Tibits everywhere

I miss some.

Who?

I had missed that connection. I did have a post back in August about Ezra Cohen-Watnick when he was fired from his job as the senior intelligence director for the White House’s National Security Council. This was well after Flynn had been dumped, and I didn't realize Cohen-Watnick had any connection to Flynn. 

Just another piece of wire connecting Nunes to the Trump cabal. (That wire, famously includes Nunes being provided intel reports by White House officials back in March.)

And now, I know the following, as well:

From November, 2017:

Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, attended a breakfast meeting in January that Michael Flynn, then the incoming national security adviser, and Mevlut Cavusoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, also attended.

The breakfast event, held on Wednesday, January 18, was closed to the press, and it is still unclear what exactly was discussed.

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"Chairman Nunes was a speaker at that event, but it was a large breakfast event, not a small, private meeting as described in that article," the spokesman, Jack Langer, told the fact-checking website Snopes.

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Nunes' attendance at the event is newly relevant amid revelations that the special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating a meeting that another congressman, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, took with Flynn in September 2016. Flynn had begun lobbying on behalf of Turkish government interests one month earlier.

  Business Insider

No wonder Nunes is busy obstructing justice. He's in the shit up to his eyeballs.

Nunes, meanwhile, has been at the center of a series of controversies since the House Intelligence Committee began investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 US election.

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In June, Nunes angered the Democrats when he demanded more details from the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency about why Obama administration officials requested the unmasking of Trump associates last year. He also threatened in September to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Chris Wray in contempt of Congress if they did not respond to a subpoena for documents relating to the Steele dossier.

From March 2017:

The day after Donald Trump fired him, Michael Flynn had no friends in Washington but one: Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House intelligence committee.

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The now ex-national security adviser was “a soldier, not a politician”, Nunes said following Flynn’s downfall.

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[I]f Flynn had made any mistake, Nunes suggested, it was in being too pure for politics.

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Nunes’s affinity for Flynn has become an underappreciated subplot of a scandal that has now consumed the congressman’s own political fortunes. Nunes, the chairman of the House intelligence committee investigating Trump’s alleged ties to Russia – an allegation in which Flynn plays a substantial role – is now under fire for what his Democratic colleagues charge is collusion with the White House to obstruct the inquiry.

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Since the inquiry began, Nunes has steered it away from the central question of Trump associates’ ties to Russia and toward the ancillary question of potential leaks of classified information against Trump’s team – the focus that Trump himself desires. Central to Nunes’s maneuver has been an emphasis on what he considers an injustice done to Flynn: the exposure of his contacts with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak.

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“I think the concern that the Trump administration has is, you know, were they actually using surveillance activities to know what they were up to, because we know that that happened with General Flynn. We know that his name was unmasked and we know that it was leaked out to the press.”

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“There’s been one crime that has been committed, and that is the leaking of someone’s name,” Nunes told reporters.

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Toward the end of his opening statement at the 20 March hearing, Nunes encouraged “anyone who has information about these topics to come forward and speak to the House intelligence committee”.

The next evening, according to the New York Times, Nunes received a call from his unidentified source, leading him to the White House, where he reviewed surveillance-relevant information compiled by Cohen-Watnick, Flynn’s former NSC and DIA aide. The next day, he revealed it in public, implying that he was alerting the White House to its existence.

  Guardian

The White House from which he got it in the first place.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.