A Republican member of the House Oversight Committee disagrees with Chairman Trey Gowdy's assessment that the FBI had an "obligation" to chase leads on possible foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election, even if it meant sending an informant to contact members of President Trump's 2016 campaign.

During an interview on Fox News on Thursday, Rep. Ron Desantis, R-Fla., said "deploying surveillance powers" against an "opposition party's campaign" is "not normal."

"And I think that is not what Americans want the FBI to be doing," he added.

DeSantis is aligning himself with Trump, who has dubbed the matter "spygate" while claiming the Obama administration may have scoped out his campaign for political purposes.

Several Republicans in Congress joined a push led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., demanding documents about the confidential source. Several leaders from both sides of the aisle took part in briefings last week with Justice Department and intelligence officials about the informant, who has been identified by media reports as Stefan Halper, a former University of Cambridge professor.

Gowdy, R-S.C., was among those briefed, and afterwards participated in multiple interviews over the past couple days in which he said he didn't see any evidence of the FBI doing anything wrong.

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“I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got, and that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump,” Gowdy said Tuesday evening on Fox News.