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FBI, DHS leaders decline to testify publicly about threats facing US

2024-11-22

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] FBI Director Christopher Wray and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday declined to appear publicly before a U.S. Senate committee to discuss national security threats, provoking the ire of the panel's Democratic chairman.

In a statement, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Gary Peters called their refusal to publicly testify a "shocking departure" that runs counter to 15 years of precedent.

"Their choice to not provide public testimony about their departments´ efforts to address wide-ranging national security threats robs the American people of critical information and the opportunity for public accountability of what the federal government is doing to keep Americans safe," Peters said in a statement.

In a statement, the FBI said the bureau remains "committed to sharing information about the continuously evolving threat environment facing our nation," but that the FBI believes the committee "would benefit most from further substantive discussions and additional information that can only be provided in a classified setting."

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Traditionally for more than a decade, top officials from the FBI, DHS and the National Counterterrorism Center have appeared publicly before both the House and Senate homeland security committees to discuss threats facing the United States.

Earlier this week, the House Homeland Security Committee announced that its own hearing on the subject, featuring Wray and Mayorkas as witnesses, was being postponed until December.

These hearings would have marked the first time that Wray and Mayorkas appeared before Congress since Republican Donald Trump won the election on Nov. 5.

Trump has vowed to shake up both agencies once he takes office on Jan. 20.

Posted by:Skidmark

#18 /\ Well said !

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-11-22 20:03

#17 With respect, and with no disrespect with the term 'Normie*', no you are not. By simply lurking at Rantburg before participating, I changed. Then I had a front row seat to a national issue with The Greensburg Tornado and started calling Bullshit!

At times I miss being a Normie 20 some years ago, but then I come across someone who has a dear issue and I can participate and surprise the hell out of my company.

I present the current cultural and political climate prior to and post election as evidence that there are fewer Normies.

*And there is nothing wrong with just doing your life, getting home and doing home things, and going with the flow. BUT....Education is Freedom. "Letting it Ride" is how we get California, or New York, Chicago, so on.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-11-22 19:59

#16 I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m pretty sure I’m a normie.

Posted by: trailing wife 2024-11-22 19:38

#15 I think Grom has it, or worse trip up and get plugged for perjury. Either way, the cat gets out of the bag.

Either way, much easier and safer to flip the bird and downsplain that you already know enough because we told you so, even if it is a show the ass move.

But I think for us here, it all but confirms everything except the exact number of FBI agents involved in the Jan 6 crowd and the bus full of sappers. What they don't want is normies to catch on.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-11-22 18:53

#14 current threat environment
Has been internalized

Posted by: Frank G 2024-11-22 18:43

#13 Shouldn't the public know about threats facing the US (other than the Orange Man destroying democracy)?
Or is this 'why should we just verify what the conspiracy theorists have been saying all along'?

Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-11-22 18:37

#12 Marokas and Wray blew off the meeting. A spox was reported at Axios as saying: "An FBI spokesperson said in a statement that the agency's leaders have "testified extensively in public settings about the current threat environment and believe the Committee would benefit most from further substantive discussions and additional information that can only be provided in a classified setting." Judging from other presentations by this pair, it would have a worthless use of time. The only value would have been to subpoena them before Congress and hang a contempt charge on them if they didn't show up.

Posted by: JohnQC 2024-11-22 18:35

#11 I see no downside to SB's cmnt at #9.

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-11-22 16:29

#10 Just wait until real FBI Crime Statistics, Real Illegal Immigration numbers, real inflation numbers... start getting published.

Posted by: Airandee 2024-11-22 16:08

#9 Deciding not to testify when called on by Congress sounds like voluntary resignation to me.

Posted by: Silentbrick 2024-11-22 12:22

#8 Top Trump aide shoots down Mike Rogers FBI rumors: 'Not happening'

Posted by: Frank G 2024-11-22 11:02

#7 Like the plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan?

Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-11-22 10:57

#6 Peaceful transition for thee but not for us in the deep state?

Posted by: JohnQC 2024-11-22 10:31

#5 They are kind of busy right now. Only 2 months to implement whatever anti-Trump schemes they have in the works, plus they need to sanitize incriminating computer files and documents.

Posted by: SteveS 2024-11-22 09:52

#4 Need more time to groom their next "FBI Stops Attack" sucker.

Posted by: Mercutio 2024-11-22 08:49

#3 Fire the SOB's.

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-11-22 08:17

#2 ^Taking the fifth?

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-11-22 03:43

#1 The FBI and DHS leaders won't testify publicly about national security threats before the Senate

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-11-22 03:37

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