Nunes: wants AG Sessions held in contempt of Congress

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) wants to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions held in contempt of Congress. And why not? Sessions is as useless as a yo-yo to a bottle fly.

The committee is looking into allegations that the DoJ and FBI abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in looking into the Trump campaign.

Nunes appeared on Fox News' "Fox and Friends" Sunday. "On Thursday we discovered that they are not going to comply with our subpoena," he said, adding, "the only thing left to do is we have to move quickly to hold the attorney general of the United States in contempt and that is what I will press for this week."

Nunes sent Sessions a classified letter two weeks ago but it was not acknowledged, so he then sent a subpoena, although Nunes conceded that it's possible the little AG wasn't aware of it. But he said that he will not accept any "excuses" relating to national security concerns in terms of the ongoing Russian probe and how it was handled.

This has been a "go-to" excuse by the FBI and DoJ in the past and Nunes is apparently fed up with it. "How many times have we heard this argument throughout this investigation?" he asked.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) agrees with Nunes.

"I have deeper and deeper concerns the more I see some of this, not only the stonewalling, but what's been in some of these memos," Scalise said on 'Fox and Friends'. "We're also trying to get a lot of other information from the Department of Justice about this investigation, and everything that we uncover raises even deeper concerns about the direction."

The Department of Justice says that it responded to the Nunes letter, said Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures."

Nunes called the FBI and DoJ redaction of his committee's Russia report was "excessive and sloppy." The committee's report found that FBI agents "did not detect any deception during [Michael] Flynn's interview."

But you would never know that if your only news source was CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, or CBS. 


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