— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017
I believe that Rep. Devin Nunes should recuse himself from all investigations - and quit as chair of HPSCI.I reviewed the tape of Nunes after Comey's testimony. He is quite audibly shaken. https://t.co/VKmV1OMvDQ
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Circumstantial evidence suggests a potentially grave situation to which Nunes is directly tied.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017
This could not be more serious.I want to be very clear - I am working with all open sources, OSINT. Just what is available in the news is extremely worrisome.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017
(OSINT: Open Source Intelligence)Nunes' behavior during the HPSCI hearing on Monday with Comey and Rogers was extremely unusual. He tried to discredit the investigation.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Faced with revelations of espionage and the betrayal of democracy, Nunes perseverated on leaks - again.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017
Then he lied to the press.I reviewed the tape of Nunes after Comey's testimony. He is quite audibly shaken. https://t.co/VKmV1OMvDQ
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017
Link to tweet referenced:Here's the video: House Intel Chmn Nunes tells @DavidCornDC he's never heard of Carter Page or Roger Stone —via @MSNBC pic.twitter.com/y3wJeOoHUt
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 20, 2017He says, in a pressured manner "I DON'T KNOW ANY OF THOSE PEOPLE."
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017
That statement is utterly implausible given his two roles.First, his role as the Chair of an intelligence committee means he's at least seen "the dossier."
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017
Also, he was on Trump's transition team.Nunes, upon reviewing the last five months of news stories, was central to the formation of Trump's national security team.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017A bit of background on Nunes: He's not been a real power player until Trump came in. He's 43, from California's 22nd district.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Immigrant parents, grew up raising livestock, masters in agriculture. Reported net worth: $50,000. https://t.co/0ansUZ60wx
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017In 2015, he succeeded Mike Rogers (R-MI) as Chair of HPSCI.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017
Nunes *used to be* a Russia hawk. https://t.co/kCfuzysdxgNunes in 2014: concerned about Ukraine's overwhelming fear of Russian aggression and Russian propaganda measures. https://t.co/NzS56oxAY8
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Nunes stayed "neutral" during the GOP primaries, but emerged at Trump's side as a key in NatSec matters. https://t.co/iUx46NWITb
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Mike Rogers, his predecessor as Chair of HPSCI, went on to advise Jeb Bush, *who supposed paid Christopher Steele for the Dossier.*
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017When Trump's transition started, a new cast of characters emerged as powerful, and others were jettisoned. https://t.co/JnXP5l4LnL
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Republican regulars - including Mike Rogers - went over to the Transition Team, only to get shouted down. (??) https://t.co/CdkueRr391
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017And here's who made the cut to set up the NatSec team from NSC to CIA - Rep. Nunes, who came a bit out of left field. pic.twitter.com/L3MfPO7JhH
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Around November 18, 2016, the real administration is forming up, including Bannon, Flynn, Sessions, and Pompeo. https://t.co/QY7UgAshMT
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Nunes himself picks Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) as DIRCIA and says there was no need for much vetting: https://t.co/D9iNrqFuFT pic.twitter.com/TMRvRDVcGY
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017
(DIRCIA:Director CIA)DC is rocked by the extreme administration picks. Nunes is declared to be a new powerplayer in Congress. https://t.co/yujLuYCf2P
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017A couple quotes from this story emerge, one about all the great new friends Nunes has in Congress, phone ringing, and another about Flynn.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Nunes apparently started getting close with Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn - undeclared agent of foreign governments - back in MARCH 2016. pic.twitter.com/tiE1GPwip0
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Let's review Nunes' role: Meets Flynn in March, stays neutral, is hand picking intel agency directors from Trump Tower by November.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017
vv this tweet is important going forward vvPaul Manafort lives in Trump Tower.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017
Sergei Kislyak, Russian Ambassador meets Flynn and Kushner at Trump Tower.
Nunes is there regularly.Carter Page - Devin Nunes claims not to have known who he was - claims to have spent lots of time at Trump Tower. https://t.co/q5GmcxVHjk
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Nunes now oversees intelligence for the House of Representatives and really wants to get to the bottom of these damn leaks.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017
So.Everything before now is supported by major media stories. (Imagine what FBI has.)
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017
Next, my assessment of the implications.Nunes cannot faithfully investigate a matter in which he in directly involved, and may possibly be a suspect, so he must recuse.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017For lying to the press and attempting to distract from Dir. Comey's bombshell testimony, he should leave the committee for good measure.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017I would like to see the FBI whether Rep. Nunes' intention was to collude with the alleged paid agents of Russia, Flynn and Manafort.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017It seems from just these press reports, Nunes took a position where he could possibly keep the IC from investigating what's in the Dossier.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017What's in the Dossier is THE SALE OF US FOREIGN POLICY FOR CASH TO VLADIMIR PUTIN and the most serious betrayal in our national history.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017If all of these people acted in concert, they conspired to hijack the American intelligence community: HPSCI, DNI, DOJ, NSC, and more.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Remember the hot minute when the executive order came down to remove the DNI from the NSC and put Steve Bannon on it? pic.twitter.com/ZV9YISYd0r
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Flynn was gone within two weeks, but it was apparently his intention to route all US intelligence through his desk and to the president.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Trump started calling the CIA "Nazis" and it was Nunes - undisturbed by this! - who went to bat for Trump. https://t.co/zVh8K4Xaey
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017This is when Nunes - charged with guiding the IC to keep Americans safe - starts in with the "leaks" narrative as the problem.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017The situation has gotten more serious with each passing day, and faced with an independent FBI investigation, only cares about leaks.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017If the Trump confederates are shown to have conspired to sell off our national security, then Nunes was in on it or covered their tracks.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Nunes may have been shell shocked because he thought Comey was on board, and otherwise they had all the bases covered.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017DOJ wouldn't prosecute. They were getting rid of DNI. CIA is on the team. Flynn would have been NSA (oops.) And Clapper said no evidence!
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017But the U.S. Intelligence Community apparently did not shirk its duties in the same manner as Representative Devin Nunes.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Flynn has been revealed and is strangely silent. Sessions recused and is strangely silent.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017
Perhaps there is a reason for that.There is much I want to know: when did Nunes decide to be friendly with Russia and to support NatSec professionals who were already?
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Did he also have a hand in suggesting Tillerson, or was that Sessions, or someone else? Did he not see that as unusual?
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017Why did Nunes think it unnecessary to properly vet an incoming NSA or DIRCIA as part of a Transition Team? Why didn't Pence?
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017How many times did Nunes run across Trump Tower resident Paul Manafort, and did they ever converse? If so, on what subjects?
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017That's an investigation, and it involves counterintelligence, which is part of Nunes' oversight.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017
He cannot possibly be part of it.In the last few days, suddenly Trump and Nunes don't know anyone involved. Tillerson says he never met POTUS before becoming SecState.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017This is the gravest political scandal in all of American history. It involves foreign agents - but potentially domestic conspirators.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017DIRFBI Comey must help America get to the bottom of this and see how far the rot goes.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 22, 2017
Jesus Christ, it's only Wednesday.
Wall Street Journal Blasts The "Fake President": He Clings To His Lies Like A Drunk To An Empty Gin Bottle - https://t.co/Z2IvEcwKhb pic.twitter.com/xMDoasefZ6
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) March 22, 2017
The White House’s former top national security official did not sign an ethics pledge ostensibly required of all Trump administration appointees barring them from ethically questionable lobbying activities, The Daily Beast has learned.
A spokesman for former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn confirmed on Tuesday that Flynn did not sign the pledge during his brief tenure.
The pledge, imposed by executive order a week after President Donald Trump took office, bars all federal appointees from lobbying their former colleagues for five years after leaving the administration and bans them from lobbying on behalf of foreign governments for life.
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From the Wall Street Journal OP ED PAGE!!!Wall Street Journal Blasts The "Fake President": He Clings To His Lies Like A Drunk To An Empty Gin Bottle - https://t.co/Z2IvEcwKhb pic.twitter.com/xMDoasefZ6
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) March 22, 2017
Biden joins @HouseDemocrats & @SenSchumer to rally against reckless GOP #ACA repeal 💪🼠pic.twitter.com/R00CNEduRm
— Meredith Kelly (@meredithk27) March 22, 2017
Dershowitz described having dinner at Trump’s private club where no policy is supposed to be discussed, “Then we schmoozed about a range of issues, the travel ban, the Supreme Court. Then he went and had dinner, and then he came back at the end of dinner just to say goodbye, and then he hung out again for about another ten or fifteen minutes schmoozing about a range of issues talking about the media talking about the leaks of information coming out about classified material.â€
According to Dershowitz, the president took him aside and had a private conversation about a foreign issue. Dershowitz said, “We really talked about substantive issues of his choosing.â€
What Dershowitz described contradicts a written statement from White House that Trump, “has not and will not be discussing policy with club members.â€
here are reports of shots being fired outside the Houses of Parliament and the Palace of Westminster is reportedly in lockdown.
Politicians and journalists have tweeted about hearing loud crashes outside the buildings,
Witnesses also said they saw people being treated for injuries.
Witnesses have reported seeing a man with a knife within the palace grounds.
A police officer has also told the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg that someone has been shot outside Portcullis House.
Shots fired outside Parliament. Loud explosion then shooting. Man lying shot outside gates to Parliament. Gun shots outside, Frightening.
— Christopher Hope (@christopherhope) March 22, 2017
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But - I thought Trump was going to make the trains run on time?
"Of course this describes a general standard, not a formula. But whatever else can be said about it, this standard is markedly more demanding than the “merely more than de minimis†test applied by the Tenth Circuit. It cannot be the case that the Act typically aims for grade-level advancement for children with disabilities who can be educated in the regular classroom, but is satisfied with barely more than de minimis progress for those who cannot.
When all is said and done, a student offered an educational program providing “merely more than de minimis†progress from year to year can hardly be said to have been offered an education at all. For children with disabilities, receiving instruction that aims so low would be tantamount to “sitting idly . . . awaiting the time when they were old enough to ‘drop out.’†Rowley, 458 U. S., at 179 (some internal quotation marks omitted). The IDEA demands more. It requires an educational program reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child’s circumstances."
- CJ John Roberts, opinion of the Court, Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District
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So much shadiness!
Today, Chairman Nunes shared information with WH still withheld from our committee. He cannot conduct a credible investigation this way. pic.twitter.com/wwrp7H7JWC
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) March 22, 2017