{"id":100714,"date":"2018-07-03T22:10:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T02:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=100714"},"modified":"2018-07-03T22:10:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T02:10:54","slug":"adam-schiff-totally-loses-it-again-threatens-republican-house-leadership-over-spying-and-surveillance-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=100714","title":{"rendered":"Adam Schiff Totally Loses It Again! Threatens Republican House Leadership Over Spying and Surveillance Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1>Nunes slams Schiff over threat to hold GOP &#8216;accountable&#8217; for probing alleged surveillance of Trump campaign<\/h1>\n<p>By Lukas Mikelionis | Fox News<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=5804608076001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Monday dug in after Democrats warned Republicans that &#8220;they will be held accountable&#8221; for damaging the FBI and Justice Department during their probe into possible government surveillance abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cWe\u2019re not gonna be threatened by the Democrats. They are the ones that have all this blood on their hands,\u201d Nunes told Fox News\u2019 Laura Ingraham on \u201cThe Ingraham Angle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey&#8217;re the ones who completely destroyed the FBI and DOJ. How did they do that? They did that by digging up dirt, the Clinton campaign dug up dirt, put it into a dossier, fed into the FBI and the FBI used our counterintelligence capabilities against a political campaign,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pull-quote\">\n<p class=\"quote-text\">\u201cThey are the ones that have all this blood on their hands. They&#8217;re the ones who completely destroyed the FBI and DOJ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"quote-author\">&#8211; House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., called Nunes and three other Republicans \u2013 Reps. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., Mark Meadows, R-N.C. and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio&#8211; the \u201cfour horsemen of this apocalypse\u201d on CNN last week.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff accused the group of trying to weaponize materials about the alleged surveillance of the Trump campaign amid Nunes\u2019 letter calling to interview\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2018\/07\/02\/nunes-wants-10-officials-who-served-during-obama-administration-to-testify-on-russia-probe.html\">over a dozen former FBI and DOJ officials<\/a>, including fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe and embattled FBI official Peter Strzok.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have been leading the charge basically to require the Justice Department to give them materials that can be leaked or fed or misrepresented, like the infamous Nunes memorandum, in the service of the president,\u201d Schiff said. \u201cAnd in the meantime, they do enormous damage to these institutions. Ultimately, they will be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=5801568814001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Nunes sent a letter last week urging the Oversight and Judiciary Committees to interview the officials about possible government surveillance abuse during the 2016 election as they may \u201chave relevant information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2018\/07\/02\/nunes-wants-10-officials-who-served-during-obama-administration-to-testify-on-russia-probe.html\">NUNES WANTS 10 OFFICIALS WHO SERVED DURING OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO TESTIFY ON RUSSIA PROBE<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Nunes called on the Oversight and Judiciary Committees to interview former State Department officials Elizabeth Dibble, Jonathan Finer, Kathleen Kavalec, Lewis Lukens, Victoria Nuland, Thomas Williams and Jonathan Winer, as well as former Obama White House officials Jake Sullivan, Colin Kahl and Shailagh Murray.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the sake of transparency and to keep the American people as fully informed as possible about these matters, the task force should consider interviewing these individuals in an open setting,\u201d Nunes wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News\u2019 Catherine Herridge and Alex Pappas contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2018\/07\/03\/nunes-slams-schiff-over-threat-to-hold-gop-accountable-for-probing-alleged-surveillance-trump-campaign.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2018\/07\/03\/nunes-slams-schiff-over-threat-to-hold-gop-accountable-for-probing-alleged-surveillance-trump-campaign.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}