{"id":18809,"date":"2013-05-16T05:55:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T09:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18809"},"modified":"2013-05-16T05:55:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T09:55:57","slug":"a-new-wrinkle-in-one-of-the-current-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18809","title":{"rendered":"A New Wrinkle In One Of The Current Scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite radio shows is <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hugh Hewitt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hughhewitt.townhall.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">the Hugh Hewitt Show<\/a>. I can&#8217;t listen to him locally, but I can listen to him on <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/talkradio\/\">Townhall.com<\/a>. Mr. Hewitt is a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"California\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.0,-120.0&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=37.0,-120.0 (California)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">California<\/a> attorney, law professor, and served in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Presidency of Ronald Reagan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Presidency_of_Ronald_Reagan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Reagan Administration<\/a>. His show is always informative, and he posts many of the interviews at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hughhewitt.com\/congressman-devin-nunes-previews-ways-and-means-hearing-friday-plus-a-bombshell-on-the-ap-scandal\/\">HughHewitt.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The following is an excerpt from an interview with <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8897222222,-77.0088888889&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8897222222,-77.0088888889 (United%20States%20Congress)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Congress<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Devin Nunes\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Devin_Nunes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Devin Nunes<\/a> that took place on May 15th:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>DN: So when they went after the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Associated Press\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ap.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">AP<\/a> reporters, right? Went after all of their phone records, they went after the phone records, including right up here in the House Gallery, right up from where I\u2019m sitting right now. So you have a real <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Separation of powers\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Separation_of_powers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">separation of powers<\/a> issue that did this really rise to the level that you would have to get phone records that would, that would most likely include members of Congress, because as you know\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>HH: Wow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>DN: \u2026members of Congress talk to the press all the time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>HH: I did not know that, and that is a stunner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>DN: Now that is a separation of powers issue here, Hugh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>HH: Sure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>DN: And it\u2019s a freedom of press issue. And now you\u2019ve got the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Internal Revenue Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">IRS<\/a> going after people. So these things are starting to cascade one upon the other, and you have the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"White House\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8976694444,-77.03655&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8976694444,-77.03655 (White%20House)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">White House<\/a> pretending like they\u2019re in the clouds like it\u2019s not their issue somehow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This whole discussion of abuse of power just got very interesting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=167cb0fb-a4fd-491e-95d9-bdf02d77db8b\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite radio shows is the Hugh Hewitt Show. I can&#8217;t listen to him locally, but I can listen to him on Townhall.com. Mr. Hewitt is a California attorney, law professor, and served in the Reagan Administration. His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18809\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[322,30,735,2316,1799,300,211],"class_list":["post-18809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-associated-press","tag-california","tag-congress","tag-devin-nunes","tag-hugh-hewitt","tag-united-states-house-of-representatives","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18811,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18809\/revisions\/18811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}