Part V: 'Substantially, Objectively True'
Devin Nunes, Steven Biss, and the Laptop of MAGA Secrets
Editor’s note: This investigation was originally published in April, when Telos News launched and before most of you had subscribed. I’ve taken it down and restructured it as a miniseries for subscribers to binge on through the holidays. As you’ll see, the themes are related to what you’ve been reading in the Bamboo Series, and together the two series will help you understand the birth of this Substack—and where it’s headed in 2026. In this email is Part V. The final installment of the Bamboo Series will land after this interlude and before the end of the year. Enjoy! — Ryan
V. Substantially, Objectively True
The Nunes family dairy (NuStar) “employed undocumented aliens, and did so knowingly, prior to the Esquire article being published on September 30, 2018. NuStar continues to employ some of those employees today knowing that they are not documented.” — Former ICE special agent Claude Arnold
What Colloton didn’t know, if indeed he had his eye on killing Sullivan, was just how bad our case would be for that cause. Back in Iowa, we got just about everything we wanted out of discovery: the results of an I-9 audit that NuStar had conducted after my article appeared, an order directing the Social Security Administration to provide us with information about every NuStar employee since 2006, and even some limited information about who might be funding the case.
We had an ex-ICE special agent, Claude Arnold, who was formerly the chief of ICE’s Transnational Gang unit at ICE Headquarters in Washington, DC, review the massive record we had assembled. He produced a devastating expert report that was not made public but has subsequently been unsealed.