Nunes Opening Statement for Whistleblower Disclosure Hearing September 26, 2019 I want to congratulate the Democrats on the rollout of their latest information warfare operation against the President, and their extraordinary ability once again to enlist the mainstream media in their campaign. This operation began with media reports—from the prime instigators of the Russian collusion hoax—that a whistleblower is claiming President Trump made a nefarious “promise” to a foreign leader. The released...
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Nunes Opening Statement for Mueller Hearing July 24, 2019 Welcome, everyone, to the last gasp of the Russian collusion conspiracy theory, as the Democrats continue to foist this spectacle on the American people as well as on you Mr. Mueller. As the American people may recall, the media first began spreading this conspiracy theory in the spring of 2016 when Fusion GPS, funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton Campaign, started developing the Steele dossier, a collection...
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Washington, DC – Today, U.S. House of Representatives passed, on a strong bipartisan basis, the Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) for Fiscal Years 2018, 2019, and 2020, by a vote of 397 – 31. The bill authorizes funding and enables comprehensive congressional oversight of elements of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). The legislation is named in tribute to two dedicated staff members on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Damon Nelson a...
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Nunes Opening Statement for HPSCI Hearing June 12, 2019 Thank you Mr. Chairman. Here we are, more than two years since Democrats from this committee publicly claimed to have “more than circumstantial” evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russians to hack the 2016 elections, and more than two years since they read false allegations from the Steele dossier into the Congressional record at an open hearing of this committee. After that, the American people were subjected to endless hysteri...
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Washington, DC – Today, The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released the executive summary and recommendations from its bipartisan review of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) roles and missions that was completed in late 2018 under then-Chairman Devin Nunes and then-Ranking Member Adam Schiff, and sent to the Intelligence Community (IC) for declassification review. In Spring 2017, the Committee began a bipartisan study of the DIA as part of its oversight over the organizat...
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Nunes Statement on Mueller Report The Mueller report ignored a wide range of abuses committed during the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign. And now, with the revelation that the Special Counsel was authorized at the outset to investigate Carter Page for allegedly colluding with Russians to hack the election, it’s clear that false allegations from the Steele dossier played a major role not only in the FISA warrant application on Page, but in the appointment of the Special Counsel as well....
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Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence today announced the appointment of their subcommittee ranking members for the 116th Congress. The ranking members include: Defense Intelligence and Warfighter Support Rep. Brad Wenstrup Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research Rep. Chris Stewart Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Rep. Rick Crawford Intelligence Modernization and Readiness Rep. Will Hurd Ranking Member Devin Nunes said, “I thank m...
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Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence issued the following statement today on sending the transcripts of interviews from the committee’s Russia investigation to the Special Counsel’s office. Republicans are happy the Democrats are joining us in reiterating what the Republican-led committee already voted to do in September 2018—make all the transcripts available to the executive branch, including the Special Counsel’s office, as part of the process of publishing them...
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House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes has appointed Safra Catz to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Ms. Catz is the CEO of Oracle Corporation and has served on the company’s board of directors since 2001, having previously served as Oracle’s president and chief financial officer. She is also a director of the Walt Disney Company and previously served as a director of HSBC Holdings plc. Created by the National Defense Authorization Act fo...
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