Republican Sens. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee and Tom Cotton of Arkansas led the group of GOP lawmakers who wrote to the FBI director, including Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott of Florida, Josh Hawley of Missouri, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz of Texas and Joni Ernst of Iowa.
Mr. Hagerty accused Mr. Kahl of disclosing classified information on social media.
“While privately leaking national security information is an unfortunate and damaging pastime of the Washington Swamp, nominee Colin Kahl reached new lows when he used social media to publicly disclose classified information and to brag about how sitting U.S. government officials had confirmed with him the details of classified information,” Mr. Hagerty said in a statement. “These disclosures are extremely concerning and warrant a complete FBI investigation to determine the full scope of the nominee’s mishandling of sensitive national security information, apparently for his own perceived political gain.”
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The legislation emerged in response to recent claims of an increase in attacks and harassment of Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus was first detected in Wuhan, China, in 2019. Ambiguous and incomplete statistics on Asian hate crimes, however, raise questions about whether the problem is getting worse.
“This isn’t some kind of gotcha legislation. This is legislation that our times demand,” Mr. Schumer said of the bill, which would, among other measures, issue nonbinding national guidance “to mitigate racially discriminatory language in describing the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, told reporters Monday that he considered the proposal “a messaging vote.” A day later, he said the bill’s fate would depend on the amendments to it.
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