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    Who Is Devin Nunes? A Look At The Man Behind The Memo

    House intelligence committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., is at the center of a political firestorm over the release of a memo critiquing FBI surveillance.
    by Kelsey Snell Feb 02, 2018 5 minutes
    House intelligence committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., speaks to reporters at the Capitol last year. Nunes is at the center of a political firestorm over the release of a memo critiquing FBI surveillance.

    California Republican Devin Nunes is at the center of a frenzied uproar in Washington with Friday's release of a secret memo on FBI surveillance.

    The controversy comes with the 44-year-old chairman of the House intelligence committee on a rocky, rapid rise to power in President Trump's Republican Party — an ascent that required something of an about-face. Once an aggressive critic of the GOP's populist right flank, Nunes has become a key Trump defender and champion of the party's most conservative wing.

    Nunes began his congressional career at age 29, under the wing of former Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., the powerful and respected chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. Nunes befriended Thomas, and his staffer Kevin McCarthy, years earlier when Nunes served

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