accountable. new york times with this, quote within hours of a jury finding mr. trump guilty last week, the anger conyield into demands for action. since then, the prominent gop leaders have demanded they use every instrument of power again democrats, included targeted investigations and prosecutors. here step miller puts it is every house committee controlled by republicans? in every way, it needs to right now with every republican d.a. to start is every donor off the sidelines and in the game, the rich guys, the wealthy guys? everything facet of republican party politics and power has to be used right-to-now to go toe to toe with marxism and beat these why do you have to talk to jesse waters that way? maybe he knows. i don t know. echoes miller s tirade, trump s comrades in arms in the january 6th bannon said in a text message to the times on tuesday that now is the moment for obscure republican prosecutors around the country to make a name for themselves by pro
i really can t tell you how damaging it is to our national security to have the politicization of the committee. it s very short-sighted of mike johnson to be doing this. the intelligence committee wants to get, and need to, in order to do proper oversight, needs an open and trusted dialogue with the cia, nsa, fbi, the dni, and also it is required to keep its information secret with no possibility of leaks from within. that is what is needed for our national security. whether it is our intelligence community now feeling that it s
Everyone who cares about our national security. in an effort to please donald trump and hang on to his speakership, speaker mike johnson has appointed scott perry and ronnie jackson to the house committee. perry had his phone seized by the fbi as part of an investigation into his role as one of the chief architects of congress to overturn donald trump s defeat. perry was the first to propagate the empirically proving insane theory, and defied as subpoena from the select committee. then there s ronnie jackson is his name. he was demoted as a rear admiral in the united states navy, who the oath keepers were seeking to protect during the insurrection, because the oath keepers believe he, ronnie jackson had, in the words of an oath keeper,
Protecting national security. congressman, i don t think they would pass a background check to be a staffer on the committee. do i have that right? i think that s right. i think they would be thrown out. in fact, i don t think they would even get through a second consideration. it does raise questions, i think about, what is mike johnson doing? you know, democrats felt they owed him in saving his seat. he wouldn t be speaker today. he wouldn t make these appointments but for democratic protect. i wonder how that looks in retrospect. whether it s defending trump, whether it s condemning the results of a free and fair jury of 12 peers, on you now they appointments. i think it gets us insight into who mike johnson is and the
Mike at johnson, speaker of the house couldn t have found two more wingnuts to degrade the intelligence committee as part of the institution for ronnie jackson and scott perry. it s a stunning decision by the speaker, and i think really shows speaker johnson s true colors. he is pandering to the right that makes kevin mccarthy look mod rattle. it s going to make cooperation between counter-intelligence operations and the intelligence services and the congress much more complicated. it s a very bad decision. scott perry seemed to think he was a criminal. let me show you about a