[ April 19, 2024 ]
Devin Nunes, Californian congressman and one of the leading voices in the Republican side who’s questioned the whole Russia-stole-the-election-and-gave-it-to-Donald-Trump line of thought, sent out a curious tweet just recently that suggests the Democrats may have some answers to give.
He wrote: “The leakers and their recipients have been found …”
And in the tweet, he linked to a story from The Federalist, which spoke of the media battle to take down Trump.
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Here’s the tweet:
The leakers and their recipients have been found… https://t.co/pXBFRCnLuQ
— Devin Nunes (@DevinNunes) March 6, 2018
Media Fight For Democrats In Washington Leak Wars
Reporters are hostile to even the notion of Republican leaks, but remarkably incurious about the actual Democratic deluge of leaks.
And here’s more from the Federalist:
The New York Times published a story on March 1, based on anonymous sources, claiming that Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., had met with House Speaker Paul Ryan to blame Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., for leaking texts between Mark Warner and the attorney for a Russian oligarch connected to the author of the salacious and unverified dossier the FBI used to secure a wiretap against a Trump campaign affiliate.
It was a weird story for many reasons. For one, it was the first time the paper had even mentioned these encrypted texts, despite their newsworthiness and the dramatic twist they gave parts of the Russia investigation.
For another, the story was denied publicly by Burr, who told CNN that the account was simply wrong.
For another, it turned out that no members on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence had even seen the texts, according to Nunes and others on the committee.
But the weirdest part about the story is that The New York Times is a frequent recipient of actual leaks from House Democrats on the Intelligence Committee. On Feb. 27, Democrats on the committee leaked Hope Hicks’ testimony directly to The New York Times. In fact, Nicholas Fandos, the very same reporter on the anonymously sourced story about House Republicans supposedly leaking, received a leak from Democrats on the committee, which he immediately published under the headline, “Hope Hicks Acknowledges She Sometimes Tells White Lies for Trump.”
Fandos ran with the spin given to him by Schiff and his staff.
WASHINGTON — Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, told House investigators on Tuesday that her work for President Trump, who has a reputation for exaggerations and outright falsehoods, had occasionally required her to tell white lies.
But after extended consultation with her lawyers, she insisted that she had not lied about matters material to the investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible links to Trump associates, according to three people familiar with her testimony.
The exchange came during more than eight hours of private testimony before the House Intelligence Committee. Ms. Hicks declined to answer similar questions about other figures from the Trump campaign or the White House.
The story is based on three anonymous Democrats who serve on or work for the committee. A Republican who serves on the committee spoke publicly about this top news that Fandos carried directly from Democrats’ spin room to the pages of the New York Times. In fact, he said that the latest — of dozens upon dozens — of leaks from House Democrats was the last straw for him, not just because it was yet another leak but because it was spun so falsely.
“We’ve gotten to the point now where we’re literally bringing people in for nine hours just so the Democrats can leak to the press,” said Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla.
Later reports revealed that Hicks hadn’t testified about anything dramatic but had occasionally said her boss was in a meeting when he was actually just otherwise preoccupied. Now, maybe that’s treason and worthy of breathless New York Times coverage and a day-long general media freakout. But if it is, that media will have nothing else to write about for decades and thousands of dead Washington, D.C., press secretaries will soon be swinging from the gallows, all hanged for treason and high crimes. Schiff, who if he didn’t leak the testimony himself, oversees the Democrats who did, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that it was “unfair” that the Hicks testimony had been leaked. Really.
Jack Langer, spokesman for Rep. Devin Nunes, who chairs the committee, found the whole thing Kafkaesque, according to one of the Fandos stories:
“The New York Times, a prominent purveyor of leaks, is highlighting anonymous sources leaking information that accuses Republicans of leaking information,” he said. “I’m not sure if this coverage could possibly get more absurd.”
It is a weird thing to watch the media uncritically receive and regurgitate dozens of leaks — all of them out of context, some of them downright false — from Rep. Adam Schiff and his team and then write up that the other side is leaking. This is particularly bizarre given the general lack of leaks coming from House Permanent Select Committee Republicans. At the very least it’s worth noting that there were no leaks from Intelligence Committee Republicans about their 4-page memo alleging FISA abuses, even as the agencies and Democrats on the committee put out anticipatory leaks to cushion the blow from that memo. In fact, they leaked to … Nicholas Fandos.
Here are four other examples of serious, if deceptive, leaks from Schiff and the Democrats he oversees.
1) Selective Leak Of Stone-Wikileaks Texts
I’m not sure how much of this is sloppy and credulous reporting vs. sloppy leaking by Team Schiff, but last week Natasha Bertrand of The Atlantic wrote about a leak from Democrats on the Intelligence Committee of direct Twitter messages between Wikileaks and former Trump advisor Roger Stone. The actual texts depicted Wikileaks telling Stone to stop falsely claiming that they’d been communicating. Bertrand framed it exactly the opposite — that the texts actually provided smoking gun proof that Wikileaks and Roger Stone were plotting to steal an election. The headline and subhed announce, “Roger Stone’s Secret Messages with WikiLeaks: Transcripts obtained by The Atlantic show Donald Trump’s longtime confidante corresponded with the radical-transparency group.” Contra Bertrand, the exchange had previously been reported on here as being “consistent with the group’s public statements casting doubt on claims by former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone that he had advanced knowledge of the group’s anti-Clinton leaks.”Bertrand repeatedly sources her story to the “House Intelligence Committee,” meaning Democrats on that Committee. She squeezes 1,600 words out of the texts, leading observers to write that, “Stone was Trump’s intermediary to Julian Assange’s secretly partisan pro #TrumpRussia media outlet.” A senior editor at The Atlantic, who you have to charitably assume didn’t actually read the piece, hyped it as an actual “smoking gun” of treasonous collusion between Trump and Russia …
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49 Comments
6 years ago
Nunes will be remembered as a true hero to the American people.
6 years ago
Reply to
Fromafar
He’s only beginning! Stay tuned. He may become our next AG, or SCOTUS.
MAGA
6 years ago
Reply to
ee
Nunes is young an needs to slowly work his way through DC to maximize the benefit we receive from him.
6 years ago
Reply to
Michelle Palmateer
Young lady, would Nunes do better for the entire nation if he stayed there in CA and turned it from a blue state to a red state?
6 years ago
Reply to
Fromafar
That the liberal MSM refuses to reveal who their anonymous sources are, when those sources are shown to have lied to them, just shows you they want more lies to publish based on anonymous sources. And it shows they don’t have a commitment to being truthful to their customers.
Heck, they might just be making this stuff up, or knowingly publishing lies for political propaganda purposes. I can see Glenn Thrush or Amy Chozik just publishing a false story because one of Clinton’s operatives told them to. That’s how a reporter gets access, the exclusive interview or a overpaid job in communications, PR or speech writing for a politician with a government check.
6 years ago
Reply to
MoreFreedom2
the “anonymous sources” are the guys in the next cubicle. They make this crap up, publish it, and then make Sarah Sanders answer questions about it the next day. Then they fabricate the story all over again with the headline “White House denies (fill in the blank).” It’s all quite ridiculous.
6 years ago
This is somewhat like ‘X steals from Y, then accuses Y of stealing’
6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
That is demrat marxism 101 …always accuse your opponent of doing exactly what corruption you are doing. Demrats always project their corruption if people will just listen.
6 years ago
Reply to
Afterheart
Which means….. it was the Clintons who paid prostitutes to pee on that bed the Obama’s had slept in 🙂
I have no doubt this is true, they hate the Obama’s for stealing their turn at the Presidency.
6 years ago
Reply to
Rick Green
Can only imagine how much love is left between them now that Hillary blew a winnable election and has put them both in a position where they are about to be revealed for the corrupt politicos that they both are (albeit in their own unique ways). LOL
6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
There is an old saying, “A politician is someone who will borrow $20 from you, pay back $10 of it, and then claim you are even because you both lost $10.”
6 years ago
When I think of Hitler {national socialist party } and Stalin, I start thinking about the current democrats.
6 years ago
Reply to
erich
The demrats are more like Mao, They want a cultural revolution and wouldn’t care how many Americans would have to be murdered to achieve it…..starting with 60 million American babies murdered in the womb since Roe V Wade.
6 years ago
Reply to
Afterheart
Much of the populace have drifted away from the Mao days, but Xi is trying to turn them back. The problem is that a lot of the Chinese like this new limited capitalism and may not go easily. Time will tell if Xi becomes the strongman of China by staying longer than his terms.
6 years ago
Reply to
Afterheart
65 million Trump voters is where they would start. They’ve already called us every name in the book, might as well just exterminate us.
6 years ago
Reply to
jamcar
Agreed. The NRA has 5 million members who own millions of weapons and billions of rounds of ammo. If we were going to be a problem, don’t you think the public would know it by now?
6 years ago
Leaks from the swamp is not what Americans want. We want to drain the swamp!
My fantasy is seeing Hillary behind bars and Obama’s college application and transcripts revealed. One can dream! We’re all dreamers too!
6 years ago
Reply to
craig51
Obanana’s college transcript reveals that he was accepted as a foreign exchange student. THAT is why they have been hidden.
6 years ago
Reply to
grassy knoll ✓ᴰᵉᵖˡᵒʳᵃᵇˡᵉ
That’s why he was able to use his passport (which we can not see, also) to travel to ‘Pokkie Stan’ while there was a ban on Americans travelling there.
6 years ago
Reply to
Twohawk ✓ᴰᵉᵖˡᵒʳᵃᵇˡᵉ 24/7/365
His PR firm listed him as Kenyan born right up until he started to think about a political career. It was even in writing.
Then, they just changed it one day.
Orwell warned us.
“Those that control the present, control the past. Those that control rhe past, control the future”.
If he was truly a convert to Christianity, there would be a Fatwa on him like Salmon Rushdie or Ayyan Hirsi Ali. No such appostacy order exists on him, why not? No one denies he was born a Muslim.
6 years ago
Reply to
Fromafar
You can’t spend your formative years in a madras, then your radical teen years with F. Marshall Davis, and not be a danger to American values. He espoused values, of a sort, because he was able to use them to his advantage.
6 years ago
Reply to
Twohawk ✓ᴰᵉᵖˡᵒʳᵃᵇˡᵉ 24/7/365
Obama was truly the “Manchurian Candidate”……
Not that it matters, but look at pictures of Obama and Davis on the internet.
Then look at BHO, Sr. You tell me who he “dreams of when he thinks about his Father”?….
Again, not that I care, but do the same for Chelsea Clinton and Webb Hubble (Hillary’s former law partner)….
It stood out with Schwartznegger in his affair with his housekeeper too. At least admitted it.
6 years ago
Reply to
grassy knoll ✓ᴰᵉᵖˡᵒʳᵃᵇˡᵉ
That’s been the rumor for a long time. Obama could now kill that rumor and score some points IF he were willing to release this information. At the least it’s nearly certain that Obama was an affirmative action baby who could not have been within shouting distance of Harvard Law School if he were not a preferred minority.
6 years ago
Reply to
Veritasortruth
GIVEN the editorship of the harvard law review, oblozo couldn’t write a single article setting a new precedent for incompetence. Never in the centuries old review had there been such an uneducated oaf who could not write. his so-called biographical books were ghost-written
6 years ago
Reply to
Veritasortruth
Bank this. BHO is a liar and a fraud. He weaponized parts of the American government to achieve his goals. He was and is a stain on the greatest country that God ever created.
6 years ago
Reply to
Veritasortruth
If anything were released, it would be as big a fabrication as the rest of his life.
6 years ago
Reply to
grassy knoll ✓ᴰᵉᵖˡᵒʳᵃᵇˡᵉ
I’ll bet he just skated through, too. He can lie with a straight face better than anyone I know.
6 years ago
Reply to
ee
grade inflation at harvard was documented in newsweek or time magazine back in the 1990s
6 years ago
Reply to
grassy knoll ✓ᴰᵉᵖˡᵒʳᵃᵇˡᵉ
According to Bill Ayers mother. Obama was know as a ” foreign student”.
6 years ago
Reply to
grassy knoll ✓ᴰᵉᵖˡᵒʳᵃᵇˡᵉ
“I” would like to know …. how many ENTITLEMENT $$$$’s did Obama receive to wiggle his way into and to the TOP of this Country ?!
6 years ago
Reply to
craig51
Take solace in knowing that crooked h continues to suffer–bigly! We don’t get the pleasure of seeing it, but it’s real, and unrelenting.
6 years ago
Devin has uncovered crimes. Sessions is such an feckless moron that he thinks if he prosecutes Nazicrats for actual crimes it is “political”. Meanwhile in fascist Mueller-Land, Sessions is the dunce sitting in the corner. President Hitlary, Obama and the DNC running THAT investigation. What a buffoon.
6 years ago
Get out and vote or these same democrats will ruin the country even more. Get off your lazy a..s..se s and Vote!
6 years ago
Reply to
HappyJack1
More than that — demand a provisional ballot — the ones that must be counted by hand, not by smartmatic soros voting machines. Sheriffs must also be involved in poll watching; volunteer and work the elections. Be a part of purging the dead and illegal voters from eligibility rolls. Hold local officials’ feet to the fire. No more Roy Moore disasters by complacency. Fight Alinsky with bigger, better more Alinsky tactics. It works.
6 years ago
Reply to
AnAKurian
Right!
It’s not the vote that counts,
It WHO counts the votes that count!
6 years ago
Imagine my shock…
6 years ago
Alinsky rules about projecting. Part and parcel of being a democrat
6 years ago
Just give me one POS. Just one!
6 years ago
MAGA !
6 years ago
Hillaryous! Oops, just revealed the culprit.
6 years ago
This instantaneous leaking by Schiff has been pointed out in one of President Trump’s tweets. Schiff will excuse himself from sessions of testimony and the items being discussed in committee will be in the NYT website before sundown that day.
Schiff is a magician. Every time he opens his mouth his face disappears.
6 years ago
My boss is preoccupied, but I’ll just say he’s in a meeting. Yeah, that sounds like Russian collusion, treason and a polite way of saying “(s/)he’s busy”.
These F-ing pansies are desperately trying to hang anyone for anything in order to keep Mueller and his pu-ies in power as his investigation implodes. The demoRats want him to stay in position at least til mid-terms so they can run a smear campaign from that angle as well.
6 years ago
Nunes for CA governor, give him a bigger hand to turn things around.
6 years ago
IF this FELLOW is CORRECT the names MUST be PUBLISHED !
This is HUGE if this is RIGHT!!
