To the Editor:

Re “G.O.P. Leader Puts New Spin on Wiretaps” (front page, March 23):

The dog and pony show of misdirection and obfuscation continues with the bizarre decision of the House Intelligence Committee’s chairman, Representative Devin Nunes, to brief the White House and the press regarding conversations of Trump aides that were picked up “incidentally.”

The House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians before the election, is headed by a man who served on the executive committee of the Trump transition team.

Huh?

And now he runs to the White House and the press with “leaked” information before showing it to the Democrats on his committee? (He has since apologized for that.) This information serves as a distraction that makes our president under investigation feel “somewhat” vindicated, which is total nonsense when this information could have come from the White House itself.

This would be like Senator Sam Ervin, investigating the Watergate break-in, going to the Nixon White House to brief the president on information he had received.