House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) announced Thursday morning that he is temporarily stepping aside from leading a committee probe into Russia’s influence on the 2016 presidential elections.
Fox News correspondent Adam Housley reported Friday that a well-known and “very senior” former official in the intelligence community, not associated with the FBI, directed the unmasking of private Americans working for or with President Donald Trump’s presidential transition team.
Monday on the Senate floor, Minority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) called on Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) to replace Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) as House Intelligence Committee chairman. Schumer said, “Chairman Nunes is falling down on the
The leaders of the House intelligence committee are giving the NSA, FBI, and the CIA until Friday to reveal how many Americans’ identities were unmasked during surveillance activities in the last six months, which they believe happened to President Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
The chairman of the House Permanent Committee on Intelligence told reporters at the Capitol Monday he has yet to see evidence of contacts between President Donald Trump’s campaign and individuals in the Russian government or part of its extensive network of affiliated persons.
President Barack Obama has been very slow to notice and react to Russia’s aggressive hacking operations, says Rep. Devin Nunes (R.-Calif.), the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
The report contradicts the popular image of Snowden as a Robin Hood stealing government secrets and sharing them with the uninformed for the greater good.
A Capitol Hill source familiar with the request by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for a briefing on Russian cyber-attacks told Breitbart News the Central Intelligence Agency refused the invitation to update members.
The incoming Senate Minority Leader told hosts of TV’s CBS This Morning that he is pleased Sen. Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) supports calls for a congressional investigation into possible Russian tampering in the 2016 presidential election, but he does not want it to become political, like what happened with Benghazi.
Rep. Devin Nunes sent a letter to the two men who lead the Pentagon and the nation’s coordinated intelligence agencies, asking them to explain why media reports claim administration officials are trying to oust Admiral Michael Rogers from NSA.
The change to the rule, proposed by Nunes, would add another step to the process of removing a speaker.
