As calls increase for him to recuse himself from his chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes is now being accused of yet another serious charge regarding the way he’s handled the investigation into the matter of ties between the Trump administration and Russia.
The committee was supposed to hold a second week of hearings beginning Monday, but those have now be placed on hold by Nunes in light of his bizarre, late night visit to the White House to talk to Trump himself.
But Jeremy Bash, the former chief of staff at Defense Department and CIA in the Obama administration, says there’s a more sinister reason Nunes shut down hearings this week: Because he didn’t want former acting Attorney General Sally Yates to testify. Bash told Brian Williams on MSNBC late Monday evening:
“The real story, the real issue here, is not so much about the midnight run by the chairman onto the White House grounds, it’s really that they wanted to cancel the hearing this week.
“The hearing this week was going to hear from Sally Yates, the former acting attorney general, and I’m told that she had some very interesting things to tell the committee, to tell the public about when she told the White House counsel that Mike Flynn had, in fact, been lying to the vice president. She was only going to be able to speak those things in the context of a congressional hearing, and so the White House and the chairman needed to shut her down. This was an elaborately choreographed gag order on Sally Yates.”
Since she was indeed the acting head of the Justice Department until Jeff Sessions could be confirmed by the Senate, Yates would have had access to all of the information which has been gathered by the FBI and other agencies regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election. And had she testified, Yates might have been able to shed more light on just how deeply Trump officials are implicated in the expanding conspiracy.
Nunes needs to either step aside or be replaced by House Speaker Paul Ryan. He has proven he cannot be objective and therefore cannot be trusted to lead any committee looking into the Trump-Russia connection.
Interesting—Jeremy Bash implies Sally Yates had revelations for House Intel about when she told WH that Flynn lied. Nunes nixed the hearing. pic.twitter.com/vKCd1jdoc5
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 28, 2017
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