Devin Nunes and Cokie’s Law
by digby
So Nunes took a bullet today and sort of, kind of admitted that he’s busted all norms by running to the White House with his “scoop” that Trump transition officials had been picked up in some surveillance with foreign actors.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said Thursday that he regrets informing President Trump of surveillance affecting the president’s transition team before he updated his panel.
“It’s a judgement call on my part,” he told reporters when asked why he spoke with Trump and the media before House Intelligence Committee Democrats.
“At the end of the day, sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you don’t,” Nunes added, noting he could not show the panel information that was given to him by a source.
Nunes declined to disclose his source’s identity when asked if it was the White House.
Read Trump’s bizarro interview in the post below and it’s not hard to conclude that the White House was the source. Probably Trump himself.
But as much as Nunes may have thrown himself in front of the bus for his president on this — and may have actually made things worse by pushing this scandal closer to an independent commission, he did succeed in upholding what I like to call Cokie’s Law, which says, “it doesn’t matter if it’s true or not, it’s out there.”
That’s the only law Trump cares about.
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