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Republicans boycott House Intel hearing

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), who chaired Wednesday’s hearing, called the GOP boycott a “sad and dangerous” break from the committee’s long history of “compartmentalizing” politically charged feuds to handle the nuts and bolts of intelligence work.

“That Rubicon has been crossed,” he said, calling the GOP’s letter “as wrong-headed as it is mendacious.”

Himes attributed the GOP gambit to bitterness over the House’s impeachment effort, which the Intelligence Committee led throughout the fall. Schiff engineered a process that led to 17 top White House, State Department and Pentagon officials testifying about Trump’s effort to press Ukraine to investigate his Democratic rivals. The committee’s final report on the matter included phone records that indicated Nunes had been in touch with Trump associates involved in the Ukraine effort.

Schiff has previously indicated that his panel would continue the Ukraine probe in the aftermath of impeachment, but after last week’s acquittal by the Senate, the panel has yet to take any public moves to indicate the probe is continuing.

Source: politico.com
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