Devin Nunes, targeting Mueller and the FBI, alarms Democrats and some Republicans with his tactics

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Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) arrives for a closed House Republican conference meeting on Capitol Hill on Dec. 19. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters)
By Karoun Demirjian December 31 at 7:00 AM

Rep. Devin Nunes, once sidelined by an ethics inquiry from leading the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe, is reasserting the full authority of his position as chairman just as the GOP appears poised to challenge special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.

The California Republican was cleared in December of allegations he improperly disclosed classified information while accusing the Obama administration of exposing the identities of Trump affiliates on surveillance reports. 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.

Republican lawmakers and Fox News question the integrity of the FBI, as special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe intensifies. (Joyce Koh/The Washington Post)

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..............................................

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Dems on the House Intel committee are now saying that @DevinNunes killed their requests to subpoena Sessions, Don Jr and others for follow-up questioning, WaPo reports.

Good @karoun reporting:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/devin-nunes-targeting-mueller-and-the-fbi-alarms-democrats-and-some-republicans-with-his-tactics/2017/12/30/b8181ebc-eb02-11e7-9f92-10a2203f6c8d_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_nunes-752am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.e78807228c60 …




Earlier this month, @RepAdamSchiff told me House Intel Dems wanted to bring back Don Jr to ask about his conversation w/ President Trump about the meeting w/ the Russian lawyer. Schiff's quote is below. Nunes appears to have killed this effort. http://wapo.st/2CgX6D1

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