Devin Nunes Supports Secret Surveillance of Americans, Finds Himself Under Surveillance

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Nunes attacked those who wanted to restrain NSA’s snooping. Clearly he never considered whether his call records would be exposed.

 

The call records are coming home to roost for Rep. Devin Nunes (R–Calif.).

Before he became a stalwart defender of President Donald Trump, Nunes consistently fought any and all efforts to restrain the authority of the National Security Agency (NSA) to secretly, warrantlessly collect Americans' call records and metadata. He wasn't quiet about this support for domestic surveillance. When Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan (then a Republican, now an independent) tried to restrain the feds' ability to access American call records, Nunes didn't just vote against Amash's legislation; he attacked Amash loudly and publicly. In 2014, one of Amash's efforts prompted Nunes to call the congressman "Al Qaeda's best friend in the Congress." Nunes even donated $5,000 to Amash's primary opponent.

Now this surveillance apparatus that Nunes has long supported has happily provided his political opponents with information that could destroy his career. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (which Nunes used to chair, and where he is now the ranking minority member) just published its impeachment report. It shows calls between Nunes and Rudy Giuliani in 2016, as Giuliani was making the media rounds arguing that Ukrainian officials colluded to help Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. This information will most certainly be used to argue that Nunes is not just a defender of Trump but also an active participant in Giuliani's Ukrainian push.

 

Nunes isn't happy about that. Last night he tweeted a Washington Examiner piece in which Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R–La.) accuses Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D–Calif.) of "spying" on Nunes and asks, "Are there other members of Congress that he is spying on, and what justification does he have? He needs to be held accountable and explain what he's doing, going after journalists, going after members of Congress, instead of doing his job."

But there's no reason to assume that Schiff was specifically targeting Nunes, and it's unlikely that any laws were broken here. Nunes' name and calls came up in the metadata of the impeachment's investigation targets. What is happening to the California congressman right now is an easily foreseeable consequences of the surveillance system Nunes supports.

Scalise should know full well how Schiff is getting this information. He, like Nunes, has supported expanding the NSA's authority to snoop on Americans. Whenever attempts to expand this power has been brought up for a vote, Scalise has been happy to vote yes. In 2018, as House whip, Scalise circulated an email to GOP members with text from Nunes encouraging them to vote against an Amash attempt to provide stronger privacy protections for Americans.

Maybe next time Amash or somebody else in Congress brings forward a bill protecting Americans from secret unwarranted data collection, Nunes and Scalise might consider supporting it.

https://reason.com/2019/12/05/devin-nunes-secret-surveillance/

[Jimmy Snacks]

Hahaha...hey @Zambroski the chickens are coming home to roost for Nunes!!!!  

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18 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Hahaha...hey @Zambroski the chickens are coming home to roost for Nunes!!!!  

Ha ha ha ha ha 

[Jimmy Snacks]

14 minutes ago, jtssrx said:

Ha ha ha ha ha 

Psycho Sid Vicious!!!!!

[Zambroski]

1 hour ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Hahaha...hey @Zambroski the chickens are coming home to roost for Nunes!!!!  

Well, I haven’t looked too much into it but it spindle like this is more illegal fuckery on the Dem side.  How are these numbers showing up on Schitt’s desk?

Hmmmm....

[Jimmy Snacks]

4 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

Well, I haven’t looked too much into it but it spindle like this is more illegal fuckery on the Dem side.  How are these numbers showing up on Schitt’s desk?

Hmmmm....

Just read the article Cheech.

[SSFB]

14 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

Well, I haven’t looked too much into it but it spindle like this is more illegal fuckery on the Dem side.  How are these numbers showing up on Schitt’s desk?

Hmmmm....

A byproduct of protecting freedoms!!!!!!!!!!!11

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Some of Nunes' phone calls were unearthed as part of the impeachment inquiry, because Nunes was on the phone with a lot of folks suspected of doing weird shit involving Ukraine and the Bidens. Here's the relevant part of the Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report:

Phone records obtained by the Committees show frequent communication between key players during this phase of the scheme. Between April 1 and April 7, [Lev] Parnas exchanged approximately 16 calls with [Rudy] Giuliani (longest duration approximately seven minutes) and approximately 10 calls with [John] Solomon (longest duration approximately nine minutes).

Solomon authored several op-eds suggesting that when Joe Biden was vice president, he tried to get Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired in order to protect his son, Hunter Biden.

Over the course of the four days following the April 7 article, phone records show contacts between Mr. Giuliani, Mr. Parnas, Representative Devin Nunes, and Mr. Solomon. Specifically, Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Parnas were in contact with one another, as well as with Mr. Solomon. Phone records also show contacts on April 10 between Mr. Giuliani and Rep. Nunes, consisting of three short calls in rapid succession, followed by a text message, and ending with a nearly three minute call. Later that same day, Mr. Parnas and Mr. Solomon had a four minute, 39 second call.

No one went specifically looking for Nunes' phone records, and certainly not in the willy-nilly witch-hunt manner that Paul implies. But there he is, on the calls with the folks at the center of impeachment inquiry conduct.

Moreover, the phone records were requested and reviewed by the bipartisan House Intelligence Committee, not some rogue gang of surveillance-happy Democrats. And they were obtained (likely via subpoena) directly from AT&T, not via some secret federal fishing expedition blessed by the FISA court.

https://reason.com/2019/12/05/pelosi-moves-forward-with-impeachment-rand-paul-wrong-on-devin-nunes-phones-records/

[Zambroski]

24 minutes ago, SSFB said:

A byproduct of protecting freedoms!!!!!!!!!!!11

https://reason.com/2019/12/05/pelosi-moves-forward-with-impeachment-rand-paul-wrong-on-devin-nunes-phones-records/

All sounds perfectly boring and deceptive.

Meh...maybe if I’m bored enough tomorrow to look at it.  I think Schitt is up to no good here and trying to save face.  That pile of shot needs to go to prison.  But he won’t.  None of them will.  Maybe a good old fashioned bullet in his ear.