The House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes admitted on Friday that he did not view the underlying intelligence on which he based a memo that accuses the FBI and the Justice Department of improperly surveilling Trump associates during the 2016 election.

Hours after the memo came out on Friday, Nunes gave an interview on Fox News during which anchor Bret Baier asked him if he wrote the memo. “Yes,” Nunes replied, saying other Republican lawmakers, like House Oversight Committee chair Trey Gowdy, also contributed.

“Did you read the actual FISA applications,” Baier asked, referring to the documents that the memo cites in part as evidence of improper conduct by US law-enforcement officials.

“No, I didn’t” Nunes said.

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