Zhi Zhu 🕸️Jun 17, 2024

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) "appointed #Perry and #Jackson partly because former president #DonaldTrump urged him to do so...

#Trump repeatedly and unusually vilified the #intelligence community as president, insisting that it had unfairly targeted him during the 2016 campaign, most recently describing the #Justice Department at last week’s gathering with #HouseRepublicans as “dirty, no-good bastards.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/17/mike-johnson-donald-trump-intelligence-committee-scott-perry/

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Mike Johnson’s Intelligence Committee choices anger some GOP lawmakers

Speaker Mike Johnson named two controversial members to the House Intelligence Committee — Reps. Scott Perry and Ronny Jackson — sparking concerns about politicizing a crucial committee. He did so partially because Donald Trump wanted him to.

The Washington Post
Show threadZhi Zhu 🕸️Jun 17, 2024

“[Johnson] has reversed course on this committee, and has now made it #political again. He has reversed all the advances, which could harm America’s preparedness,” one high-ranking #Republican said. “This is not a place to play games. This is not a place to appease somebody. This is where you got to do the real work.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/17/mike-johnson-donald-trump-intelligence-committee-scott-perry/

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Mike Johnson’s Intelligence Committee choices anger some GOP lawmakers

Speaker Mike Johnson named two controversial members to the House Intelligence Committee — Reps. Scott Perry and Ronny Jackson — sparking concerns about politicizing a crucial committee. He did so partially because Donald Trump wanted him to.

The Washington Post
Show threadZhi Zhu 🕸️Jun 17, 2024

"The #Intelligence Committee regularly receives highly #classified briefings on sensitive #NationalSecurity matters affecting the country...

“...once you get down in the [sensitive compartmented information facility] & you read the volume & the seriousness of the threats that face this country, and the ill intent that our adversaries truly have for us & our way of life, it’s often a game-changing experience...” said Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/17/mike-johnson-donald-trump-intelligence-committee-scott-perry/

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Mike Johnson’s Intelligence Committee choices anger some GOP lawmakers

Speaker Mike Johnson named two controversial members to the House Intelligence Committee — Reps. Scott Perry and Ronny Jackson — sparking concerns about politicizing a crucial committee. He did so partially because Donald Trump wanted him to.

The Washington Post
Show threadZhi Zhu 🕸️Jun 17, 2024

"Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.)... brought up his worries with Johnson... After hearing that Rep. David Joyce also had reservations, Johnson tried to assuage the moderate Ohio Republican by telling him that... the former president wanted those lawmakers to be heard.

Joyce wasn’t convinced. “You appease those people, what gives everybody else the reason to do the right thing by encouraging bad behavior?” he said."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/17/mike-johnson-donald-trump-intelligence-committee-scott-perry/

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Mike Johnson’s Intelligence Committee choices anger some GOP lawmakers

Speaker Mike Johnson named two controversial members to the House Intelligence Committee — Reps. Scott Perry and Ronny Jackson — sparking concerns about politicizing a crucial committee. He did so partially because Donald Trump wanted him to.

The Washington Post
Show threadZhi Zhu 🕸️Jun 17, 2024

"Perry, a former chairman of the #FreedomCaucus and a chief #Trump loyalist... also played a role in Trump’s efforts to overturn the #2020election, according to witnesses who testified before the House #Jan6 panel. The #FBI seized Perry’s phone in 2022 as part of the #Justice Department’s investigation into the effort to reverse the election results.

#Intelligence members consider Perry’s comportment more problematic than his ties to Jan. 6."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/17/mike-johnson-donald-trump-intelligence-committee-scott-perry/

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Mike Johnson’s Intelligence Committee choices anger some GOP lawmakers

Speaker Mike Johnson named two controversial members to the House Intelligence Committee — Reps. Scott Perry and Ronny Jackson — sparking concerns about politicizing a crucial committee. He did so partially because Donald Trump wanted him to.

The Washington Post
Show threadZhi Zhu 🕸️Jun 17, 2024

" #Trump and the congressional #MAGA faithful have been seeking greater influence on top committees, including #Intelligence, which oversees the #CIA, the #FBI and other agencies and whose members are briefed on #TopSecret intelligence matters. Hard-line lawmakers, including #Perry, recently voted against reauthorizing a part of the #Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, claiming the intelligence community is actively spying on Americans, though the law forbids it."

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"But the #Intelligence appointments, & the naming of Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.), a Freedom Caucus member, to the House Armed Services Committee, have greatly rankled the faction of #Republicans who want the #House to function better, known as the governing wing. Many fear that the inclusion of hard-line perspectives could block key legislation from reaching the floor for a vote, causing the House to grind to a halt, as the far-right has done before"

#Obstructionism #GOPObstructionism #GOP #News

Jun 17, 2024 at 3:43pmWeb
Show threadZhi Zhu 🕸️Jun 17, 2024

"placing hard-line colleagues on #Intelligence will follow a pattern that has played out on other key panels. Freedom Caucus members on the #House Appropriations Committee filled funding bills with extreme provisions that #moderates could not support on the floor last year, while three hard-liners on the House #Rules Committee blocked a #border security bill from getting a floor vote"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/17/mike-johnson-donald-trump-intelligence-committee-scott-perry/

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Mike Johnson’s Intelligence Committee choices anger some GOP lawmakers

Speaker Mike Johnson named two controversial members to the House Intelligence Committee — Reps. Scott Perry and Ronny Jackson — sparking concerns about politicizing a crucial committee. He did so partially because Donald Trump wanted him to.

The Washington Post
Show threadRobert TaylorJun 17, 2024
@ZhiZhu yup just look at Ratcliffe!