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Devin Nunes on Ending the Politicization of America’s Intelligence Agencies
It’s been almost a decade since then-House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes first launched his investigation with now-FBI director Kash Patel into the scandal that became known as “Russiagate.”
His watershed memo back in 2018—dubbed the “Nunes memo”—detailed what he describes as grave abuses in how the FBI obtained surveillance warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to surveil Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and later the first Trump administration.
It’s “the biggest scandal in U.S. history, by a long way,” he says.
In July 2025, the Trump administration…
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