Legal expert raises alarm over 'shocking, astonishing, disturbing' Devin Nunes intel job

During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade raised red flags over Donald Trump's appointment of Truth Social exec Devin Nunes as chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.

Speaking with MSNBC fill-in host Melissa Murray, the former prosecutor claimed that, with all of the president-elect's problematic nominations, allowing Nunes access to sensitive intel secrets may be the worst of all.

McQuade got right to the point, calling the appointment, "A shocking, astonishing, disturbing, and fill in your descriptor, conflict of interests."

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"As chairman, Devin Nunes will have access to all of the intelligence that is gathered by the intelligence community," she explained. "The idea is that he is supposed to be the president's eyes and ears over the intelligence community. With that information, and simultaneously serving as the head of Truth Social, it means he has the ability to post things he shouldn't know but also as Rick Wilson points out, the fact that Truth Social receives funding from foreign governments, while they are also targets of our intelligence come is deeply disturbing."

"If someone had to go through a routine background investigation, those conflicts would be flagged with screaming sirens and I would imagine that most presidents, most offices of personnel management would find him to be a nonstarter," she added.

"But here we have Donald Trump putting [him] in place, knowing about this conflicts," she suggested. "I think of all of the appointments, this conflict might be the most disturbing."

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