Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) has scheduled a hearing for next Thursday on foreign cyber threats to the United States, which will include discussing allegations against Russia, Politico reported Friday. An unnamed committee aide also confirmed the meeting to CNN.
The Arizona senator invited James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, Admiral Mike Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, and Marcel Lettre, the undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence to the hearing, the aide told CNN.
The news of the hearing comes just a day after President Barack Obama announced new sanctions against Russia in response to allegations of hacking during the presidential campaign.
As CNN pointed out, this hearing marks a major divide already between President-elect Donald Trump, who has said it was time to “move on” from the election, and members of his own party who have advocated for a tougher posture towards Russia.
OK I’m just a simple country boy who doesn’t always see what’s behind the Washington shadow puppetry but this sure seems like a giant “fuck you” to Trump and an effort to get the current intelligence community’s views on this shit into the record before the new gang comes in.
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McCain’s way of announcing that he won’t be running again.
(And the spittle-flecked tweets Trump is about to unleash should be priceless…)
In addition to Clapper Gramps should call Rudy Giuilani since Rudy has deemed himself the resident expert on Russian hacking and how “politicized” the intelligence folks are. After all, his boss knows more than they do right off cuz of his bigly brain that can barely be contained in his skull it’s so bigly …believe me, I guarantee it personally.
Sheesh!!!
Wait… McCain just won re-election. He’s in for 6 more years of Sunday TV hob nobbing with Senator Graham. Pretty soon they’ll hafta wheel him around in a wheelchair as he’ll be close to 90 soon.
Your move, Twitter Boy.