OAN’s Sophia Flores
12:45 PM –Wednesday, February 14, 2024
House Intelligence Committee Chair Representative Mike Turner is urging President Joe Biden to declassify all information that is considered a “serious national security threat.”
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On Wednesday, Turner (R-Ohio) made a statement after the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence made classified information regarding a serious national security threat available to all members.
“I am requesting that President Biden declassify all information relating to this threat so that Congress, the Administration, and our allies can openly discuss the actions necessary to respond to this threat,” he added.
Turner and the White House have remained extremely vague about what the threat actually entailed, however, a source who has personally seen the documents confirmed that, “it is, in fact, a highly concerning and destabilizing” Russian capability “that we were recently made aware of.”
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan had previously met with top legislators on national security committees prior to Turner making his public comments.
He was visibly frustrated with Turner as he stated that he “was a bit surprised Turner came out publicly today.”
“I am a bit surprised that Congressman Turner came out publicly today in advance of a meeting on the books for me to go sit with him alongside our intelligence and defense professionals tomorrow. That’s his choice to do that,” Sullivan said.
“All I can tell you is that I’m focused on going to see him, sit with him, as well as the other House members of the Gang of Eight tomorrow, and I’m not in a position to say anything further from this podium at this time, other than to make the broad point that this administration has gone further, and in more creative, more strategic ways, dealt with the declassification of intelligence in the national interest of the United States than any administration in history,” Sullivan continued.
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