2016 ELECTION/DEVIN NUNES/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr told CNN Tuesday [7-24-18] he believed there were ‘sound reasons’ for judges to approve the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant on former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, in yet another break between the Republican leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees…Burr’s comments once again put him at odds with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, who spearheaded the memo on FISA abuses. Burr and Nunes have been on opposite sides of a number of key issues related to the Justice Department and intelligence community’s handling of Russian interference in the 2016 election. While Nunes’ committee disputed the ‘tradecraft’ behind the US intelligence community’s January 2017 assessment that found Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to help Donald Trump win, the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a report earlier this month that agreed with the intelligence community’s conclusions and took no issue with its tradecraft. Burr steered clear of the original controversy over the Nunes memo earlier this year, and the effort from House Republicans to make public the classified material contained in the FISA warrant application on Page. Things got so tense between the panels that Burr’s staff was denied access to the memo by the House Intelligence Committee before it was released.”
–Jeremy Herb and Manu Raju, “Burr breaks with Nunes: ‘Sound reasons’ for judges to approve FISA warrant,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, July 24, 2018 4:10 pm