Press Releases

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,… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

A Congressional joint task force (JTF) investigating allegations of intelligence manipulation at U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) released an initial report today detailing persistent problems in 2014 and 2015 with CENTCOM analysis of U.S. efforts to train the Iraqi Security Forces and combat the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The JTF found that intelligence products approved… Read more »

In London yesterday, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes met with Liam Fox, Britain's Secretary of State for International Trade, to discuss ways to maintain and expand US–UK trade ties following the British vote to withdraw from the European Union. Chairman Nunes expressed his support for a new US–UK free trade agreement, pointing to a recent resolution… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes issued the following statement today on the terrorist attack in Nice, France: “The horrific massacre in Nice is yet another attack not only on the people of France, but on the entire free world. Modern civilization is under siege by savage terrorists who seek to impose their ruthless, barbaric… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), under the direction of Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA), approved publication of a newly declassified section of the 2002 Joint Congressional Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001.   Following a… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes issued the following statement today about the FBI’s decision to recommend that Hillary Clinton not be prosecuted for mishandling classified information: “According to Director Comey, the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton has revealed ‘extremely careless’ handling of classified information by… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes issued the following statement about today’s terrorist shooting in Orlando: “The initial indications clearly point to the Orlando shooting being an ISIS-inspired act of mass murder – one that is gruesome even by ISIS’s sickening standards. These mass killings of innocent people cannot be stopped… Read more »

The House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) for Fiscal Year 2017 on a bipartisan 371-35 vote. The bill (H.R. 5077), which passed unanimously out of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on April 29, ensures that the programs and activities of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), including Department of Defense (DoD)… Read more »