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WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security declined to testify publicly at a scheduled Senate hearing Thursday on global national security threats, a break from precedent following years of open testimony before the panel.

“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,” Sen. Gary Peters, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, said in a statement.

The Michigan Democrat said it was the first time in more than 15 years that an FBI director and Homeland Security secretary had refused to offer public testimony at the annual committee hearing focused on threats to the homeland, calling it a “shocking departure” from tradition.

A separate hearing scheduled for Wednesday before the House Homeland Security committee also was postponed.

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The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that they and the FBI offered to speak to the committee in a classified setting and emphasized the amount of unclassified information they’ve already shared publicly

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The security threats are coming… from WITHIN the House!

[–] just_another_person 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's pretty much my read. "I'm not going to testify to YOU people about the shit YOU people have been doing".

It's almost like the committee members want to know what Intel these agencies might have on their activities 🤔

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But it could only be incompetence or showmanship that makes them want it presented to the public. Most likely the second. They want to put the FBI in a position where they can make the FBI look incompetent, because the FBI isn’t allowed to publicly discuss the parts that make them appear competent and reasonable.

[–] just_another_person 10 points 2 months ago

Or election related things tied to foreign agencies. They've practically been bragging about it.

[–] Bookmeat 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Really? Because they offered to testify in a classified setting, just not in public.

[–] just_another_person 1 points 2 months ago

Lol. Simple.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

yeah, but not only are they coming from whithin the house, a majority of americans voted for the threats themselves, and the FBI and DHS don't want to be compelled to say that publicly with the threats about to take power and wipe their agencies out from the ground up, the leaders of the FBI and DHS don't posses that sort of courage (because it's falling on deaf ears, the public, again having just voted for the bad guys knowing they were bad guys)

[–] homesweethomeMrL 6 points 2 months ago

and has named South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to succeed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Majorkas.

jeeezus cartwheelin christ