Lawmakers reacted with anger at the homeland security chief and FBI director.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas looks on as FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the House Committee on Homeland Security hearing about"Worldwide Threats to the Homeland" on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on Nov. 15, 2023.Top officials from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security on Thursday drew bipartisan fire for declining to testify in public at a Senate hearing on "worldwide threats" and instead offering to testify in a classified setting.
"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 and FBI Director have refused to appear before the Committee to provide public testimony at our annual hearing on Threats to the Homeland," Chairman Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat, said in a statement.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, center at the National Veterans Day Observance at the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Nov. 11, 2024."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," a the spokesperson said in a statement.
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