me with the Office of Congressional Ethics,” he said. “Despite the baselessness of the charges, I believe it is in the best interests of the House Intelligence Committee and the Congress for me to have Representative Mike Conway, with assistance from Representatives Trey Gowdy and Tom Rooney, temporarily take charge of the Committee’s Russia investigation.”

The House Ethics Committee weighed in immediately following Nunes’ announcement and said it was aware of the accusations. The committee said it was investigating “certain allegations of unauthorized disclosures of classified information,” according to a statement posted by multiple media outlets.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; nunes; trumpwiretaps
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The Repubs fold. Again.
1 posted on 04/06/2017 8:05:58 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice

I’m tired of losing.


2 posted on 04/06/2017 8:07:38 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: pabianice

Why in the hell don’t some Republican groups complain against SEVERAL dems and demand ethics investigations?

Seriously - the GOP needs to at least fight back!!!


3 posted on 04/06/2017 8:09:10 AM PDT by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: pabianice

We eat our own. We eat ourselves.


4 posted on 04/06/2017 8:10:23 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: pabianice

Isn’t odd how leftists are only interested with ethics when it’s other people they can apply them to. Standards are only used to destroy with them, never used to improve.


5 posted on 04/06/2017 8:10:44 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: pabianice

Mother ####er!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHEN DOES A DEM EVER “STEP ASIDE”????

CALLING OUT SYRIA ON A BULL#### CHEMICAL WEAPONS STORY, OUR AG AND NOW THIS GUY STEPPING ASIDE BASED ON NOTHING.

Again, we DID WIN, right?


6 posted on 04/06/2017 8:11:13 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust cIonservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: pabianice

My new official response to anything involving the GOP.

7 posted on 04/06/2017 8:11:53 AM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: pabianice

Gowdy to take over as chairman of the committee - be careful what you wish for, ‘rats.......


8 posted on 04/06/2017 8:12:44 AM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: dp0622

I have to repeat everything you said, I’m beginning to wonder what the heck is going on...so the dems circle the wagons, and the pubbies ‘eat their own’...wow, I don’t know if we won or not...


9 posted on 04/06/2017 8:13:24 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: dp0622

There is one thing to be happy about.

Hillary Clinton isn’t president.

At least, not today.

Beyond that... nada.


10 posted on 04/06/2017 8:13:25 AM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: pabianice

For all you “Friday Night Lights” fans Conaway was the quarterback for the first Odessa Permian team that won State.
He’s been a “W” lapdog since.


11 posted on 04/06/2017 8:13:57 AM PDT by SanchoP
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To: pabianice

Senate ethics? An oxymoron on a par with “paper china” or “plastic silverware”.


12 posted on 04/06/2017 8:14:19 AM PDT by Tucker39 (In giving us The Christ, God gave us the ONE thing we desperately NEEDED; a Savior.)
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To: Intolerant in NJ

Gowdy to take over as chairman of the committee


Yeah. I’m thinking this may have a silver lining.


13 posted on 04/06/2017 8:15:11 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: Steely Tom

I’d love to know what happens to new representatives and senators when they first step off the bus in DC. Is there a closed-door meeting where they’re all told that they will be paid extravagantly if they just tow the line? Maybe they’re shown all of the dirt on their Internet browsing habits for the last 20 years and told to play the game or it’ll be released to the public?

Something happens when these people go to DC. Something bad.


14 posted on 04/06/2017 8:15:20 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: Intolerant in NJ

Oh yeah, mhmm, the rats better be careful.

Let’s count Trey Gowdy’s actual successes and victories.

I’m going to start at zero and then move on to the first one that comes to mind.

Zero.


15 posted on 04/06/2017 8:16:30 AM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: demkicker

“...the GOP needs to at least fight back...”

Knowing the character of scu&bag Progressives, one can guess with accuracy what happened behind the scenes.

(Maybe the word su&bag is not adequate to describe the
cancerous presence of Progressives in their revolution mode.)

The words of Thomas Jefferson begin to assert themselves.

IMHO


16 posted on 04/06/2017 8:16:43 AM PDT by ripley (ually to)
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To: chris37; HarleyLady27

You’re right there. Hillary isn’t pres. That’s always something to be happy about.

But some of these other things? We won!!

And PLEASE GOD let Trump have said that nonsense about Syria just to shut up the left, W Europe, Israel and the CIA.

ALL FOUR are dying for us to go to war!!

Our men’s lives mean NOTHING to them.


17 posted on 04/06/2017 8:17:11 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust cIonservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: pabianice

It’s not another “scalp”. Nunes is still there ... just not in front of the cameras until he clears the bogus ethics charge.


18 posted on 04/06/2017 8:18:28 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: pabianice

Hellary had her FBI files, Rice has her surveillance, the DNC has the msm’s fake news and outright lies and the GOPe has more than its fair share of RINOs working against conservatives. Surely, that has nothing to do with all these people stepping aside, bowing out and resigning.


19 posted on 04/06/2017 8:20:11 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Mr. Douglas

Gowdy’s a shrewd, tough prosecutor - behind the scenes it’s possible the ‘pubs have got plenty of evidence on illegal surveillance and leaking on Rice and others, and now it’s time to build and advance the case to the public - can’t think of anybody I’d rather see leading sessions on exposing such corruption than Gowdy....


20 posted on 04/06/2017 8:20:31 AM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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