Then yesterday, thanks to a series of coordinated media leaks, Nunes learned \u2013 at the same time as the broader public – about the reassignment of Peter Strzok, a senior Mueller aide\u00a0who had played a critical role in the DOJ\u2019s original collusion investigation. And before that, Strzok helped lead the FBI\u2019s probe into Hillary Clinton\u2019s mishandling of classified information.<\/strong><\/p>\n As it turns out, the agent had been reassigned for expressing anti-Trump sentiments in a series of text messages to FBI attorney Lisa Page while the two were having an affair. The bureau, it appears, had willfully tried to conceal this fact from Nunes and his committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n Upon being blindsided with this information and publicly embarassed, the Intel committee chairman was understandably less than pleased. So in a statement issued Sunday, Nunes announced a serious escalation: His committee, he said, is preparing to hold Andrew McCabe and assistant AG Rod Rosenstein in contempt for the DOJ’s failure to comply with Nunes’s subpoena.<\/strong><\/p>\n Strzok was reassigned in July, shortly before Nunes issued the request for the bureau to turn over all documents relating to the Trump dossier. In a transparent attempt to save face, the bureau contacted Nnes shortly after the Strzok news broke on Saturday to say they were ready to comply with the subpoena. But Nunes rightly repudiated this offer, saying it was too little, too late. He laid out his argument for preparing the order of contempt in a statement released Sunday offering details of the committee’s unsuccessful push to convince the FBI to turn over the documents it had requested.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a timeline of Nunes’ contact with the Department of Justice courtesy of the\u00a0Washington Examiner:<\/a><\/p>\n Republicans, including President Trump, pointed to the news as evidence that the entire probe into Russian meddling had been politically motivated.<\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, both the FBI and House Democrats have been silent on the issue, according to\u00a0Bloomberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n A Justice Department spokesman, Sarah Isgur Flores, couldn\u2019t be immediately reached for comment by telephone or text. There was no immediate response Sunday from a spokesman for the committee\u2019s top Democrat, Representative Adam Schiff of California.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user245717\/imageroot\/2017\/11\/20\/2017.12.03nunes.JPG\")
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