![]() ![]() ![]() Key GOP lawmaker notes DeSantis voted to raise debt ceiling Roy Blunt says Merrick Garland confirmation would’ve been ‘mistake for him. ĭeSantis blasts debt ceiling deal he says leaves US ‘careening toward. Trump wishes happy Memorial Day to those fighting ‘misfits and lunatic. Ritchie Torres: ‘The deal is bad,’ but default ‘much worse’ Supreme Court preview: the major decisions still to come Trump retakes lead from DeSantis in California GOP primary poll Texas lawmakers send anti-DEI bill to Abbott’s desk McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal Trump escalates attacks on judges amid increasing legal scrutinyįeinstein expressed confusion over Kamala Harris presiding over Senate: reportĬruz condemns sweeping anti-gay Uganda law as ‘horrific’ and ‘wrong’ĭeSantis Disney governing board appointee quits a few months into job will continue to conduct effective, fact-driven oversight of the Intelligence Community.” “I’m sorry that Judiciary Committee Republicans publicized unexamined allegations on an incomplete record. “Jordan’s claim that the CIA promoted this letter is not justified by his investigation,” House Intelligence Committee ranking member Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said in a statement last week. And Cariens has not yet been interviewed under oath. ![]() In a document last week sharing excerpts of transcripts with other witnesses, Democrats noted that Cariens responded to an email request from a former CIA employee to sign the letter eight minutes later. “If accurate, this information raises fundamental concerns about the role of the CIA in helping to falsely discredit allegations about the Biden family in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election,” Turner and Jordan wrote in the Tuesday letter to the CIA director.ĭemocrats on the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees say Republicans’ concerns are misleading. Former CIA employee David Cariens wrote in a 2023 email that a publications review board employee, in a phone call while approving one of his books, told him about the letter and asked if he wanted to sign. The agency’s Prepublication Classification Review Board (PCRB) approved the letter via email in a standard process.īut based on an email from one of the signatories, Republicans are probing whether at least one active CIA employee was involved in getting signatures for the letters. Republicans have argued that suppression of the story on social media and former intelligence officials pushing back on the story likely influenced the election in its final weeks.Ĭommittee Republicans investigating the origins of the letter released a report last week on findings that included a message from now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken, then a Biden campaign adviser, to former CIA acting Director Michael Morell prompted Morell to draft the letter. But the former intelligence officials noted that they did not have evidence of Russian involvement, and contents of the hard drive were later authenticated by other news outlets. The letter is part of the House GOP’s probe into suppression of news about the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive obtained by former President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani and then reported by the New York Post in the weeks before the 2020 election.įifty-one former senior intelligence officials signed a letter that warned the report’s contents and emails “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” - a letter that now-President Biden referenced in a debate against Trump. In response to the letter, a CIA spokesperson told The Hill: “We remain committed to working with our Congressional oversight committees and providing them the information they need to do their work.” ![]()
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