Rep. Devin Nunes cast himself in an interview Wednesday as a defender of the Justice Department and U.S. intelligence agencies even as he declined to categorically rule out suggestions that the “deep state” is out to overthrow President Trump.
The California Republican, chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, emphasized that his aim is to “clean up this mess” at the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation — a mess he blamed on a counterintelligence probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion by Trump or his associates that Nunes describes as flawed and begun on false pretenses.
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