If The White House collaborated with Nunes (which Nunes refuses to deny) on the memo, shouldn't he

be in jail?

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nunes-dirty-hands-part-two

I saw a fascinating interview just a few moments ago on CNN. It was with Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL). Great minds think alike, I guess. Here’s a bit of background before we get to the interview.

Over the last day or so I’ve been hearing these questions about whether the White House collaborated on writing the Nunes Memo. It seemed neither side – not Nunes or the White House – was giving a straight answer. After hearing this a few times, it clicked for me. Of course, they worked together! They have a history. This goes all the way back to the Spring of 2017 when Devin Nunes got caught up in that bizarre “un-masking” nonsense, working as the errand boy of the White House. Remember, that midnight visit to the White House, looking at supposedly highly classified documents that revealed a scandal about ‘un-masking’ and illicit Obama White House surveillance of the Trump 2016 campaign. The whole charade finally blew up in Nunes’ face and led indirectly to his what amounted to his forced recusal from the House intelligence committee investigation. So he’s got a history.

But it actually goes deeper than this. Looking again at what happened, in that case, gives us an important clue to what may be happening here.

Back in the first days and weeks of the Trump administration, Mike Flynn tasked his protege and deputy Ezra Cohen-Watnick to do a ‘review’ of intelligence community communications and surveillance. The pretty clear-cut aim of the effort was to help Flynn find out what the investigation of him – Flynn – had come up with. Cohen Watnick was working with a junior lawyer at the White House Counsel’s office on his ‘review’. Now, not long after this, Flynn gets fired. But Cohen-Watnick didn’t stop. Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon were protecting him at this time and interceded with President Trump to block General McMaster from firing him.