That group is one part of congress that had managed to keep the crazies out and work together like adults in a room. Now all of that is at risk, which endangers our security going forward, because Johnson pickled two hard right rep flame throwers to the HOIC. Is this payback to maga for their support or wth is he doing? Happy to see pushback, just not sure it is going to be enough if djt is behind this. neither of these two should even be in congress, let alone on the IC. "People are angry": Mike Johnson faces bipartisan uproar over Intelligence Committee picks (msn.com) House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has roiled lawmakers in both parties by appointing a pair of hardline conservatives to the House Intelligence Committee. Committee members fear the presence of Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) threatens to disrupt a hard-fought bipartisan consensus forged in the aftermath of the Trump era. ...... The picks were bound to be inflammatory: Perry's phone was seized by the FBI as part of its Jan. 6 probe, while Jackson has faced allegations of drinking on duty and harassing staff when he was the White House physician. ........................ Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner (R-Ohio) was not looped in on the picks, according to Punchbowl News, nor was Ranking Member Jim Himes (D-Conn.), a source familiar with the matter told Axios. Turner and Himes have worked to salvage the Intelligence Committee's longstanding reputation as a haven from Congress' usual divisiveness.
These two are so far outside the norm for members of that committee that there has to be intent and purpose outside of that of the committee. Are they sentinels for trump - there to provide cover or leak info to him? As a reward for loyalty and deeds done for the former President? Just politics i suppose but on a committee where politics is not normally practiced.
The criminal organization formerly known as the Republican party doesn't care about the long term good of America. Only holding power.
Sober and bipartisan reflection and analysis with the goal of strengthening America is a thing of the past.
