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A former Republican counsel to the House Intelligence Committee thinks it’s “nuts” that House Speaker Mike Johnson named hard-right GOP Reps. Scott Perry and Ronny Jackson — both of whom tried to help overturn the 2020 presidential election — to the chamber’s powerful intelligence committee. Perry, of Pennsylvania, was “central to the plan of Jan. 6,” former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified in front of Congress. But Hutchinson’s testimony apparently didn’t dissuade Johnson from naming Perry to the intelligence committee Wednesday. Jackson, of Texas, meanwhile, is a self-described …

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