House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries has resubmitted Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff to be placed on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), despite notice from House Speaker Keven McCarthy that Swalwell and Schiff would not be permitted.
Due to the sensitivity of the House intel committee, there are special rules permitting the Speaker to assign or reject nominations without a House vote, so this effort by Jeffries is political posturing.
WASHINGTON DC – The head of House Democrats has submitted Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) to sit on the powerful Intelligence Committee, setting up a battle with Republican leaders who are vowing to keep them off the panel.
Separately, Democrats this week are also expected to seat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, according to a source familiar with the Democrats’ plans, which will likely prompt GOP leaders to hold a floor vote to remove her.
In a letter sent Saturday to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Schiff, the top Democrat on the Intelligence panel, and Swalwell are both “eminently qualified” to continue their service on the committee. Jeffries requested that McCarthy seat them there.
“Together, these Members have over two decades of distinguished leadership providing oversight of our nation’s Intelligence Community, in addition to their prosecutorial work in law enforcement prior to serving in Congress,” Jeffries wrote.
Unlike most committees, however, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has special rules empowering the Speaker to assign the panel’s members, in consultation with the minority leader. That means McCarthy can also decline to seat members without relying on a full House vote. (read more)
Everyone here seems to have forgotten how his confirmation went and the compromises he had to make with the Freedom Caucus. Of course he won’t cave and let them on. To do so would be to breach permanently his relationship with the Freedom Caucus, resulting in an immediate call for a vote to replace him as Speaker.
Damn right!!
One of the first “tests” for Kevin, with many more to come. Let’s pray that Kevin remains true to his commitments.
Screw you, Jeffries!!
I wouldn’t be so polite myself!
Jeffries is a bonafied soicialist.
Is that what they call BLM Stalinists these days?
How long does it take to say…NO!!!
Hold the line! Is that even possible with these rino wienies?
highly unlikely.
I really have my doubts….
“I really have my doubts”
that a savvy DC guy like McCarthy who LOVES the game of politics and has always wanted to be Speaker isn’t giddy about getting this chance to say “NO”? I agree!!!
Obviously Kevin will choose to become a hero, get great conservative media coverage and guest appearances on FOX.
Who on earth would seriously imagine optics aware, competitive Kevin would cave around arch villains Swallwell and Schiff which would trigger a humiliating do over of his Speaker election which needs only one vote?
Who would seriously imagine Kevin, whose conscious that every House member is gearing up for this years primary races wants to be put on blast by President Trump and risk becoming Lizard Cheney 2.0?
Doomers will hopefully learn to turn their frets and fears into prayers before they make themselves and others sick with worry.
Pull a Nancy and pick two of your choice Kevin; just like Nancy installed Adam Klinger and Lizzy Borden on the J6 committee.
Remember: There are RINOs that are Democrats, but there are NO Democrats that are Republican!
Exactly. You can get the No. 3 Republican in the House leadership to turn on their party and join the D’s. You won’t get ONE single Democrat, no matter how low on the totem pole, to help the Republicans. Getting a DC Democrat to attack another Democrat is like pulling teeth. But DC republicans will race to the nearest TV camera to attack Trump or a Republican that’s “Too conservative”.
As payback, I hope the R’s impeach Biden. But mark my words, if they do, Schumer will not act like McConnell did with the Trump impeachments. McConnell pretended the impeachments were “serious business” that had to approached will solemnity and due process. thereby granting them legitimacy. If the R’s impeach Biden, Schumer will laugh, attack it as “Partisan nonsense” and despose of the whole thing in a one-day trial. Which is what McConnell SHOULD have done.
Senator Paul needsvto replace mitch as GOP Senate “Leader”. Shame on Kentucky for electing mitch.
DID they?….an honest question….Did KY actually “elect” Turtle again?
Only with a Trump endorsement…
Make public all the lies that Schifforbrains and Swallowswell told during the impeachment hearings
Iff McCarthy allows it, it means he believes he has the votes to continue as Speaker even after a no confidence call for another Speaker.
McCarthy will continue spitting facts and truth like this .
It’s good to hear this spoken out loud to the public.
The fact that the media, knowing the truth about Swalwell, sees fit to question why he has been removed from the intelligence is sad.
IMESHO, there should be an investigation into Swallow’s “foreign relations “.
I love it, we will now see how much power McCarthy thinks he has without the backing of the Freedom Caucus. I will greatly and pleasantly surprised if McCarthy does not bend to the will of the communists members of the House. Not doing what he is told to do by Jeffries will be considered racist.
Fortunately, being called a racist no longer works unless the target wants it to work.
McCarthy doesn’t want muh racist accudations to work, so if used on him it won’t work. And when it doesn’t work, Kevin will become even more popular.
And Kevin knows this.
When do Dhimmierats ever describe other’s actions anything but racist? Screw this infantile Marxist.
Jeffries should screw him self,
the committee Swalwell and Schiff was nothing But lies Resting Taxpayers,
kevin McCarthy should kicking out of committees both,
These two particular men – Schiff and Swalwell – are among the most odious people anywhere on that committee. Look them in their shifty eyes and you can see the slime. They ooze corruption. From that lofty position they have consistently acted to protect official lawbreakers from prosecution and to intrude in every say into the private lives of citizens. Which is precisely why the Democrats want them to remain on, and why McCarthy wants them off. They are both “fixers.”
Jeffries is blatently satanic and has been assigned his role in instigating the coming civil war.
He will receive his!
“Assigned his role in instigating the coming civil war”.
Fortunately, trying to do something =/= succeeding.
Only blood and horror craving NWO psychopaths and those they’ve duped through their sophisticated 24/7 psyops are pushing for muh ciViL wAr.
Sounds like Jefferies all right.
The Democrats fight. They are consistent. And they take no prisoners. It’s time the Republicans realize that and stop treating them like worthy contemporaries. All Republicans should show the same fighting spirit as “The Twenty”. Otherwise, the Democrats will bully them into submission even when they don’t have the official majority. I say “official” because the Democrats even in the minority have the majority through the aid of the media. The media amplifies the effect of Democrats beyond their actual number.
Some fighters, like “The 20” played the outsider good cops and reaped the glory.
Other fighters, like MTG, played the insider bad cop and endured the hate.
Both the good cops and bad cops were, as usual, on the same MAGA team and had the same MAGA coach, PDJT.
Art of War. Art of the Deal.
“I will teach them how to win” — DJT
A solid NO to liars and those who sleep with spies!
Complying with this request would make KM’s speakership the shortest in history.
Showdown is a euphemism for Clown World Theater.
LOL… “House Intel Committee”
There Is No Oversight: The NSA Withheld Documents From Intelligence Committee Heads
Mar 28th 2014
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140327/08140826708/there-is-no-oversight-nsa-withheld-documents-intelligence-committee-heads.shtml
There has never been effective oversight of the NSA’s bulk collections programs, or indeed, intelligence agencies in general. There’s been a lot of noise made about this vaunted oversight in defense of programs revealed by leaked documents, but this is nothing more than a talking point.
At The Big Picture, a clip of Sen. John D. Rockefeller (then Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence) discussing how oversight actually works has been posted. It’s from an interview given in 2007, about the time the FISA Amendments Act was being put together to replace the expiring Protect America Act. The amendments act, among other things, extended the length of warrantless surveillance and gave telecoms retroactive immunity for their participation in the NSA’s bulk collections.
Here’s Sen. John D. Rockefeller explaining why, even back in 2007, intelligence agency oversight was a joke.
DAVIS: Reports quote administration officials as saying this is going on and it’s being done in a way to avoid oversight of the Intelligence Committee. Is there any way—
ROCKEFELLER: They’ll go to any lengths to do that, as we’ve seen in the last two days [during hearings on FISA].
DAVIS: Is there anything you could do in your position as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee to find answers about this, if it is in fact going on?
ROCKEFELLER: Don’t you understand the way Intelligence works? Do you think that because I’m Chairman of the Intelligence Committee that I just say I want it, and they give it to me? They control it. All of it. ALL of it. ALL THE TIME. I only get – and my committee only gets – what they WANT to give me.
Audio clip:
[audio src="http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/mt-static/images/Rockefeller.mp3" /]
Right before the Iraq war, I sat one person to the right away from Senator Rockefeller when he came to speak informally to my Poli Sci department. The whole experience was very strange as the guy tried to tell our group he came from an Apolitical family. I said I was from Cleveland and he quickly changed the subject to Iraqi WMD.
The POS described how he received intelligence briefings and information. He went to a secured location in the basement of the Senate building. He had to empty all content from his pockets, could take no writing or recording mechanisms, and entered alone to view the information provided by the Intelligence Agencies.
He was convinced by the evidence Iraq was the head of the terrorist snake. My takeaway in early 2003 was the Agencies could guide conclusions.
Any moron would have know the WTC attack originated in Iran and Saudi. To turn on their paymasters didn’t suit the swamp.
I am waiting to hear, ‘Just cut their funding!’ , and laugh to myself that likely other countries’ intel would just pick up the tab anyway. That or crank up the sideline businesses.
I would like to see McCarthy refuse to seat any democrat on any committee. Let the democrats scream and cry about it and try to stop him, that is what democrats do. Rules? We don’t need to follow no stinkin’ rules. McCarthy could then use committee appointment to extract all kinds of concessions from the dims.
That is what a strong, conservative leader would do so there is little chance we would see something like this from McCarthy. Too bad.
I really like that! At the very least, only appoint one Dem.
And, BTW, what is and why is Omar on a foreign relations committee? She’s hardly a grateful American citizen!
Perfect for the Dhimmierats then.
Only the majority party is allowed to be on any committee == “what a strong conservative leader would do”?
What would that “conservative leader” be conserving?
Our Founders vision of a representative democracy guided by our Constitution and Declaration of Independence? Or Pelosi corrupt reign of horror?
Payback is a beothch! Lookin’ at you Pelosi!!!!!
With the background noise of this “looming struggle” and many more to come … keep an eye on Hakeem Jefferies with respect to 2024.
He is being groomed as the next Comrade Obama by the democrat party. He is 53 years old vs Comrade Obama’s 62. Plus, Comrade Obama does not want to be the “visible” hand of the puppet masters any longer as it’s now too comfortable rotating between his 4 x multi-million dollar places of residence (DC, Martha’s Vineyard, Hawaii and Chicago). Plus, his “public” star power has waned as was shown by his inability to move the needle in more than few local elections.
Hakeem sees this as his job interview for the job.
Country is tired of race baiting monkeys who have positions of power based on affirmative action.
Just release the fbi briefing on swalwell
The real test of McCarthy’s sincerity comes when he say no and then forces a show down whereby he presents the “evidence” per House rules for refusing their seats on committees.
This would be akin to a grenade set-off in a room packed with democrat politicians and DoJ allies. Forcing them to spin all sorts of tales and denials, especially those from the DoJ.
Maybe the dems can find a judge to force the republicans to put them on the committee.
ever hear of the separation of power….judiciary CANNOT tell the legislative how to conduct business
“Eminently qualified” to lie. I don’t care how much time on the committee both had. Colluding with the Chinese and outright lying and pushing Russian collusion against an innocent President Trump, even to this day by watermelon head is UNFORGIVABLE.
Democrats will throw their underwear against the wall till they stick.
Speaker McCarthy can swat down this request like mother nature knocks down those stupid democrat electricity windmills.
Congressman Hakeem Skyhook can resubmit ’til the cow come home but those three sniveling thieves and liars should not be allowed on ANY committee as long as the republicans control the House.
So NOW let us just see where the RINO McCarthy really stands here. Will he fold like the cheap suit he has been in the past, or will he Stand like a Man? YES I have an opinion on it….
Obviously, Kevin, despite what all the doomers and doubters say, is savvy and competitive enough to “covfefe”.
Just another golden opportunity to expose Schiffty and Bangwell’s corruption. These guys KNOWINGLY lied continually to the American Public and forced an false narrative down our throats. They have put us through 6 years of hell to where we are today.
McCarthy should write an open letter to Jeffries outlining Schiffty’s massive collection of lies and corruption over the last 5 years with RussRussRuss and the faux impeachment.
Then he should remind everyone of Bangwell’s corruption with RussRussRuss and his activities with a Chionese honeypot spy and subsequent compromised position
Open letter. Public humiliation … again … for Schiffty and Bangwell.
Kick their asses out of Congress, not just the committees. As McCarthy said, “Swalwell’s FBI report shows he shouldn’t be anywhere near C0ngress, and Schiff is just an F’ing liar and communist like Swalwell.
Given the records of these two men, ANY objective observer would support banning them from the Intel Committee. Jeffries is signalling that he DOES.NOT.CARE. People need to understand, the DC Democrats won’t be stopped by being “nice” or appealing to “Norms and Traditions”.
The Republicans in DC know this. If McConnell is constantly “reaching across the aisle”, its not because he believes the D’s will return the favor, its because he’s really a Democrat underneath the Republican label.
Just say NO, Kevin. And then publicly release more of their past dirty deeds.
submit them both and Ilman to the Ethics committee for investigation for past deceptive practices taken AS a congress critter
Man, I detest these evil cretins.
This party is a nightmare. The Dem Plague!
Intelligence is a “select” committee. Speaker has ultimate say over reps from opposite party. Nasty Nan blocked Jordan and Banks from select J6 committee.
It’s like my friend keeps saying “elections have consequences.”
Shifty Schiff needs to be kept off ALL committees- until he shows the public the evidence he saw “with his own eyes” that proved Trump colluded with Russia (oh! wait! the Russian Dossier was bought and paid for by Hillary as a fictional piece of Democratic crap and EVERY Democrat knew it)…….If Schiff’s lips are moving, he’s lying!
If he stands firm and tells the dems no, national voters will support McCarthy’s political future.
Idiots on an intel committee? Makes sense only to a democrat.
“Together, these Members have over two decades of distinguished leadership providing oversight of our nation’s Intelligence Community, in addition to their prosecutorial work in law enforcement prior to serving in Congress,” Jeffries wrote.
Speaker McCartthy should say: “no they don’t!”
Tell Hakim to pound sand. Nancy’s rules you know …
Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff want to be placed on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). Ok sit them both at the childrens table down the hall of the Committee room. Leak all the lies and secret documents, interviews ,texts, emails from these two traitors to the press and let them explain themselves. Then proceed towards congressional expulsion of these two clowns.