Chairman Opening Statement The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) will be holding an open hearing on its investigation into Russian active measures during the 2016 election campaign. The hearing will be held at 10:00 am on Monday, March 20 in room 1100 of the Longworth Building. It will be livestreamed on the HPSCI website here. Who: House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) What: Hearing on Russian active measures investigation (Open) When: Monday, March 20,...
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House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes today issued the following statement: “The Committee is satisfied that the Department of Justice has fully complied with our request for information from our March 8 letter on possible surveillance related to Donald Trump or his associates. The Committee still has not received information requested from the CIA and FBI in our March 15 letter that is necessary to determine whether information collected on U.S. persons was misha...
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House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes today issued the following statement regarding the Committee’s Russia investigation: “One of the focus points of the House Intelligence Committee's investigation is the U.S. government's response to actions taken by Russian intelligence agents during the presidential campaign. As such, the Committee will make inquiries into whether the government was conducting surveillance activities on any political party’s campaign official...
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Chairman Nunes and Ranking Member Schiff have approved the Scope of Investigation for the inquiry by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence into the Russian active measures campaign targeting the 2016 U.S. election. While the detailed, six-page scoping document remains classified, the investigation will seek to answer the following questions: What Russian cyber activity and other active measures were directed against the United States and its allies? Did the Russian active measures...
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House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes released the following statement today on the appointment of Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster as National Security Adviser: "I congratulate Lt. Gen. McMaster on his appointment as National Security Adviser. With his history of questioning the status quo and infusing fresh thinking and new approaches into military affairs, Lt. Gen. McMaster will make a fine addition to the Trump Administration's national security team."
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House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes released the following statement today on the resignation of Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor: “Michael Flynn served in the U.S. military for more than three decades. Washington, D.C. can be a rough town for honorable people, and Flynn—who has always been a soldier, not a politician—deserves America's gratitude and respect for dedicating so much of his life to strengthening our national security. I thank him for his ...
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House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes released the following statement today on the Trump Administration’s appointment of Gina Haspel as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency: “I congratulate Gina Haspel, the first woman CIA career officer to be appointed as CIA Deputy Director. With more than thirty years of service to the CIA and extensive overseas experience, Gina has worked closely with the House Intelligence Committee and has impressed us with he...
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House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, former House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen, and Joint Task Force leaders Rep. Brad Wenstrup and Rep. Ken Calvert issued the following statement today in response to the release of the Department of Defense Inspector General report on allegations of the manipulation of intelligence at Central Command: We appreciate the work of the Inspe...
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House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes released the following statement today on the Trump Administration’s executive order on refugees: “Based on my studies of this issue during numerous trips abroad related to intelligence matters, I’ve stated repeatedly that refugee flows from certain war-torn regions pose a serious national security threat to the United States. In light of attempts by jihadist groups to infiltrate fighters into refugee flows to the West, along ...
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Today, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes and Ranking Member Adam Schiff released the following statement: For many years, one of the House Intelligence Committee’s highest priorities has been to oversee the Intelligence Community’s activities to counter Russian aggression, including the cyber-attacks directed against the United States in the last year. As part of this oversight responsibility, the Committee has been undertaking a bipartisan inquiry of these ac...
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