Tag: House Intelligence Committee

Intelligence Chiefs Testify to the House on Worldwide Threats to the US

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray, National Security Agency Director Paul Nakasone, and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Scott Berrier testify at 10:00 a.m. ET on March 9 on worldwide threats to U.S. security to the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee’s annual hearing. …


Open-Source Intelligence Issue Comes Up During House Intel Committee Hearing

The issue of utilizing open-source intelligence came up with varying viewpoints during a Feb. 28 House Intelligence Committee hearing about the state of the U.S. intelligence community and how it can be improved. Open-source intelligence is information that is publicly available through media outlets, the Internet, and other public mediums. Amy Zegart, a senior fellow…


US Congressional Committees Have Been Infiltrated by Socialist Members

The new speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, recently removed Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee because of national security concerns. Trevor Loudon argues that more members should be removed from a variety of congressional committees because they don’t have America’s best interests in mind. …


House Intelligence Committee Chair Says ‘Grave Concern’ Over Contents of Biden, Pence Classified Documents

House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said on Jan. 29 that there is “grave concern” about the contents of classified documents found at the homes of President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence, adding that the discoveries suggest a “systematic problem” in the way that classified documents are handled among those at the highest levels…


Rep. Jeffries Nominates Schiff, Swalwell for Intelligence Committee Despite McCarthy’s Vows of Removal

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has nominated Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) for seats on the House Intelligence Committee, despite Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) repeated promises to keep them off that panel. In the last Congress, Schiff served as chairman of the committee. Swalwell was also a member. “I write today…


Rep. Swalwell Accuses Speaker McCarthy of ‘Political Vengeance’ Over Planned Committee Removal

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) holds that he did nothing wrong in his associations with a suspected Chinese spy and that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) vow to remove him from his committee assignments was an act of “political vengeance.” In December 2020, Axios broke the story that Swalwell had been targeted by a Chinese national…


Schiff’s Office Frequently Sought Removal, ‘Deamplification’ of Content on Twitter: Twitter Files

Staff members of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) “wrote to Twitter quite often” to seek the suppression and removal of content they disagreed with, according to journalist and “Twitter Files” author Matt Taibbi. In a Twitter thread posted Jan. 13, Taibbi supplemented previous revelations regarding the former House Intelligence Committee chair’s privileged relationship with Twitter with…


Failure to Go After DOJ for Illicit Spying on Kash Patel Highlights Fundamental Flaw in Durham Probe | Truth Over News

The old Romans had a saying: Who watches the watchmen? We’ve used the phrase for generations to question and challenge authority. But now it looks like we will have to change the old saying to: Who watches the watchmen who watch the watchmen? We’re talking about the recent disclosure that, when former House Intelligence Committee…


Musk Signals Support for Congressional Probe Into FBI’s Alleged Censorship Efforts

Following the latest revelations from the “Twitter Files,” Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk indicated on Dec. 20 that he would support a congressional investigation into the FBI’s alleged efforts to censor social media users. On Monday, author Michael Shellenberger presented the seventh installment of the Twitter Files exposé, sharing internal documents from the social…


US Should Have Spied on Chinese Health Officials From Pandemic’s Onset: House Democrats

The United States “took too long” to commence espionage efforts against Chinese health officials to learn more about the COVID-19 pandemic from the outset, according to Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee. In a declassified report (pdf) released Dec. 14, committee members credit intelligence agencies with their early warnings of a potential pandemic but…