Eli Lake, Columnist

Devin Nunes Explains His White House Visit

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee explains why he went to the White House to view classified documents, and what they said about Trump and Russia.

March 27, 2017 at 4:09 PM UTC

By Eli Lake

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

Devin Nunes's visit on Wednesday was very public.
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Editor's Note: On March 30, the New York Times reported that Devin Nunes's sources were White House staff members, not members of the intelligence community. A column on the ramifications is here.

For the last few days, much of Washington has been obsessed with what Representative Devin Nunes did last Tuesday evening. That was the night before Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, made the explosive allegation that he had viewed dozens of intelligence reports obtained through government eavesdropping that inappropriately included details about the Trump transition team.