Category: House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Democrat Himes Backs Republican Push to Declassify Intelligence on Origins of COVID

During testimony on March 7, the top Democrat in the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said that he would support a GOP-led measure that would require the Biden administration to declassify details about possible connections between the coronavirus pandemic and China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. In the House Rules Committee hearing, Rep. Jim Himes…


Jordan, Turner Renew Demand for Interviews Over Statement Warning Hunter Biden Laptop Has ‘Earmarks of Russian Disinformation’

Pressure is ratcheting up on signers of a controversial October 2020 statement alleging that the Hunter Biden laptop bore “all the classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation” to agree to on-the-record transcribed interviews with investigators for the House Judiciary Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. “The Committee on the Judiciary and…


Republicans Renew Demands for Interviews With Ex-Intel Officials Who Discredited Hunter Biden Laptop as ‘Disinformation’

Pressure is ratcheting up on signers of a controversial October 2020 statement alleging that the Hunter Biden laptop bore “all the classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation” to agree to on-the-record transcribed interviews with investigators for the House Judiciary Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. “The Committee on the Judiciary and…


Ohio’s Mike Turner Becomes Chairman of the Powerful House Intelligence Committee

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy on Jan. 23 officially appointed Mike Turner to serve as chairman of the powerful House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), a committee that oversees 17 national security agencies. In the previous Congress, with the GOP the minority party in the House, Turner held the title of Ranking Member of the committee. Turner,…