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House Intelligence Committee Requests Documents and Interviews Regarding White House Efforts to Suppress Climate Change Testimony

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Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a letter to Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) Assistant Secretary Ellen McCarthy to request documents and interviews regarding prepared written testimony of Dr. Rod Schoonover, a senior analyst in the Office of the Geographer and Global Issues at the State…

House Intelligence Committee Announces Open Hearing on the Counterintelligence Implications of the Mueller Report

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Washington, DC – As part of a series of open hearings on the Mueller Report, on Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 9:00 am, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence will hold an open hearing — “Lessons from the Mueller Report: Counterintelligence Implications of Volume 1.” The Committee will hear testimony from Stephanie Douglas and Robert Anderson, both former Executive…

House Intelligence Committee To Hold Open Hearing on Deepfakes and AI

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Washington, DC – On Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 9:00 am, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence will convene an open hearing on the national security challenges of artificial intelligence (AI), manipulated media, and “deepfake” technology. This is the first House hearing devoted specifically to examining deepfakes and other types of AI-generated synthetic…

House Intelligence Committee Releases Report on Defense Intelligence Agency

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Washington, DC – Today, The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released the executive summary and recommendations from its bipartisan review of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) roles and missions that was completed in late 2018 under then-Chairman Devin Nunes and then-Ranking Member Adam Schiff, and sent to the Intelligence Community (IC) for declassification…

House Intelligence Committee to Hold Open Hearing on National Security Implications of Climate Change

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Washington, DC – On Wednesday, June 5, 2019 at 8:30 am, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence will convene an open hearing about the national security implications of climate change. During this hearing, the Committee will examine the impacts of a changing climate and associated extreme weather events on U.S. security interests and on economic, political, social, and…

Chairman Schiff Response to Special Counsel Mueller's Statements on Conclusion of Investigation

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LOS ANGELES, CA – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement: “First and foremost, I want to thank Robert Mueller for his lifetime of public service, not just as Special Counsel, but also as a Marine, at the Department of Justice, and as FBI Director. Only someone of his caliber and integrity…

Chairman Schiff Statement on Trump Order Allowing Selective Release of Classified Information for Political Gain

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement: “The President’s order conferring new authorities over classified information held by the Intelligence Community is a corrupt escalation of the President’s intention, with the assistance of the Attorney General, to weaponize and…

House Intelligence Committee to Hold Open Hearing on Diversity and Inclusion in the Intelligence Community Thursday

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Washington, DC – On Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 9:00 am, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence will hold an open hearing about diversity and inclusion in the Intelligence Community. This is the first open hearing the Committee has held on the subject in more than a decade. While there has been some improvement in recent years, the demographic profile of the IC workforce…

Chairman Schiff Statement on Release of Michael Cohen Testimony and Documents

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Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence voted to release Michael Cohen’s testimony and related exhibits to the public by a vote of 12 – 7. Afterwards, Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) made the following statement: “With the completion of Special Counsel Mueller’s work and the release of his report, it is critically important that the Committee, and the Congress, make…

House Intelligence Committee to Hold Open Hearing on China’s Digital Authoritarianism Thursday

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Washington, DC – On Thursday, May 16 at 9 am, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence will hold an open hearing on China’s emerging digital authoritarianism and global influence operations targeting the United States and its partners. Under President Xi Jinping’s leadership, China is deploying on an unprecedented scale a pervasive surveillance network that harness advances…