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House Intelligence Committee to Hold Open Hearing on Intelligence Community Support for DOD

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Chairman Devin Nunes and Ranking Member Adam Schiff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) announced today that the Committee will hold an open hearing to examine the scope of support that the Intelligence Community provides for the Department of Defense. The hearing will be held at 9:30 am on Thursday, November 17, in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office…

Nunes Statement on Reopening of FBI Investigation of Hillary Clinton Emails

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House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes issued the following statement about the FBI’s decision to reopen its investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server: “Since tens of thousands of emails traversed Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized server, including 30,000 that she deleted to avoid disclosure, it’s no surprise…

Thornberry, Nunes warn of Russian Nuke Violations

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Reps. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), and Devin Nunes (R-CA), Chairmen respectively of the House Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, this week urged the White House to take seriously Russian breaches of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, implement promised sanctions, and develop military options to confront new Russian weapons. In the letter the Chairmen assert that Russia…

Chaffetz, Nunes Statement on New FBI Files from Clinton Investigation

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Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) released the following statement and summary findings after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released additional files related to its investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. "We find Under Secretary…

Nunes Introduces Bill to Lengthen Diplomatic Foreign Service Tours

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House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to extend the tour of duty of certain American officials serving abroad from 2 years to 4-6 years. The bill, the Foreign Service Optimization Act of 2016, would affect Foreign Service Officers, defense attachés, and civilian employees of the Defense Intelligence…

Nunes Urges Faster Declassification of bin Laden Documents

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House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes sent a letter yesterday to top Intelligence Community officials requesting updates and materials related to the trove of documents seized during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The letter, addressed to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Central Intelligence Agency Director…

Nunes Issues Statement on Domestic Terror Attacks

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House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes issued the following statement on the bombs planted in New York and New Jersey yesterday and the stabbing attack in Minnesota: “The United States suffered terrorist attacks in New York, New Jersey, and Minnesota yesterday. We do not yet know for certain who perpetrated these attacks or whether they were coordinated,…

Intelligence Committee Approves Snowden Report

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The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence today unanimously voted to adopt an investigative report on Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who fled to China and then Russia after stealing 1.5 million classified documents. The result of a two-year inquiry, the report describes Snowden’s background, likely motivations, and methods of theft, as well as…

Intel Committee Republicans Object to Latest GITMO Release

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House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes today sent a letter to President Obama, signed by fourteen Members of Congress including all thirteen Republican members of the Intelligence Committee, objecting to the Obama administration’s recent transfer of fifteen detainees from the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba to the United Arab Emirates.  Noting that…