[JustTheNews] "I believe the reason that he chose me to do it is because I was, you know, I saw the corruption up front and personal," he said on the "Victor Davis Hanson Show."
Trump Media and Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes this week, highlighted the importance of depoliticizing the U.S. intelligence agencies as he gears up to chair the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
President-elect Donald Trump tapped Nunes, the former House Intelligence Committee Chairman, for the post earlier in December.
"I believe the reason that he chose me to do it is because I was, you know, I saw the corruption up front and personal," he said on the "Victor Davis Hanson Show." "And so when, when things go wrong, this board is there to have a fresh set of eyes, a fresh look into what these agencies are doing or have done."
"Yeah, so it's, I've described it Victor as something that's very similar to my role when I was chair of the House Intelligence Committee, where I effectively reported to the United States Congress, to the legislative branch of government," he went on. "Here I report directly to the to the President. So it has, it has very extensive powers, and obviously the President can increase those authorities or decrease those authorities, as he see fits. But, you know, look, I feel like he has the confidence in me that that if I see something wrong, that we're going to get to the bottom of it."
Nunes further outlined what he believed to be the root cause of the intelligence community's expansion, politicization, and left-ward shift.
"I believe it's, it's pretty simple as to what's what's happened," he said. "Even though the defense and intelligence industrial complex is bigger than I think Eisenhower ever imagined it could be, and more dangerous. But there's only one word. It's been politicized, and it was politicized on purpose, and the people that live in Washington, D.C., that mostly are part of the left, but as we have found out, it's pretty easy for people who you would think are hard right, that if there livelihood is threatened, they somehow move and team up with the left i.e. the Cheney family."
"I know that the President wants to have a DOJ and FBI and DOD and CIA that America can be proud of," he insisted. "And it's, you know, it's pretty the President sees this pretty simply. And he, he actually campaigned on it. What did he campaign on? Make America safe again, it's not complicated. But in order to do that, you have to have a de-politicized intelligence agency."
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