Critics (at least this one) are panning the terrible performance of Kabuki star Lindsey Graham in the improvised Washington open air play, “Chairman Nunes is a co-conspirator”.
When Nunes possibly released classified information after he and his fellow Kabuki actors staged such a wonderful display on Monday about how serious leaking information is, and after Nunes gave a private performance to Trump of the Nixon era stage play, in the oval, of “Let’s commit obstruction of justice”, the door was wide open for Graham to give an impromptu display of his skills.
Sadly for Sen Graham, his fellow competitor for the Kabuki academy’s best actor award, Sen McCain, stepped right up and called for a select committee. With the best supporting actor award his for the taking, Sen Graham forgot his lines and resorted back to his, I’m just a Republican act that has worked so well in the past.
Graham performed for CNN where he said the following about the Nunes show:
“I meet with foreign leaders all the time as a senator,” Graham told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Wednesday evening. “I wonder if my meetings are being surveilled by the intelligence community.
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“The one thing that is a bit disturbing is that a transition team you expect to be talking to other countries. What I want to know is when a transition team member talks to a representative of another country, what are the procedures to make sure that that is confidential in terms of the interaction between our government and a foreign nation?”
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“But there’s a legal process. So from what I understand is that Trump members were talking to people that were under legal surveillance. Here is the question I think for the country. Should the executive branch, should the intelligence community, be surveilling conversations between transition team members, members of Congress, about policy, not intelligence gathering?
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Graham, in response to a question, said he finds it a “bit odd” that Nunes rushed over to the White House to brief the president before briefing his own committee.
So sad to see such a fine actor miss such a golden opportunity. In a play about a chairman’s efforts to block an investigation of a dictator’s efforts to crush our democracy, Lindsey Graham thinks he’s in a show about, people keep looking at me. He had a chance to form a great duet with McCain and hit the road with a, lets try to save our democracy show, and instead he’s decided to join the Nunes obstruction show and change the plot from, it’s about treason, to, it’s about sneaky people looking at me.
Don’t worry Sen Graham, I hear you’re doing a great job over at the Gorsuch show transforming a right wing nut job into a golly gee Ned Flanders character.
RESIST!