GOP Pushes to Defund New DHS ‘intel experts’ Group Featuring ‘spies who lied’; GOP Aims to Shut Down DHS Intelligence Board with Embattled Former Obama Officials; Top GOP Reps Probe Mayorkas Over DHS Board With Ex-Intel Officials Who Signed Hunter Biden Laptop Letter
GOP pushes to defund new DHS ‘intel experts’ group featuring ‘spies who lied’:
Two House Republicans want to kill the recently unveiled “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group” — featuring three former top spooks who questioned The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop bombshell.
Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) and Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) unveiled legislation Tuesday to strip funding for the group and prevent the establishment of a similar committee in the future.
“Tens of thousands of migrants are flooding our southern border daily while the Biden Administration wastes its resources setting up an ‘Experts Group’ with the likes of James Clapper and John Brennan,” Pfluger, who chairs the Homeland Security Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence Subcommittee, said in a statement.
The Department of Homeland Security announced the formation of the panel last week, ostensibly to help buttress the department’s national security apparatus.
Three of the 17 “experts” — former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former CIA senior operations officer Paul Kolbe — signed an open letter in October 2020 that stated The Post’s reporting on the contents of the now-first son’s laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
“These men abused their positions of power perpetuating the Russia Hoax and serving as partisan operatives for the Democrat Party,” Pfluger said.
Shortly after the group was announced, Green and Pfluger penned a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas raising “serious concerns” about the department’s “impartiality and objectivity.” —>READ MORE HERE
GOP aims to shut down DHS intelligence board with embattled former Obama officials
House Republicans said Wednesday they will try to shut down a new Homeland Security intelligence panel, whose members include several Obama administration figures who spread disinformation about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The chief targets are James Clapper, who was director of national intelligence, and John Brennan, who ran the Central Intelligence Agency. They took part in an effort during the 2020 campaign to castigate Hunter Biden’s laptop as a Russian disinformation plot, when in fact it was authentic.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas earlier this month named them to his new Homeland Intelligence Experts Group.
Rep. August Pfluger, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee’s subcommittee on intelligence, said the panel is a waste of resources and its members are an embarrassment.
“These men abused their positions of power perpetuating the Russia Hoax and serving as partisan operatives for the Democrat Party,” the Texas Republican said.
Mr. Mayorkas formed the experts panel to be a source of private sector wisdom. He said they will help Homeland Security’s counterterrorism efforts. The panel will meet four times a year.
Mr. Brennan and Mr. Clapper were both part of a letter signed by dozens of former intelligence pros in October 2020 saying disclosures from the laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” —>READ MORE HERE
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