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Democrats have tried to block the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation of the FBI and its probe of the Trump presidential campaign. They have failed. And the Senate Judiciary Committee is investigating the actions of the FBI on its own.

Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, is an exception to the rule that committee chairs, male or female, are allowed to run things as they choose. Democrats, left-wing groups, and those who obsess about Trump won’t let him.

Applying checks and balances to our government’s surveillance activities was the right idea. But who will oversee the overseers?

In many ways, Thursday’s classified Justice Department briefing was the culmination of a year’s work for House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes. For months, Nunes has been demanding that the Justice Department turn over information documenting how and why they first began to investigate…

Analyzing a former Trump aide’s claim.

The House Intelligence Committee voted on party lines Thursday to begin the declassification process for a GOP-led report that Republicans say caps the panel’s yearlong investigation into 2016 Russian election interference.

The House Intelligence Committee majority announced Monday that, having found no evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russians, they are wrapping up the information-gathering part of their Russia probe. “We will now be moving into the next phases of this investigation,” said Rep. Mike…

FBI director Christopher Wray fended off accusations of political bias at the bureau Tuesday, amid controversy over a GOP memo that suggests misconduct by officials at the FBI and Department of Justice.

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Friday’s Washington Post featured an op-ed by an old Washington hand, late of the State Department, who was right in the middle of the dossier affair, a Mr. Jonathan M. Winer. His byline bio identifies him as “a Washington lawyer and consultant,” and “a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of…

GOP lawmakers are raising concerns about surveillance abuses in a controversial memo, weeks after shepherding through the renewal of a surveillance authority. The apparent contradiction has civil liberties advocates asking, what gives?

Will Super Bowl 52 be the event that changes how the football establishment thinks? About going for it on fourth down, of course.

The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously on Monday to publicly release a Democratic memo intended to counter a now-public Republican document that alleges surveillance abuses against a former Trump campaign adviser.

The House Intelligence Committee is expected to vote Monday on publicly releasing a memo that Democrats say rebuts a Republican document alleging surveillance abuses that was released Friday.

Donald Trump says the House Intelligence committee memo on the FBI’s application to surveil an associate of his campaign “totally vindicates” him in the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The memo, authored by Republican Intelligence chairman Devin Nunes, does…

Update: Devin Nunes clarifies his comments as reported below. He tells TWS that his investigation will produce more reports, but he will release the information in a traditional manner.

South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham is renewing his call for a second special counsel in the wake of the release of a GOP-drafted memo that alleges politically-motivated surveillance abuses.

The House Intelligence Committee on Friday publicly released a GOP-drafted memo that alleges surveillance abuses against the Trump team, amid objections from the FBI, Department of Justice officials, and committee Democrats.

The highly-anticipated memo from Rep. Devin Nunes has now been officially released. You can read it in its entirety, for yourself, here.

We’re likely to see the Memo—that’s the House Intelligence committee’s memo, written by GOP chairman Devin Nunes, alleging wrongdoing on the part of the FBI’s initial investigation into Russian meddling by Trump campaign associates—sometime on Friday. Whatever Nunes’s summary of the FBI’s FISA…

President Trump has until Friday to decide what to do with the so-called Nunes memo, the document alleging widespread misbehavior at the FBI that the House Intelligence Committee voted along partisan lines to release to the public on Monday. Committee rules provide the White House a five-day window…

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is calling on the panel’s Republican chairman to halt the process of releasing a memo alleging that the Trump campaign was a victim of surveillance abuses, shortly before the document’s expected public release.

The FBI on Wednesday expressed “grave concerns” about the public release of a Republican-drafted memo that reportedly contains allegations of FBI partisanship and surveillance abuses, a rare display of public displeasure from the usually taciturn agency.

The House Intelligence Committee is set to meet Monday evening amid a heated a party-line battle over a secret, GOP-drafted memo that Republicans want released publicly. A committee aide told THE WEEKLY STANDARD ahead of the meeting that a vote on releasing the memo publicly is “possible.”

As House Republicans and Democrats battle over the release of a secret memo alleging surveillance abuses against the Trump campaign, Senate Republicans are not giving in to the prevailing heated rhetoric.

The House Intelligence Committee is now home to dueling memos over alleged surveillance abuses related to the 2016 election. Democrats on the committee have crafted their own secret document in response to a Republican-drafted memo that outlines alleged FBI misconduct against the Trump team, as…

Top House Republicans met Saturday amid mounting calls for the release of a memo about alleged surveillance abuses by federal officials, a document that Democrats describe as a partisan stunt meant to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller.

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives are expected to vote Thursday on whether to renew a controversial surveillance power that Trump officials say is vital for protecting against terrorism and other national security threats.

The House Intelligence and Oversight Committees are investigating Russia’s involvement in a controversial Obama-era uranium deal, the panel’s chairman announced Tuesday.

For some months now, the House Intelligence Committee, led by Rep. Devin Nunes, has been investigating whether there were political motivations to the the Obama White House’s “unmasking” of American citizens who were named in intelligence reports. Nunes has previously stated that he has seen…

Intelligence agencies are supplying the House Intelligence Committee with information about unmasking requests made by three former Obama administration officials, a spokesman for the committee chairman told THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

The House Intelligence committee issued subpoenas targeting two Trump associates on Wednesday as part of its ongoing investigation into Russian election interference. The panel also reportedly subpoenaed three government agencies for information that could shed light on potential surveillance…

Former CIA director John Brennan said Tuesday that he did not know whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin, but told lawmakers that he had seen intelligence that triggered questions about the possibility of such coordination.

The fallout from allegations by Devin Nunes of potential surveillance abuses by the Obama White House has a top former intelligence official warning that such claims threaten to undermine the intelligence community's credibility.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes has been in the news recently because a source in the intelligence community informed him that Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice was behind the "unmasking" of Trump campaign associates in intelligence reports, which may have led to other…

Bloomberg's Eli Lake dropped a bombshell on Monday: Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice was responsible for "unmasking" the identities of Trump officials in intelligence intercepts, and spreading this information around the government.

Former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice on Tuesday denied abusing intelligence for political reasons during her time in the White House, after a report revealed that she requested the identities of Trump transition team members in intelligence documents on numerous occasions.

The House Intelligence committee's top Democrat said Sunday that it is too early to say whether there was collusion between the Trump team and Russia, in an apparent moderation of his past claims on the subject.

Michael Flynn, the short-tenured national security advisor for President Trump, is offering to testify to both the FBI and the congressional intelligence committees about possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russia in exchange for immunity. The Wall Street Journal had the scoop…

The New York Times reports that two White House officials were involved in uncovering and distributing intelligence reports that wound up in the hands of House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes last week. "Several current American officials identified the White House officials as Ezra…

The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee vowed to thoroughly assess the intelligence community's conclusions on Russian election interference Wednesday, steering clear of the controversies plaguing their House intel counterparts.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said that the FBI is still not fully cooperating with the committee's request for information pertaining to its Russia investigation, which includes the leaks that precipitated the resignation of former national security adviser General Mike Flynn.

There are two related but separate issues regarding House Intelligence committee chairman Devin Nunes's revelation last week that identifying information about associates of the Trump campaign and transition team was collected by and distributed within the intelligence committee.

In the time since President Trump's March 4 tweets alleging he had his "'wires tapped' in Trump Tower" shortly before last year's election by President Obama, there's been no evidence revealed that strictly supports his claim. Trump opponents view this lack of evidence as proof the president made…

Top Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee spurned a request from the panel's Democratic ranking member Monday night to have chairman Devin Nunes recuse himself from an investigation into Russia and intelligence gathering related to the Trump transition.

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee accused the panel's Republican chairman Devin Nunes of "cancelling" an open hearing on Russian election interference on Friday. The rebuke came after Nunes said he was postponing the hearing until after the committee hears closed testimony from…

The top spokesman for President Trump declined to rule out that someone at the White House may have given or alerted the House Intelligence committee chairman about documents revealing intelligence collection involving Trump campaign associates. On Wednesday California congressman Devin Nunes…

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has volunteered to testify before the House Intelligence Committee, the committee's chairman told reporters Friday.

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee has "no idea" about findings his House counterpart presented Wednesday that Trump transition officials' communications were incidentally collected before the inauguration and potentially improperly disseminated.

The House of Representatives will vote Thursday on the American Health Care Act, a bill President Donald Trump has enthusiastically endorsed and what the administration considers its best and perhaps only chance to repeal and replace Obamacare. It's the first and possibly biggest test so far of…

Most of the Trump transition members whose communications were allegedly collected via pre-inaugural incidental surveillance had their identities redacted in intelligence reports, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday. The chairman of the committee informed him of that…

Trump transition officials were caught in incidental surveillance before the inauguration, the chairman of the House Intelligence committee told reporters Wednesday. These individuals had their communications circulated within the intelligence community and their identities revealed internally,…

Russia waged a conspicuous campaign to undermine the American political process and will continue attempting to do so in coming years, top intelligence and law enforcement officials told lawmakers Monday.

The House Intelligence Committee will subpoena information from law enforcement and intelligence agencies if necessary to investigate potential surveillance violations tied to former Trump national security adviser General Mike Flynn, the committee's chairman said Wednesday.

Secret intelligence captured during the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden's compound and withheld from the public by the Obama administration must be released, the House intelligence chairman told THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

A House investigation that includes the Trump campaign's alleged contacts with Russian intelligence officials is ongoing, but preliminary inquiries on the matter have not returned incriminating evidence, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said on Monday.

The leaks that led to the resignation of former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn were politically motivated, a top Republican senator said Thursday, joining a House Republican who has suggested the same.