Devin Nunes has quickly made a name for himself and his no-nonsense approach to what’s going on in Capitol Hill and this time he’s prepping WE THE PEOPLE, saying that the media, as well as the Democrats, may be “frightened” by intel in the Trump-Russia documents that Republicans are asking President Trump to declassify.
During a speaking event this past week Nunes stated that Donald Trump is close to committing to the declassifying request regarding portions of the FISA warrant that was granted against Carter page, former Trump campaign advisor.
If you’ll recall, a heavily redacted version of four of the warrants were released, ranging from October 2016 all the way to June 2017. And one thing we learned from that is that the FBI relied on the Steele dossier just to obtain those warrants and since then, thanks to some Strzok text, we know that the possibility exists that the entire thing was indeed orchestrated.
As reported by The Daily Caller:
“In the course of the Committee’s investigation, we have uncovered irregularities with the process by which DOJ and FBI obtained information and sought and renewed three times a warrant pursuant to FISA on U.S citizen Carter Page,” the letter reads.
Nunes, a close ally of Trump’s, noted that Democrats and media pundits claimed after the initial release of the FISAs that “the really bad stuff about the Trump campaign was buried in the redactions.”
“And I said, you know what, you might be right. We should declassify the whole thing,” Nunes said Thursday, according to The Washington Free Beacon.
Nunes asserted that Trump’s critics have backed away from that argument out of fear that the rest of the FISA application will be damaging to the FBI and the narrative that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government.
“And you know why? Because I think they’re going to be frightened by what you see,” Nunes said of Democrats and the press.
Nunes’ comments echo remarks he made in an interview on Fox News on July 29.
“We are quite confident that once the American people see these 20 pages, at least for those that will get real reporting on this issue, they will be shocked by what’s in that FISA application,” Nunes told Fox’s Maria Bartiromo.