Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee boycotted a hearing on emerging technology and national security, calling it a “distraction” and contending that the panel should be focused on “urgent and critical concerns”
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee boycotted a hearing Wednesday on emerging technology and national security, calling it a “distraction” and contending that the panel should be focused on “urgent and critical concerns” like a recent watchdog report identifying errors and abuses in the FBI’s domestic surveillance program.
“Given the committee’s access to highly sensitive information, it is concerning that you prioritize publicity events rather than the more productive work that occurs in the committee’s classified spaces,” they wrote, in a missive led by ranking member Devin Nunes and signed by the panel’s eight other Republicans.
“That Rubicon has been crossed,” he said, calling the GOP’s letter “as wrong-headed as it is mendacious.”
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