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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Fri Jan 17, 2020, 10:15 PM Jan 2020

Nunes aide communicated with Parnas about Ukraine campaign, messages show

Source: WaPo

By Paul Sonne, Rosalind S. Helderman and Greg Miller

Jan. 17, 2020 at 9:02 p.m. EST

House Democrats released new documents Friday evening showing extensive contact between an associate of President Trump’s personal attorney and an aide to the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee regarding the effort to obtain material from Ukrainian prosecutors that would be damaging to former vice president Joe Biden.

The text messages between Lev Parnas, who functioned as Rudolph W. Giuliani’s emissary to Ukrainian officials, and Derek Harvey, an aide to Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, indicate Nunes’s office was aware of the operation at the heart of impeachment proceedings against the president — and sought to use the information Parnas was gathering.

The newly released texts show that Parnas was working last spring to set up calls for Harvey with the Ukrainian prosecutors who were feeding Giuliani information about Biden.

“Also do you want to interview the general prosecutor who got [ditched] by Biden ? Also the anti corruption prosecutor ? Let me know,” Parnas wrote on April 19.

“Does tomorrow work?” Harvey responded.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/nunes-aide-communicated-with-parnas-about-ukraine-campaign-messages-show/2020/01/17/398ea1f6-3984-11ea-a01d-b7cc8ec1a85d_story.html



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Nunes aide communicated with Parnas about Ukraine campaign, messages show (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Jan 2020 OP
Holy cow, I figured an "aide" would be a 25-year-old preppy type--- WRONG Leghorn21 Jan 2020 #1
What kind of bull shit mercuryblues Jan 2020 #2
And he shouldn't be wearing the green! MartyTheGreek Jan 2020 #3
How is this ethically bankrupt consipirator against the United States still holding office? ffr Jan 2020 #4
He will sing and put Devin Nunes in the pokey GeorgiaPeanut Jan 2020 #5

Leghorn21

(13,527 posts)
1. Holy cow, I figured an "aide" would be a 25-year-old preppy type--- WRONG
Fri Jan 17, 2020, 10:29 PM
Jan 2020

Derek J. Harvey is a retired US Army Colonel who currently serves on the staff of Congressman Devin Nunes, ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.[1][2][3] Harvey is a former National Security Council (NSC) staffer in President Donald Trump's administration and was the first Director of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Center of Excellence at U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), having been selected by General David Petraeus in 2009 to lead the new organization.[4] Harvey was the previous senior analytical specialist for Iraq to Petraeus, then Commander, Multi-National Forces-Iraq.[5]


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Harvey



THIS IS AN ADULT MALE, not a punk kid

Anyway, sup, Derek

WOW



mercuryblues

(14,551 posts)
2. What kind of bull shit
Fri Jan 17, 2020, 10:47 PM
Jan 2020

will Nunes spew to coverup his involvement. He's sure to make a laughing stock out of himself.

ffr

(22,674 posts)
4. How is this ethically bankrupt consipirator against the United States still holding office?
Sat Jan 18, 2020, 04:04 AM
Jan 2020

Shouldn't there be an ethics investigation and conviction?

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