Democratic leaders on the House Ethics Committee seem to be purposefully protracting the current probe into whether Obama administration officials leaked classified intelligence reports in order to tarnish Trump and his associates. 

Intelligence Committee Chair, Republican Devin Nunes, was interviewed by the Free Beacon and says he was sidelined from his leading role in the investigation months ago: 

Democrats are said to be blocking efforts to advance the Nunes case in an effort to discredit the top Republican and keep him sidelined from the sensitive Russia probe, which Democrats have increasingly used to score political points against Trump and boost their own political profiles.

As the Ethics Committee investigation into Nunes drags on, Rep. Ted Deutch (D., Fla.), the top Democrat tasked with leading the ethics probe, appears to have prejudged the case in the media, prompting further accusations that the Nunes probe is being politicized in order to boost the unsubstantiated Democratic narrative about collusion between Trump and Russia, according to U.S. officials and other sources familiar with the matter.

In March, just before the probe into Nunes was launched, Deutch indicated the top Republican was guilty of compromising classified information as part of Nunes's effort to expose the Obama administration's unmasking of sensitive information about Trump associates—the very charge Deutch is now tasked with investigating in his role on the Ethics Committee.

"It's hard to see how the Intelligence Committee can move forward and do the job that it needs to do on behalf of the American people when the chairman behaves in a way that seems to put partisanship above getting all of the facts here," Deutch told NPR. "When the chairman of the committee decided to share some information, first with the speaker, then rushing to the White House to share it with the president—information that appears to be classified information—it makes it hard for people to have confidence in his ability to move forward. That's why there needs to be an independent investigation."

"Deutch said he wanted Nunes off the Russia probe, and he's used the Ethics Committee to make that happen and prolong the investigation to keep Nunes under an ethical cloud," an official told the Beacon.

Hypocrites until the bitter end.