Heard from Nunes lately? It may be because he recently was threatened by Rod Rosenstein following a heated, closed-door clash.
On Tuesday, Fox News reported that House Intelligence staff felt “personally attacked” at a meeting with Rosenstein in January.
Staffers for Devin Nunes apparently threatened to hold Rod Rosenstein in Contempt of Congress in a recent meeting. He told them if they did, he would have the right to subpoena their communications and put them on the witness stand to prove them wrong. He's 100% right about that. https://t.co/a41tMnT4du
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) June 12, 2018
In response, according to CNN, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein plans to call on the House to investigate its own committee staff.
Feud erupts between DOJ and Nunes, with Rosenstein now threatening to call for a House investigation into Nunes staffers after DOJ rebuts account of heated, closed-door clash, per @LauraAJarrett https://t.co/wYMoUGJBVn
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 12, 2018
Justice Department officials dispute the claims from House Republicans of the closed-door meeting detailed in the Fox News story, and say that Rosenstein plans to “request that the House general counsel conduct an internal investigation of these Congressional staffers’ conduct”.
“The Deputy Attorney General never threatened anyone in the room with a criminal investigation,” a DOJ official said. “The FBI Director, the senior career ethics adviser for the Department, and the Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs who were all present at this meeting are all quite clear that the characterization of events laid out here is false.”
The official went on to say, “The Deputy Attorney General was making the point — after being threatened with contempt — that as an American citizen charged with the offense of contempt of Congress, he would have the right to defend himself, including requesting production of relevant emails and text messages and calling them as witnesses to demonstrate that their allegations are false.  That is why he put them on notice to retain relevant emails and text messages, and he hopes they did so.”
Looks like White House errand boy Devin Nunes has finally pushed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein over the edge with all his unprecedented requests for information on the Russia probe. Â Guess Nunes should have thought twice about taking that information turning it around to attack Mueller and the Russian investigation.
Oh snap! Â It’s finally happened. Â Devin Nunes just broke Rod Rosenstein.
There is some good news today after all!
I’m glad someone is finally doing something to “subdue” Nunes, congressional troublemaker who lies as much as Trump. He caused trouble right from the beginning when the House Congressional Investigation was formed, running back and forth from the White House probably giving information about the bi-partison committee.