Open in TheBrain

whistleblower ukraine

120 belated?<div>
</div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><div class="mag-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 class="magcat-titlte entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/devin-nunes-threatens-criminal-charges-against-inspector-general-over-whistleblower-complaint/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">&nbsp;Nunes threatens criminal charges against inspector general over whistleblower complaint</font></a></h3><div class="grid-post-box-meta mag-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/skypalma/" title="Posts by Sky Palma" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Sky Palma</a>&nbsp;/&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/raw-story/" title="Posts by Raw Story" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Raw Story</a></font></span></div></div><div class="mag-excerpt entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to&nbsp;an exclusive report from Fox News, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is threatening to take action against Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson over his handling of the whistleblower’s complaint,…</font></p></div></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/the-republican-partys-delusional-crusade-against-the-whistleblower-makes-no-sense/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/the-republican-partys-delusional-crusade-against-the-whistleblower-makes-no-sense/</a>
</font></div><div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p class="yiv5456793000headline3" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click1.e.alternet.org/eshphvqjqkdfdhwwftyqqfqwwtfwjbzcpkqdyrvyqtdy_qdhwmdhdtmghnpvvhdv.html?a=&b=3638&c=21989&d=2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Lindsey Graham faces revolt from Republican colleagues over plan to investigate whistleblower: WaPo reporter</font></a></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; font-style: italic; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some Republican lawmakers are balking at a plan by Sen.…</font></p></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=&nbsp;</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">trumpista?!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/10/29/former-trump-aide-who-now-works-for-devin-nunes-reportedly-leaked-ukraine-whistleblowers-name/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.salon.com/2019/10/29/former-trump-aide-who-now-works-for-devin-nunes-reportedly-leaked-ukraine-whistleblowers-name/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">f</font><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">ormer Trump aide who now works for Devin Nunes reportedly leaked Ukraine whistleblower’s name</span></b></div><section class="title-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.42;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Derek Harvey, a former Trump adviser who now works for Nunes, outed the whistleblower who reported Trump's call</font></h2></section><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font><section class="writer-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2em; padding: 0px 11px 0px 0px;"><h5 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5rem;"><a href="https://www.salon.com/writer/igor-derysh" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-weight: normal;" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">IGOR DERYSH</font></a></h5><h6 style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; padding-bottom: 0.5rem; margin: 0px;"><font style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">OCTOBER 29, 2019&nbsp;</font></h6></section><article style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.9em;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Atop aide to Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., leaked documents identifying the Ukraine whistleblower’s name in an attempt to out him,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/devin-nunes-aide-is-leaking-the-ukraine-whistleblowers-name-sources-say?ref=scroll" target="
blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Daily Beast</u></a>&nbsp;has reported.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Derek Harvey, a former adviser to President Trump who now works for Nunes on the House Intelligence Committee, handed notes to House Republicans identifying the whistleblower’s name</b>&nbsp;ahead of closed-door depositions in the Trump impeachment inquiry in hopes of getting the name in the record of the proceedings, which Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff vowed to release, sources told The Daily Beast.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">The allegation follows a Saturday&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/in-impeachment-inquiry-republican-lawmakers-ask-questions-about-whistleblower-loyalty-to-trump-and-conspiracy-theories/2019/10/26/bf733450-f760-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Washington Post report</u></a>&nbsp;that Republican lawmakers and aides have “repeatedly” used the whistleblower’s purported name during the secret depositions. The Post reported that Harvey was “passing notes the entire time” one former Trump official was being questioned, suggesting that he was feeding Republicans questions.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mark Zaid, an attorney for the whistleblower, warned that exposing his client’s identity would put him and his family at risk.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Exposing the identity of the whistleblower and attacking our client would do nothing to undercut the validity of the complaint’s allegations,” Zaid told The Daily Beast. “What it would do, however, is put that individual and their family at risk of harm. Perhaps more important, it would deter future whistleblowers from coming forward in subsequent administrations, Democratic or Republican.”</font></p><div id="salon_auto_video" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><div data-video-id="salon-830043" data-egami-player="yes" data-no-player-no-ad="hide" id="salon_instream_1" class=" propervideo-main_player_container" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: -webkit-center; background-size: 100%; width: 726.656px; overflow: hidden; height: 0.1px;"><div id="propervideo-middle_player" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 408.734px; margin: auto; width: 726.656px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 408.734px; position: relative; display: flex !important;"><img id="propervideo-back_image" src="https://mediaproxy.propervideo.io/width/600/https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/800565979_1280x720.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; height: 408.734px; margin: auto; width: 726.656px; position: absolute; top: 0px;" /><div id="propervideo-overlay_container" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 726.656px; height: 408.734px;"><div id="propervideo-vid_body" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 408.734px;"><div id="propervideo-video_outer_box" class="propervideo-middle_video propervideo-video_outer_box_main" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 408.734px;"><div id="propervideo-video_box" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 408.734px;"><div id="propervideo-video" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: opacity 0.4s ease-in-out 0s; height: 408.734px; position: relative;"><span id="propervideo-volume-group" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute; bottom: 5px; right: 4px; z-index: 5; width: 33px; line-height: normal;"><button id="propervideo-mute_button" style="cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: initial; border-style: none; border-color: initial; height: 21px; width: 25px; padding: 0px;"><svg class="pv_icon pv_volume_mute_icon" role="img" viewbox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /></button><input id="propervideo-volume_bar" type="range" min="0" max="1" step="0.1" value="1" style="visibility: hidden; opacity: 0; transition: visibility 0.5s ease 0s, opacity 0.5s linear 0s; width: 75px; vertical-align: middle; -webkit-appearance: none; cursor: pointer; background: white; height: 4px; align-self: center; transform: rotate(-90deg); position: absolute; bottom: 72px; right: -21px;" /></span><div class="propervideo-cancel_float" id="propervideo-close_bottom_player" style="box-sizing: initial; width: 40px; position: absolute; right: 0px; top: 0px; cursor: pointer; z-index: 0; opacity: 0; transition: opacity 400ms ease-in-out 0s;"><svg id="propervideo-svg-close-box" class="pv_icon pv_times_icon" role="img" viewbox="0 0 320 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><video id="propervideo-content_video" playsinline="" muted="" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 726.656px; height: 408.734px; background: black; vertical-align: bottom;" width="640" height="360" /></font><div id="propervideo-controls" style="box-sizing: border-box; bottom: -1px; height: 42px; width: 726.656px; position: absolute; z-index: 4; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); opacity: 0; transition: opacity 0.5s ease-in-out 0s;"><div class="top-progress-bar" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><input id="propervideo-progress_bar" type="range" value="0" style="display: block; width: 726.656px; height: 5px; -webkit-appearance: none; cursor: pointer; background: rgb(222, 222, 222); overflow: hidden;" /></div><div class="propervideo-bottom-controls" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 42px; position: absolute; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 726.656px; justify-content: space-between;"><div class="propervideo-left-group" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left; height: 32px; display: flex;"><button id="propervideo-play_button" style="cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-position: center center; background-size: 13px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: initial; border-style: none; border-color: initial; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 1.5vh; height: 32px;"><svg class="pv_icon pv_play_icon" role="img" viewbox="0 0 448 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /></button><span id="propervideo-time" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.8; align-self: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="propervideo-time_progress_start" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 3px;">00:00</span>/<span id="propervideo-time_progress_finish" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 3px;">00:00</span></font></span></div><span id="propervideo-right-group" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; align-items: center; padding-right: 35px;"><button id="propervideo-video_quality" class="propervideo-video-quality" style="cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: initial; border-style: none; border-color: initial; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px; margin-left: 1vh;"><svg class="pv_icon pv_cog_icon" role="img" viewbox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /></button><ul id="propervideo-quality-box" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; background: rgba(35, 35, 35, 0.72); position: absolute; bottom: 52px; right: 7px; list-style: none; padding: 0px; opacity: 0; visibility: hidden; width: 138px; text-align: left;"><li id="quality_1080" class="propervideo-quality-item" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 10px; opacity: 0.7; padding-left: 1em; height: 30px; display: flex; align-items: center;">
</li><li id="quality_720" class="propervideo-quality-item" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 10px; opacity: 0.7; padding-left: 1em; height: 30px; display: flex; align-items: center;">
</li><li id="quality_540" class="propervideo-quality-item propervideo-selected" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 10px; opacity: 1; padding-left: 1em; height: 30px; display: flex; align-items: center; background: rgb(117, 117, 117);">
</li><li id="quality_360" class="propervideo-quality-item" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 10px; opacity: 0.7; padding-left: 1em; height: 30px; display: flex; align-items: center;">
</li><li id="quality_240" class="propervideo-quality-item" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 10px; opacity: 0.7; padding-left: 1em; height: 30px; display: flex; align-items: center;">
</li></ul><button id="propervideo-replay_button" class="replay" style="cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: initial; border-style: none; border-color: initial; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px; margin-left: 1vh; font-weight: bold;"><svg class="pv_icon pv_restart_icon" role="img" viewbox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /></button><button id="propervideo-fullscreen_button" class="fullscreen" style="cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: initial; border-style: none; border-color: initial; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 1vh; display: flex;"><svg class="pv_icon pv_expand_icon" role="img" viewbox="0 0 448 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /></button></span></div></div><div id="propervideo-video_overlay_link" class="propervideo-video-launch-link propervideo-video-overlay-link font-m bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0; height: 408.734px; position: absolute; background-color: black; background-position: center center; background-size: 14%; background-repeat: no-repeat; width: 726.656px; z-index: 0; cursor: pointer; transition: opacity 0.5s ease-in-out 0s; top: 0px; background-image: url(" https="https" propervideo.io="propervideo.io" images="images" expand-icon2.png="expand-icon2.png"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Far-right news outlets like OANN and the Gateway Pundit have identified an official they claim to be the whistleblower.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The whistleblower’s account has long since been&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/10/29/white-house-staffer-twice-raised-concerns-after-listening-to-trumps-ukraine-call-testimony-reveals/" target="
blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">corroborated by witnesses from Trump’s administration</u></a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Harvey has also spread a false story claiming that the whistleblower contacted a Democratic staffer on the Intelligence Committee before submitting his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/09/27/7-of-the-most-alarming-claims-in-the-whistleblower-complaint-against-president-trump_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">complaint</u></a>&nbsp;about Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky</b>&nbsp;and the subsequent cover-up. Harvey was apparently attempting to “discredit” the whistleblower as a partisan, a source told The Daily Beast.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democrats grew so “alarmed” at Republican lawmakers’ “eagerness” to go after the Democratic staffer in question that they reached out to Republican leaders about the matter.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We are aware of these unsupported and false attacks on a respected member of our staff,” a senior Intelligence Committee official told The Daily Beast. “It is completely inappropriate, and we have previously urged the Republican leadership to address this situation.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">This isn’t the first time Harvey has passed similar information to conservatives. Harvey compiled a set of documents that contained a list of State Department officials he suspected of being disloyal to Trump,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/brian-hook-is-trumps-point-man-on-iran-and-under-investigation" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Daily Beast</u></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;reported in March. Harvey previously worked at the White House as a member of the National Security Council, where he was<b>&nbsp;hired by former national security adviser Mike Flynn during the latter's brief tenure. Harvey was later&nbsp;</b></span><b><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/mcmaster-removes-flynn-pick-derek-harvey-national-security-council-n787146" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">fired</u></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;by Flynn's successor, H.R. McMaster.</span></b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Harvey is not the only Nunes associate doing the White House’s dirty work. Politico&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/23/nunes-protege-ukraine-trump-055837" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">reported</u></a>&nbsp;that Kash Patel, a former Nunes staffer who now works on the National Security Council, fed Trump damaging information about Ukraine.<b>&nbsp;Patel got his White House position after&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kash-patel-devin-nunes-ally-who-fought-russia-probe-gets-senior-white-house-national-security-job" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">leading Nunes’ effort</u></a>&nbsp;to discredit the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nunes himself has been using his time at the closed-door depositions trying to defend Trump by repeatedly citing the<b>&nbsp;Steele dossier,&nbsp;</b><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/devin-nunes-raised-steele-dossier-in-closed-door-trump-impeachment-hearing-with-gordon-sondland" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Daily Beast</u></a>&nbsp;reported earlier this month. The dossier is at the heart of the Republican conspiracy theory that operatives of the "deep state" had conspired to stop Trump in 2016. It was completely irrelevant to the topics discussed at the depositions, sources told the outlet, describing Nunes’ questioning as “nutso.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On Monday, Nunes&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/10/29/devin-nunes-compares-journalists-to-assassins-as-he-spreads-conspiracy-theories-on-fox-news/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News prime-time show</u></a>&nbsp;to declare the impeachment inquiry, which has uncovered damning revelations from members of Trump’s administration, the “Ukraine hoax.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/10/23/white-house-taylors-testimony-was-part-of-coordinated-smear-campaign-from-far-left-and-radicals/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">near-daily revelations from Trump staffers</u></a>, Nunes claimed that the “hoax” is based on “conspiracy theories” and bragged that he won’t discuss them with reporters.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">“These aren’t real reporters. They are assassins,” Nunes said. “They are assassins that are taking information from the Democrats on the Intelligence Committee and they are spreading it out there.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schiff, who replaced Nunes as chairman of the Intelligence Committee after Democrats won a House majority last year, hit out at Republicans for ignoring the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/10/22/trumps-ukraine-envoy-gives-congress-most-damning-evidence-yet-in-impeachment-probe/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">mounting evidence against Trump</u></a>&nbsp;and for their criticisms of the investigation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It will be said of House Republicans,”&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1186417580652814337" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Schiff tweeted</u></a>, “When they found they lacked the courage to confront the most dangerous and unethical president in American history, they consoled themselves by attacking those who did.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></article></div>