Rep. Nunes Blasts Democrats For ‘Hijacking’ Intelligence Committee To Target Republicans As ‘Domestic Extremists’
April 15, 2021 By Jordan Davidson
Republican Rep. Devin Nunes of California slammed Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday for engaging in and focusing on partisan actions against U.S. citizens instead of bigger threats around the world.
“We have to see the world the way it is, not the way we want it to be or what is convenient for perverted political narratives,†Nunes said during the committee’s annual public World Wide Threats Hearing. “The intelligence community has a crucial task of defending our national security from foreign threats, but the increasing politicization of this apparatus risks becoming a threat to our national security in and of itself.â€
In the press release announcing the hearing, Democratic Chairman Adam Schiff claimed the Trump administration “discarded the tradition of open hearings on World Wide Threats, when it displeased the former president to have his preferred views of rival nations contradicted by agency heads.†Nunes, however, said this characterization is not only false but purposefully misleading.
“The real reason Trump officials didn’t want to participate is that, for years, the committee’s Democrats hijacked our open hearings to advance conspiracy theories on the Trump administration being filled with Russian agents who colluded with Putin in the 2016 election, among many other issues,†Nunes explained.
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