Nunes: FBI Dir. Christopher Wray’s Lies About the FISA Abuse Memo Hurt the GOP in 2018 Midterms
Debra Heine
- December 18th, 2019
In a highly enlightening podcast with The Washington Examiner’s Byron York Wednesday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) took aim at FBI Director Christopher Wray, saying he has some explaining to do after smearing House Republicans over their FISA Abuse memo in early 2018.
The California Republican told York that he faced a lot of hurdles in early 2018 when he was trying to get the truth out about the FBI’s abuse of its surveillance power and that Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein “said some pretty hard, nasty things†about him.
Since then, of course, the Inspector General’s report on the FBI and DOJ’s Russia collusion investigations has not only corroborated the Nunes memo, it described further abuses, including the altering of a document to hide exculpatory information about former Trump adviser Carter Page.
Nunes said that the issue needs to be revisited because their lies did serious damage to the GOP and possibly led to their loss of the House in November of 2018.
In January of 2018, the FBI issued an “extraordinary public statement†condemning Republicans for trying to release their classified memo alleging surveillance abuses at the Department of Justice. According to the Hill’s reporting at the time, the statement “placed the bureau at odds†not only with Nunes—then the House Intelligence Committee Chairman—but also with President Trump himself, who was pushing for the document to be released.
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