(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the House intelligence committee, announced on Monday he is filing $150 million lawsuit against The McClatchy Company and others for conspiracy and defamation.

“This is a case about character assassination and a public company that weaponized its powerful pen and used it as a terrible sword,” the lawsuit states in its introduction.

According to the lawsuit:

Throughout 2018, McClatchy and its reporter, MacKenzie Mays, acting in concert with a Virginia political operative and her handlers, schemed to defame Plaintiff and destroy his reputation. The central purpose of the scheme was to interfere with Plaintiff’s Congressional investigation of corruption by the Clinton campaign and alleged “collusion” between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election.

Using the enormous power of McClatchy’s nation-wide resources, McClatchy and its co-conspirators relentlessly attacked Plaintiff both in print and digitally -– falsely and…