Devin Nunes Rises Again, Wielding the Trump Dossier Against Democrats

Republican Representative Devin Nunes’s days as a power broker seemed to be over last spring. After an ill-advised maneuver where he secretly received intelligence reports from a White House aide, then returned to the White House to brief President Trump on his discovery, Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, was forced to step back from leading the committee’s high-profile probe of Russian election interference.

But Nunes never stopped investigating, he just changed targets. He’s used his subpoena power to scrutinize the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Trump and the conduct of the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice in their probe of Hillary Clinton, and he’s become central to GOP efforts to raise doubts about the Trump-Russia probe. Nunes, who served on Trump’s presidential transition team, doesn’t hide his intent to show Trump-Russia collusion claims have no merit. “You should stop chasing Russian ghosts. You’re missing the big story,” he likes to tell reporters.