There’s a Brutal New Campaign Ad Targeting Devin Nunes and His Memo
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) with Rep. Peter King (R-NY) and Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on Capitol Hill in Washington in October 2017.Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update (1/2/2018): Citing a senior campaign aid, the Atlantic‘s Natasha Bertrand reported that Nunes’ Democratic opponent, Andrew Janz,…
The Nunes Memo Proves One Thing, And It’s The Opposite Of What It Tries To Prove
Mother Jones; J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After days of much frothing, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and his fellow Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee—with an assist from President Donald Trump—finally on Friday released the memo: a document cooked up by the panel’s Republican staff that claims the infamous…
We Have Known For Weeks What Was In the Nunes Memo
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’m not going to flood the zone on the Nunes memo. Others can do that. But I want to highlight a point I made in the previous post: we’ve known what was in the memo for weeks. There have been…
It’s Mission Accomplished for the Nunes Memo
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I have read the entire Nunes memo. It took two minutes. There is nothing there that hasn’t already been leaked. It basically claims that the FBI relied on the Steele dossier in its FISA application for a wiretap on Carter Page, but didn’t reveal to…
Democrats Say Republicans Who Released the Memo Are Complicit in Obstruction of Justice
The Nunes memo released Friday.Nunes memo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democrats responded to the release of the controversial Devin Nunes memo Friday with a strong allegation of their own: that the Republicans who allowed the memo’s publication are complicit in an attempt to obstruct justice. “House Republicans are now…
Here’s What Happens When Trump Policy Comes to Trump Country
Organizers Marilyn Torres and Marbella Chavez celebrate after a private prison company withdrew its proposal for an immigration detention center in Elkhart County.Mother Jones Illustration/Michael Caterina/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Elkhart County, Indiana, is proud of its recreational vehicles. The county—90 percent white, 41 percent factory workers, and located…