"Our job is to oversee these agencies, and when they go awry, to rein them in."

At National Review, Jim Geraghty writes a very thorough article about House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes.

“I don’t really judge this by, ‘Is the committee bipartisan? Do people cooperate?’ I don’t really give a damn about that,” Nunes says. “What I care about is: Do you have members doing their work? Are they doing their work in an honest, hard-working fashion to get to the truth, whatever the truth is? Our job is to oversee these agencies, and when they go awry, to rein them in. That’s our job. We’re the legislative branch of government. We created these guys, and they’re not above the law. And they’re going to be reined in for as long as I’m chairman.”

Read much more here.