House Armed Services Committee Chairman: Ethics investigation into Nunes ‘likely’

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said Saturday that top House Intelligence Committee Republican Devin Nunes (Calif.) should face an ethics probe due to accusations that he met with a former Ukrainian prosecutor who is central to the impeachment inquiry. 

Asked in an MSNBC interview whether Nunes should be investigated, Smith said, “Quite likely, without question.”

An attorney for Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, told CNN a Ukrainian official informed his client that Nunes met with former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin last December in an attempt to find dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden. 

Nunes told Breitbart that the accusation was “demonstrably false” and has threatened legal action.

“I understand a lot of this is about Joe Biden, but the bigger thing is about what President Trump and the Russians and all these people have been doing,” Smith said, calling it “a systematic problem that is a threat to the country because of what Russia is doing to democracy.” 

Nunes was the subject of a 2017 investigation over accusations of disclosing classified committee information to the White House but was cleared of that charge, according to Politico. 

The Hill has reached out to Nunes for comment.  

.@RepAdamSmith: This isn’t really about #JoeBiden… What it is about is covering up what the Russians did in the first place and covering up the extent to which a whole lot of people… were in direct contact with the very Russians who were interfering in our election. #AMJoy pic.twitter.com/xqtt0aKymk

— AM Joy w/Joy Reid (@amjoyshow) November 23, 2019