Nunes, who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks on Capitol Hill in October. Even Republicans acknowledge it was difficult to distinguish between staffers’ allegiance to the committee and their loyalties to Nunes. “I don’t know where his staff ends and HPSCI” begins, Gowdy said, referring to the House Intelligence committee by its official acronym. The House Committee on Oversight and the Judiciary Committee have already launched an inquiry into the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe. “We have no evidence of Russia collusion between the Trump campaign” and Russia, Nunes said.

Source: Washington Post December 31, 2017 12:00 UTC