House intel head: 'No evidence' of Trump campaign contact with Russia

How long must this fake news continue? How many different ways can this be said? Where is the evidence for the people who claim they did talk during the election? Do we always open investigations without a shred of evidence to support a theory?

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee on Monday rejected reports that members of President Trump’s campaign team had regular contact with Russian officials.

“There is no evidence that I’ve been presented [by the intelligence community] of regular contact with anybody in the Trump campaign,” Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told reporters.

“The way it sounds like to me is, it’s been looked into and there’s no evidence of anything there.”

Nunes's committee is investigating Russian efforts to influence U.S. presidential election, including any links between campaign officials and Moscow.

The scope of the review has been under fierce scrutiny following Trump's dismissal of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who misled Vice President Pence about the subject of a pre-inauguration call with the Russian ambassador, which included talk of sanctions against the country.

The committee has settled on the scope of its investigation, Nunes said Monday, but has not received all of the evidence it expects from U.S. intelligence agencies. He described his inquiries to those agencies regarding Trump’s campaign associates as “initial.”

“As of right now, I don’t have any evidence of any phone calls. It doesn’t mean they don’t exist, but I don’t have that,” he reiterated. “What I’ve been told, by many folks, is that there’s nothing there — but we’re absolutely looking into it.”

Nunes also dismissed calls from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and others for Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuse himself from any FBI investigation into Trump campaign ties to Russia.

“At this point, what are we going to appoint a special prosecutor to do, exactly? Chase stories of American citizens that end up in newspaper articles?” he said, adding that if there was any evidence of serious crime, the committee would “consider” the need for an independent prosecutor.

Rather than any links between the White House and Russia, Nunes insisted, the only “serious crime” of which the committee had any evidence is a myriad of media leaks, apparently from the intelligence community.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-...vidence-of-trump-campaign-contact-with-russia

 

And the mother of all popcorn farts is revealed. Winning

 

Leaks about what? If there is nothing to the claims, what was leaking?

 

Welcome to the driver's seat, Trump FanBoys.

The King of the Birthers does not get to whine about "fake news" or about "how long the investigation goes," or, "how many times he has to say something...".
Obama had to put up with that birther crap for 8 years, and now Trump people are crying like little children over 4 weeks of questions.

Just not going to feel sorry for you - or him.

 

Time for the left to flock to the next meme.

 

Nah. We'll stick to this one until a real investigation is done not some dismissal by an obvious partisan hack.

 

No, that is Fake News . What is the truth us that there is no evidence uncovered yet. Sounds like a partisan statement by Nunnes.

 

I nearly sharted when I read that!

(couldn't rep....but it's coming!)

 

This narrative will continue for eight years, better get used to it.

 

Any leaker in the intelligence community is cause for concern. A rouge Trump hater could do serious harm to national security in an attempt to hurt Trump. This or these leakers need ferreted out and should be keel hauled.

 

Crying? I've been laughing non-stop since Nov 8th.

 

The funny thing is, if you drill down into all of these articles about Trump campaign snuggling up to Russia, they all admit that there's no evidence. But this story isn't about evidence, it's about SCREEEEEEEEE!

 

And Democrats can't figure out why it's called fake news. Not a shred of evidence yet turn on any main stream media outlet and all you hear is Russia Russia Russia. Democrats are so phony .

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Hey , me too. Have a great day sir.

 

You do know a Committee is more then one person dont you? Dont you?

 

ALL partizan hacks until they come to the conclusions we desire!

 

I wonder at what point the GOP decides to cut its losses before the scandal-ridden Trump Administration puts them in full panic mode for upcoming elections.

The partisan hack Nunes is fortunate because he is locked into a heavily Republican district. However, not all Republicans share his sizeable buffer.

Daryl Issa, for instance, only won his election by 1624 votes and he's already rolling over:

Republican Congressman calls for independent prosecutor to investigate Donald Trump

And he's not the only one looking over his shoulder.

I say hold your ground GOP. Keep hanging Trump's muck until it sinks your ship.

 

There are anti-trump operatives inside the NSA generating false intelligence reports, especially about Russia.
Somebody needs to clean house inside the intel agencies..

 

Do we still have grand juries in America?

“In the spectrum of crimes involving the leaking of classified information, publicly revealing the contents of SIGINT — signals intelligence — is one of the most serious felonies. Journalists (and all other nongovernmental citizens) can be prosecuted under federal law for disclosing classified information(*)only under the narrowest circumstances; reflecting how serious SIGINT is considered to be, one of those circumstances includes leaking the contents of intercepted communications, as defined this way by 18 § 798 of the U.S. Code:

Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates … or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes … any classified information … obtained by the processes of communication intelligence from the communications of any foreign government … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”, THE INTERCEPT, The Leakers Who Exposed Gen. Flynn’s Lie Committed Serious — and Wholly Justified — Felonies, By, Glenn Greenwald, February 14 2017.

https://theintercept.com/2017/02/14...mitted-serious-and-wholly-justified-felonies/

 

Isn't the FBI still investigating this case.

 

Which part of the Kremlin are you posting from today?

 

No. The FBI has recordings of the calls, as well as transcripts of the calls. They found no wrong doing.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...of-flynns-calls-dont-show-criminal-wrongdoing

 

There can be only one reply to that:

 

McCarthy called. He wants his tactics back.

 

Yes but only one person made this declaration

Within hours, Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, held a dueling press conference to both rebuke Nunes’s characterization of the investigation. He also criticized his Republican counterpart for disclosing information on the investigation that only just began.

“When you begin an investigation, you don’t begin by stating what you believe to be the conclusion,” Schiff said.

“I don’t think that anybody should prejudge at this point whether there were contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia, either directly or indirectly, through cutouts with business-people or any other way.”

“We as an Intelligence Committee doing an investigation don’t know,” he added. “We don’t know the answer.”

 

Unless you have seen the transcripts or heard the conversations you have "no evidence" - of anything.

Congressional hearings are theater for partisan noisemakers. Grand juries need to start investigating these things - ASAP.