GOP uses threats hearing to air political, personal grievances

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee used the panel’s first public hearing in five years on the United States' most dire global threats to air a range of domestic grievances to intelligence and law enforcement leaders Thursday — from the prosecution of former Trump administration official Michael Flynn to the Steele dossier to antifa.

The session came a day after the same agency chiefs appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee to discuss issues including China’s push for global influence, President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and two recent hacks that have impacted the country.

But the House panel's top Republican, California Rep. Devin Nunes, set the tone for Thursday's session in his opening statement, when he offered an alternative explanation for the intelligence officials' reluctance to hold these threats hearings in public during Donald Trump's presidency. (They were afraid of running afoul of Trump by disagreeing with him, as POLITICO first reported.)

“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, and the 2016 election, among many other issues,” said Nunes, whom Trump had awarded the prestigious Medal of Freedom award for his defense of the administration.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-uses-threats-hearing-to-air-political-personal-grievances/ar-BB1fGIJQ

Devin Nonuts who else?

[Bev54]

1. I have been watching this hearing and it is evident

The republicans are still trying to live in their past grievances, including when Nunes tells the committee that Mueller did not find any "collusion" between Russia and the Trump campaign, on the same day the sanctions against Russia made it very clear that Manafort was colluding with a Russian Intelligence agent and providing campaign information. Republicans are proving they are not legitimate in their concerns for the American security. Another repub went on and on about ANTIFA being a terrorist organization and would not allow Wray to confirm it is not an organization but a movement with some regional organization but not national.

[riversedge]

2. and so many of these Repugs keep getting reelected.