President Donald Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) during a White House ceremony on Jan. 4. The White House said in a statement that Nunes “began to unearth the crime of the century” when, as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee in 2017, he began probing possible misconduct by President Barack Obama’s administration during the 2016 election. Nunes uncovered that the unsubstantiated dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele was funded by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, the White House said in a statement. He learned a top Department of Justice official was married to one of the document’s main researchers, and also found that the Obama administration had issued secret warrants to spy on Trump’s campaign and unmasked several current or former campaign associates, according to the statement. “Devin Nunes’s courageous actions helped thwart a plot to …