Nunes: FBI Was Lying to Congress

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Nunes: FBI Was Lying to Congress —
‘This Is Really, Really Bad, and Somebody
Needs to Pay a Price for It’






JEFF POOR
20 Dec 2020


During an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures”
this week, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the ranking member on the
House Intelligence Committee, explained how text messages from
disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok revealed the FBI did not open an
investigation because of actions of then-Trump campaign association
George Papadopoulos.

Papadopoulos was used as justification for the FBI’s counterintelligence
investigations relating to Trump-Russian connections, known as
Crossfire Hurricane.

According to Nunes, Papadopoulos was a “phony target,” which was not
revealed in testimony to Congress.

“Look, I think, overall here, these are kind of the text messages that
we have all been waiting for, that we knew probably existed, that give
the hard evidence that our investigation really needed several years ago,”
Nunes said. “So, I have made the statement on your show and many
others publicly over the last few years that we know the FBI was lying
to Congress, because we knew that they did not open this investigation
because of Papadopoulos, and then they opened it on July 31. That
was always nonsense. There was plenty of evidence of that.”

“And, here, we have a text message that was clearly relevant to our
investigation that they hid from us,” he continued. “And look, I would
also say it’s now clear that Papadopoulos was so mistreated, it’s just
so unbelievable. I mean, they’re actually — this — the FBI and DOJ in
this country ought to be ashamed of themselves, mocking a target that
they knew was a phony target. They’re making fun of Papadopoulos.
This is really, really bad, and somebody needs to pay a price for it.”