By Jeremy Coumbes on March 12, 2021 at 2:21pm
18th District Congressman Darin LaHood is now a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
LaHood was appointed today to serve on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence by Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy.
The committee oversees the nation’s intelligence agencies including components of the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, State, Treasury, and Energy.
LaHood said in the announcement, he will be able to utilize his expertise on terrorism and finance to help advance the work of the House Intelligence Committee.
Before coming to Congress, Rep. Darin LaHood worked as a state and federal prosecutor, as well as an assistant U.S. attorney where he was recognized by both the Department of Justice and FBI for his work in fighting terrorism as the Chief Terrorism Prosecutor.
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The abuses and excesses by the American surveillance and law-enforcement communities in the years leading up to the mid-1970s prompted setting up of committees to reform the intelligence set-up. Let’s take a look and see whether we have an answer to the question once posed by the Roman satirist Juvenal:
Qui custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will guard the guards?)
A few House and Senate committees were formed after reports of surveillance abuse came into light. (Image: danielo/Shutterstock)
Let’s begin by acknowledging the complementary role played by the courts. The leading case here is titled
United States v. United States District Court, better known as the Keith case.
US slaps sanctions on 7 Russian officials over attempted assassination of Alexei Navalny
Navalny, 44, was sickened by the Russian nerve agent Novichok in an attack that the US and others linked to Putin s security services.
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Washington: The United States on Tuesday announced sanctions on seven senior Russian officials over the attempted assassination of opposition leader Alexei Navalny using a nerve agent, and his subsequent jailing.
The sanctions are the first announced by the Joe Biden administration against associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The US intelligence community assesses with high confidence that officers of Russia’s Federal Security Service used a nerve agent to poison the opposition leader on August 20, 2020, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.
How the world reacted to US report implicating Saudi Crown Prince in Khashoggi murder
The vocal critic of Mohammed Bin Salman, Jamal Khashoggi was mysteriously murdered in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2018
By Usama Hazari| Updated: 1st March 2021 9:00 pm IST Jamal Khashoggi.
Hyderabad: The latest U.S. intelligence report, which claimed that the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the operation to kill or capture journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has drawn reactions from across the world with several people calling for action against the Crown Prince.
A vocal critic of Mohammed Bin Salman, Jamal Khashoggi was mysteriously murdered in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2018. The former advisor to the Saudi government and US-based journalist was living in a self-imposed exile since 2017.