Quote:Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray jointly told the Senate Homeland Security Committee to take a long walk off a short pier. Statements issued by DHS and the FBI made it clear that they have said all they will say in a public setting.

A DHS spokesman released a statement saying:

DHS and the FBI have offered to the Committee a classified briefing to discuss the threats to the Homeland in detail, providing the Committee with the information it needs to conduct its work in the months ahead. DHS and the FBI have already shared with the Committee and other Committees, and with the American public, extensive unclassified information about the current threat environment, including the recently published Homeland Threat Assessment. DHS takes seriously its obligation to respond to Congressional requests for testimony; in fact, Secretary Mayorkas has testified 30 times during his tenure.

The FBI chimed in, too:

The FBI has repeatedly demonstrated our commitment to responding to Congressional oversight and being transparent with the American people. We remain committed to sharing information about the continuously evolving threat environment facing our nation and the extraordinary work the men and women of the FBI are doing — here at home and around the world — to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States. FBI leaders have testified extensively in public settings about the current threat environment and believe the Committee would benefit most from further substantive discussions and additional information that can only be provided in a classified setting.

Committee chairman, Michigan Democrat Gary Peters, was not pleased.

In a shocking departure from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's longstanding tradition of transparency and oversight of the threats facing our nation, for the first time in more than 15 years, the Homeland Security Secretary and the FBI Director have refused to appear before the Committee to provide public testimony at our annual hearing on Threats to the Homeland.

Their choice to not provide public testimony about their departments' efforts to address wide-ranging national security threats robs the American people of critical information and the opportunity for public accountability of what the federal government is doing to keep Americans safe.

Americans deserve transparent, public answers about the threats we face. Secretary Mayorkas and Director Wray’s refusal to speak publicly about their department’s work will only increase the concerns that many Americans have about our nation’s security at a challenging time, flout the Committee’s efforts to conduct responsible oversight, and will deal a serious blow to trust in our government. Their claims that they can only relay such information and respond to questions in a classified setting are entirely without merit.

It cannot be the practice of the Executive Branch to deny the public critical information and disregard Congress’ constitutionally recognized right to conduct oversight. I urge Secretary Mayorkas and Director Wray to honor the commitments they made to appear publicly at this hearing, and to ensure that both Congress and the American people have the opportunity to hear directly about how their agencies are working to protect our national security in an increasingly dangerous world.

On one level, I don't blame the Dynamic Duo for not wanting to show up. The trial of Laken Riley's murderer just wound up (Laken Riley's Family and Friends Give Heartbreaking Impact Statements; Judge Sentences Jose Ibarra), and I can understand why they don't want to talk about immigration. I can also understand that both of these guys know they are leaving office in the next couple of months, and they don't see any use in taking the public beating this hearing would entail.

Paradoxically, this move could boost Trump's upcoming showdown with the Department of Justice, DHS, and the FBI. They are showing themselves to be a pampered, privileged group that doesn't think they have to answer to even a senior senator in the ruling party. I predict this will not work out well when the hammer falls, and they come running to guys like Peters to make the pain go away.

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Firing Comey may have been the single-best personnel decision Trump made while #45. But hiring Wray was indisputably the single-worst.

(11-21-2024 03:33 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Firing Comey may have been the single-best personnel decision Trump made while #45. But hiring Wray was indisputably the single-worst.

...and now from what I hear is that he wants another one like them in Mike Rogers. This would be a totally stupid move and if he goes through with it he's a dumb S. What's the saying, "fool me once, shame on you...fool me twice, shame on me".

Trump better wise up.

(11-21-2024 03:33 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Firing Comey may have been the single-best personnel decision Trump made while #45. But hiring Wray was indisputably the single-worst.

Nah. Sessions was the worst. None of the DOJ nonsense would have happened if he had picked Barr first. And he wouldn't have lost the Alabama senate seat. Then Kelly was next. Then Mattis. Then Tillerson.
There were a lot of bad picks.

Mayorkas and Wray are short timers. Who cares what they do.

To busy shredding files and bleach bitting hard drives.

(11-21-2024 04:34 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  Mayorkas and Wray are short timers. Who cares what they do.

We need to subpoena both of them and let them refuse. I believe both of them have already ignored subpoenas.

I expect to see our spineless Republicans refuse to push for contempt charges against both for refusing to appear.

Republicans are useless for anything but keeping Democrats out of office.

Sounds like they need 4 months in prison like Bannon.

(11-21-2024 04:38 PM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote:  To busy shredding files and bleach bitting hard drives.

Exactly…..

(11-21-2024 03:33 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Firing Comey may have been the single-best personnel decision Trump made while #45. But hiring Wray was indisputably the single-worst.

I believe it was Chrispy Kreme that recommended Wray, he's as much a swamp critter as Comey ever was, he's just a lot smarmier.

Mayorkas "testified" 30 times and never once managed to say anything worthwhile. Compete and utter failure.

Much like this entire disaster of an administration. Dudes in stolen dresses wearing screaming make-up in the Cabinet overseeing Nuclear waste... GTFOH

Make it end

59 more days

Gym Jordan, Line 1.

Tom has really lost it.

(11-21-2024 05:00 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  Tom has really lost it.

No substance lately. Gotta keep that post count up though.

(11-21-2024 05:02 PM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote:  

(11-21-2024 05:00 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  Tom has really lost it.

No substance lately. Gotta keep that post count up though.

Yep. He mad. Way grumpier than normal. A thing of beauty.

Wray and Mayorkas can both choke on an overflowing sack of swamp cocks. Wray has the most punchable face on the planet and Mayorkas looks like the adult "Calliou", with his ugly big, round head. Both are partisan and obstructionist anti-American cucks. May permanent pink-eye and jock-itch infections plague them for eternity.

(11-21-2024 11:54 PM)ODUsmitty Wrote:  Wray and Mayorkas can both choke on an overflowing sack of swamp cocks. Wray has the most punchable face on the planet and Mayorkas looks like the adult "Calliou", with his ugly big, round head. Both are partisan and obstructionist anti-American cucks. May permanent pink-eye and jock-itch infections plague them for eternity.

Ha, you're right about Wray. Every time I see that swamp rat, I just wanna mess up his perfect hair, and then punch him in the face.

(11-21-2024 11:37 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(11-21-2024 05:02 PM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote:  

(11-21-2024 05:00 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  Tom has really lost it.

No substance lately. Gotta keep that post count up though.

Yep. He mad. Way grumpier than normal. A thing of beauty.

It’s going to be a long, hard four years for all the lefties here. TDS is really starting to set in with those who had a bad case of it bad in 2016. I keep hoping we’ll see a vaccine developed that will restore these people to some sense of normalcy.

Unfortunately I suspect it may be terminal for some. Safe spaces aren’t working any more than masks in the shower or at the beach.

When prices start dropping and guys stop wearing dresses demanding to be called a woman, they’ll lose their minds. Forever resigned to watching reruns of Keith Olbermann, Maddow and The View in some padded room in a safely Blue ghetto like Detroit or DC.

Mayokras has already started to cut a deal to get immunity for anything he could be prosecuted for.. that's odd.

(11-22-2024 05:10 AM)CardinalJim Wrote:  

(11-21-2024 11:37 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(11-21-2024 05:02 PM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote:  

(11-21-2024 05:00 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  Tom has really lost it.

No substance lately. Gotta keep that post count up though.

Yep. He mad. Way grumpier than normal. A thing of beauty.

It’s going to be a long, hard four years for all the lefties here. TDS is really starting to set in with those who had a bad case of it bad in 2016. I keep hoping we’ll see a vaccine developed that will restore these people to some sense of normalcy.

Unfortunately I suspect it may be terminal for some. Safe spaces aren’t working any more than masks in the shower or at the beach.

When prices start dropping and guys stop wearing dresses demanding to be called a woman, they’ll lose their minds. Forever resigned to watching reruns of Keith Olbermann, Maddow and The View in some padded room in a safely Blue ghetto like Detroit or DC.

Enjoy their misery! I know I sure am

They don't even recognize their own misery. All they can say is "JUST YOU WAIT TILL 2026!"