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Byron York: End could be near for House investigation of Trump-Russia investigators washex.am/2R6xs6Z

“Republicans on Capitol Hill have added enormously to the public's understanding of what happened in the Trump-Russia investigation. They're still doing it. But it will come to a screeching halt if the GOP loses control of the House in next month's midterm elections.”

Americans know several things about the conduct of the Trump-Russia probe that they would not have had Nunes and colleagues not tackled the subject.

1) The important role that the incendiary allegations in the still-unverified Trump dossier played in the FBI's investigation of the Trump campaign.

2) The fact that the dossier was commissioned and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party.

3) The unusual circumstances surrounding the formal beginning of the FBI's counter-intelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.

4) The troubling deficiencies in the FBI's application for a warrant to wiretap onetime Trump campaign figure Carter Page.

5) The anti-Trump bias of some of the top officials in the FBI investigation.

6) The degree to which the dossier's allegations spread throughout the Obama administration during the final days of the 2016 campaign and the transition.

7) Obama officials' unmasking of Trump-related figures in intelligence intercepts.

8) The fact that FBI agents did not believe Michael Flynn lied to them in the interview that later led to Flynn's guilty plea on a charge of lying to the FBI.

9) The role of the opposition research firm Fusion GPS in the Trump-Russia probe.

And more.

Nunes and the others performed a public service by investigating something no one else was investigating. The Senate Intelligence Committee conducted the big, bipartisan, flagship congressional probe into the Trump-Russia matter.

Special counsel Robert Mueller, with full law enforcement powers, investigated Russian meddling, whether any Trump people were involved, and the question of whether the president attempted to obstruct the investigation.

But no one wanted to investigate the investigators, even though their conduct cried out for scrutiny.

The work is not yet done. These days, a joint group from the House Judiciary and Oversight committees is conducting interviews with several figures in the Trump-Russia matter.

None of this has been bipartisan. The work has been done by Republicans and opposed by Democrats. And if Democrats win control of the House, as a number of polls suggest they will do, it will stop immediately.

YIKES.

If Democrats win, Rep. Adam Schiff, who has opposed nearly everything Nunes has done, will become chairman of the Intelligence Committee. Rep. Jerrold Nadler will head the Judiciary Committee. And Rep. Elijah Cummings will take over the Oversight Committee.

Schiff has promised to investigate aspects of Trump-Russia that committee Republicans would not -- a move that would target the president but also likely duplicate the work of other investigators.

Schiff also mentioned what he said were "serious and credible allegations the Russians may possess financial leverage over the president, including perhaps the laundering of Russian money through his businesses."