2016 ELECTION/DEVIN NUNEZ/GOP/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Devin Nunes had recently graduated from the tiny College of the Sequoias when he won his first election, defeating a popular incumbent on the college’s board of trustees. That election marked the start of a political rise by the young Republican from dairy farmer to chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, which has been front and center in a tense political battle over how to deal with Russian interference in the 2016 election. That panel last week voted along party lines to endorse a final report that finds no evidence of collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow, and concludes that Russia was sowing ‘social discord,’ rather than promoting his candidacy—a finding that runs counter to an intelligence community assessment from early 2017.”
-Byron Tau, “Behind the Political Rise of Devin Nunes,” The Wall Street Journal, Mar. 29, 2018, 5:30am