Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., on Tuesday took aim at Rep. Devin Nunes, D-Calif., for Nunes’ push for the Justice Department to provide access to a secret FBI informant.
"What Devin Nunes is doing and what a couple of my Republicans are doing is they are sending a signal around the world that some quirky, completely fact-less investigation may cause you as an informant or you as a CIA asset to be exposed," said Himes on CNN’s "New Day."
"That is going to make us profoundly less safe abroad and at home," said Himes, a member of the House Intelligence Committee that Nunes chairs.
Himes’ comment came after President Donald Trump and the Justice Department reached a deal for the inspector general to look into claims of FBI wrongdoing in the Russia probe, The Hill reported.
Protecting informants is vital in keeping people safe, Himes said.
Anchor Alisyn Camerota asked if Himes was comfortable with Nunes seeing the secret information. “Of course I’m not. Nobody should be. Devin Nunes, for a year now, has acted as the defense attorney for President Donald Trump. He’s thrown every variety of spaghetti on the wall, and it goes back to trying to help the president prove that (Barack) Obama tried to wiretap him in Trump Tower, to the unmasking scandal, to the Steele dossier being the start of the investigation. All of that stuff turned out to be 100 percent false,” Himes said.