Intelligence Committee

U.S. Reps. Bradley Byrne, Mo Brooks and Gary Palmer of Alabama joined a group of more than two dozen House Republicans who stormed a closed-door impeachment hearing Wednesday, putting an end to the deposition of a top Defense Department official.  Byrne in a video he tweeted afterward said he’d just come from a room “where … Continued

Congresswoman Terri Sewell, D-Selma, was appointed to Chair the House Subcommittee on Defense Intelligence and Warfighter Support. The Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, announced the subcommittee assignments for the 116th Congress. Sewell will serve as the chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Defense Intelligence and Warfighter Support. In addition, Sewell … Continued

Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell, from California, will visit Huntsville on Labor Day 2018 and will appear with Congressional candidate Peter Joffrion (D) at a town hall and a press conference on Monday, September 3, Labor Day. Joffrion will welcome Rep. Swalwell to North Alabama during a Town Hall on Monday, Sept. 3, at 3:30 p.m., … Continued

U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, plans to vote against President Donald Trump’s controversial pick to lead the CIA, Gina Haspel, his office said in a statement Tuesday. Haspel, a longtime CIA intelligence official, ran a CIA prison in Thailand in 2002 when a captured Al Qaeda detainee, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who was accused of orchestrating a … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Alabama’s Congressional delegation reacted mostly positive towards the decision to release a classified memo dealing with the investigation of a former Trump campaign staffer to the public. Friday, President Donald Trump approved the request of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to declassify a classified memo provided to … Continued

By U.S. Representative Bradley Byrne I always appreciate the opportunity to get out of Washington, D.C. and spend time with the people I represent in Congress. Our most recent District Work Week was unfortunately cut short by the frivolous government shutdown, but thankfully I was still able to get back to Southwest Alabama for a … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Politcal Reporter Monday, March 20, 2017, the US House Intelligence Committee held hearings into allegations that President Obama ordered a wiretap of, then candidate, Donald J. Trump’s phone, as well as whether or not Russian government operatives may have conspired with the Trump campaign to convince American voters to pick Donald … Continued