{"id":11400,"date":"2018-09-14T16:25:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T23:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11400"},"modified":"2018-09-14T16:25:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T23:25:53","slug":"demonization-of-nunes-is-a-window-into-our-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/demonization-of-nunes-is-a-window-into-our-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Demonization of Nunes Is a Window Into Our Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">M<\/span>uch of what we now know about the unethical and often illegal behavior of the FBI, CIA, National Security Agency, and Department of Justice emerged due to the efforts of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Its chairman during its stunning disclosures has been Representative Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), who in turn has been constantly demonized for his efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Yet without the committee\u2019s digging, Americans would not have known that Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid for an unsubstantiated 2016 dossier on Donald Trump compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the committee\u2019s work, we did not know that the FBI and Justice Department used unverified information from the Steele dossier to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court allowing for the surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/09\/devin-nunes-target-of-unprecedented-media-venom\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Much of what we now know about the unethical and often illegal behavior of the FBI, CIA, National Security Agency, and Department of Justice emerged due to the efforts of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Its chairman during its stunning disclosures has been Representative Devin Nunes (R., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1159,1151,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2XS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10943,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-fisa-gate-boomerangs\/","url_meta":{"origin":11400,"position":0},"title":"The FISA-Gate Boomerangs","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Some things still do not add up about the so-called Steele dossier, FISA warrants, the Nunes memo, and the hysterical Democratic reaction to it. A Big Deal or a Nothing Deal? 1) Progressives and Democrats warned on the eve of the memo\u2019s release that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;CIA&quot;","block_context":{"text":"CIA","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/cia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10948,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/fisa-gate-is-scarier-than-watergate\/","url_meta":{"origin":11400,"position":1},"title":"FISA-Gate is Scarier than Watergate","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The Watergate scandal of 1972\u201374 was uncovered largely because of outraged Democratic politicians and a bulldog media. They both claimed that they had saved American democracy from the Nixon administration\u2019s attempt to warp the CIA and FBI to cover up an otherwise minor, though\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;FISA&quot;","block_context":{"text":"FISA","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/fisa\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11713,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/learning-to-love-the-deep-state\/","url_meta":{"origin":11400,"position":2},"title":"Learning to Love the Deep State","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review In the 1970s, the military officer corps and the top ranks of the CIA, DOJ, and FBI were, in the eyes of the Left, synonymous with\u00a0Seven Days in May\u2014 and\u00a0Manchurian Candidate\u2013like conspiracies. Yet in 2016, these same institutions had been recalibrated by progressives as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10926,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/did-the-fbi-vouch-for-the-crazy-russian-deal-from-the-steele-dossier\/","url_meta":{"origin":11400,"position":3},"title":"Did The FBI Vouch For The Crazy Russian Deal From The Steele Dossier?","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Paul Roderick Gregory \/\/ Forbes The media\u2019s promotion of an unverified dossier against Republican candidate, Donald Trump, failed to cement Hillary Clinton\u2019s expected victory in November. If that were the whole story, the dossier would have faded from public view, the new President Trump would not have spent his first\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;FBI&quot;","block_context":{"text":"FBI","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/fbi\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11000,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/02-16-2018-angry-reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":11400,"position":4},"title":"02\/16\/2018 Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Sir, Your piece on political scandals is totally skewed of facts. The only so-called FISA-gate has been created by Trump's lacky Nunes. Your writing of lies and inaccuracies only fuels the clueless base of this president. I don't need to tell you what the real information\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11012,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-paradoxes-of-the-mueller-investigation\/","url_meta":{"origin":11400,"position":5},"title":"The Paradoxes of the Mueller Investigation","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review They are numerous, and none of them are good news for President Trump\u2019s opponents. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has indicted 13 Russian nationals for allegedly conspiring to sow confusion in the 2016 presidential election. 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