Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), now cleared by the House Ethics Committee, is focusing his – and some of his committee members' – attention on trying to discredit federal investigators rather than figure out how Russia interfered in the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign was involved.
WaPo:
Since clearing his name, Nunes has stepped up his attacks on Mueller’s team and the law enforcement agencies around it, including convening a group of Intelligence Committee Republicans to draft a likely report on “corruption” among the investigators working for the special counsel.
Though Nunes has not officially wrested his panel’s Russia probe back from the Republicans he deputized to run it, the chairman’s reemergence as a combative Trump loyalist has raised alarm among Democrats that the future of the investigation may be clipped short or otherwise undermined. Even some of Nunes’s GOP allies have expressed concern about his tactics, prompting rare public warnings that he should temper his attacks on federal law enforcement.
The Washington Post details how Nunes has kept one hand in the committee's Russia investigation all along by maintaining subpoena power and sending senior staffers to run interviews in his absence. The committee chair also appears determined to keep up his attack on Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that hired former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to look into Trump's ties to Russia. Steele's memos became the much-debated Trump-Russia dossier.
WaPo:
Nunes’s subpoena of the firm’s bank records is caught up in a court battle, and the chairman’s staff is in touch with the office of Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), according to the senator, who is also looking into reports that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party paid for research that ended up in the dossier’s pages.
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Nunes, meanwhile, appears to have made up his mind about the House Intelligence Committee probe into the allegations surrounding Trump and Russia, expressing his convictions in an interview with Fox News.
“We have no evidence of Russia collusion between the Trump campaign” and Russia, Nunes said.
Read more: Devin Nunes, targeting Mueller and the FBI, alarms Democrats and some Republicans with his tactics (WaPo)