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House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes knows his way around Congress and the deep state, and what’s more, the California Republican isn’t afraid to call balls and strikes like he sees them.
As such, he made it plain this week that under Joe Biden, the intelligence community can’t go back being weaponized like it was during Biden’s VP days, under the ‘tutelage of Barack Obama, when only Republicans (and lefty media types who asked to many questions) were ‘targets of interest.’
The Washington Times reports:
Republicans are putting the Biden intelligence chiefs on notice that their agencies are moving dangerously close to spying on Americans in the U.S.
They raised concerns on Thursday at a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing featuring President Biden’s five top intelligence officials, including Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray.
The fears stem from both the past and the present.
The most egregious example of the abuse of our intelligence community was Obama’s deployment of ‘assets’ against the 2016 campaign of Hillary Clinton’s rival, Donald Trump. There should have been multiple arrests and imprisonment over that outrage, but even Trump couldn’t get the cogs of justice to move for him, so the guilty remain free.
Which brings us full circle back to Nunes: He’s seen that movie already and he doesn’t want to watch it again.
“The Democrats see political benefits in characterizing wide swaths of American citizens particularly Republicans and conservatives as politically suspect, politically violent and deserving of government surveillance,” Nunes said during Thursday’s hearings. “However, I will remind those assembled here today that our intelligence community exists solely to counteract foreign threats.
