Devin Sure Ain’t From Heaven

 Ever since Devin did his midnight ride of March 21st, 2017 to the White House to share classified material.  President Trump and some of his cronies were there late.  Not that the classified material was above the President’s clearance, but Nunes thought that it might be something useful to Donald about his unsubstantiated claim he was wiretapped in Trump Tower.  Rather than share it with the fellow members of the intelligence committee he chairs, which would be the proper protocol, he runs straight to Trump.  No fake news here.  It was caught on the security tapes from the White House.

Rather than go into the minutiae of this incident, I will just say this set the precedence that Nunes follows to this day.   He shared the information with his fellow GOP Representatives, but not with the Democratic members.  As would be the case when the House Intelligence Committee releases their report exonerating the President, without even letting the Democrats read it or have a chance to sign it.  They didn’t even finish questioning the witnesses in the investigation.  There is example after example of Nunes bending if not breaking the rules in an effort to garner favor with President Trump.  

Fast forward to this week, when Rachel Maddow releases recordings that she got from Fuse Washington, a progressive group, who taped Nunez and sold it to Maddow. They paid to attend the event, which was a private fundraiser for Cathy McMorris Rodgers at which Devin Nunes speaking.  In that speech, he admits that collusion could be a crime.  Which is exactly the opposite of what he said when parroting what Trump’s attorney Rudy Guliani said about it not being a crime?  He followed that up with a call for money to support keeping a Republican majority in the House of Representatives to protect Trump.

Somehow I don’t remember the oath of office that Representatives take saying anything about protecting the President regardless of whether he commits treason.  There is a special place in hell for a man who puts the favor of one man above his country and the well-being of 320 million Americans.

Afterthought 8/16/2018
It is hard to say anything that has not been said a dozen different ways by a dozen different reporters.  But I asked myself, “I wonder if Nunes’ actions amount to obstruction of justice?”  If this was a murder investigation, and I worked for some law enforcement agency which had access to secret information about the suspect.  If after a meeting I went to the suspect and shared that information, would I be in legal trouble?  Then if I was recorded saying, “Regardless of the fact that I am a law enforcement, my most important job is to protect this suspect.”  I cannot help but think that I would be guilty of obstruction of justice.