Republicans consider moving Jim Jordan to House Intelligence Committee

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Source: cbs





November 5, 2019 / 9:52 AM / CBS News

Washington — As the impeachment inquiry enters its public phase, top Republicans in the House are weighing whether to temporarily assign Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the panel that will conduct the initial public hearings. Discussions about adding Jordan to the committee are "active and serious," a senior Republican involved in the process told CBS News.

Jordan, currently the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee and an outspoken defender of President Trump, has essentially led Republican efforts in the closed-door impeachment proceedings thus far, where three committees have been able to participate. His top investigator, Steve Castor, has conducted the bulk of witness questioning.

If Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy were to temporarily assign Jordan to the Intelligence Committee, he would have to make room for him by removing a current member. The move would also undermine Devin Nunes, the committee's top Republican. McCarthy has sole discretion over Intelligence Committee assignments.


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[wryter2000]

1. Jim Jordan and intelligence

A contradiction in terms

[patphil]

12. That's what I was thinking...a true oxymoron.

[Yavin4]

23. Well, Jordan is a moron

and he probably uses Oxy. So, it fits.

[patphil]

31. exactly!

[C_U_L8R]

2. There should be a quiz

or some minimal proof of intelligence.

[wryter2000]

3. LOL

I posted a few seconds before you

[Thomas Hurt]

4. One weasel on the committee isn't enough?

[lastlib]

8. Hey! Stop insulting weasels! The Mustelidae family is HIGHLY offended by the comparison.

They are noble, INTELLIGENT creatures compared to Gym-rat Jordan and "Devil" Nunes, who together have the alpha-wave output of a rutabaga. They don't deserve to be demeaned like this.

[sdfernando]

21. I won't insult weasels...

I promise...so long as you stop insulting rutabagas.

[lastlib]

25. point taken!

[Mike 03]

5. What ever happened to the punishment Schiff and Pelosi asked the sergeant-at-arms

to give to the republicans, including Jordan, who violated the SCIF with cellular devices? Why does Jordan still have a security clearance at this point?

[ResistantAmerican17]

6. Let the drunk and the "I know nothing

About any abuse” shithead wrestle for the seat. Loser “gives a treatment” to the winner.

[pecosbob]

7. Didn't Jordan just violate House SCIF security regulations with his little cell phone sleepover?

He should never be able to hold a security clearance in the U.S. again. But then again, in anything but a bizarro world come to life Jeff Sessions would be in prison for perjury.

[brush]

9. Let them. The Dems are going to give their time in a block to a professional...

prosecutor to question the witnesses. If the repugs want to let that idiot blowhard do their talking for them, God bless their stupid hearts.

Maybe it makes sense to them since the facts are against them and they have nothing left but flame throwing.

[blueinredohio]

10. If people in Jordan's district were smart they would remove him altogether.

[Mc Mike]

11. Cause what the intel committee really needs is another blithering repuglinazi idiot.

[EarlG]

13. Please proceed, Mr. Jordan

Please proceed.

[kacekwl]

16. Exactly.

[NewJeffCT]

18. Jordan and the Republicans

were humiliated by Michael Cohen earlier this year

[The Liberal Lion]

14. Sadly

Republicans in congress are only interested in shielding trump from impeachment. At this point I don't even understand why when they have full control of the senate and can make their noxious last stand there. Them seem not to have the least bit interest in actually governing, only blocking good government from happening. And they are successfully pulling it off. By American standards we currently have no federal government, what we are witnessing is entertainment only. I reject the charade.

[underpants]

15. Well if McCarthy and Gaetz think it's a grand idea....

Want could possibly go wrong?

This is nothing but BS PR. They seem to think Jordan does a good job because he creates sound bites and clips of his oh so intimidating self.

[NewJeffCT]

17. I looked through the backgrounds of every person on the House Intel committee

The Democrats almost all have JDs from top law schools

Only 2 Republicans that I saw had JDs, and both were from not as well known law schools

It's a legal and intellectual mismatch between the two sides

[safeinOhio]

19. Move the hearings

to a shower room. Jordan can’t hear or see in a shower room.

[NellieStarbuck]

20. "Jim Jordan" and "intelligence" . . .

. . . should not even appear in the same paragraph.

[mwooldri]

22. Republican vote of confidence in Devin Nunes... Not... NT

[Yavin4]

24. Schiff should pass a rule that jackets are required. n/t

[Timmygoat]

30. Why does he make me think

Of little boys in a shower room naked and grown men smirking and watching.

[marble falls]

32. Intelligence? Unintentional irony just oozes from this administration.

[BlueIdaho]

33. Gym has an overinflated sense of worth

He shit the bed in the Benghazi hearings and he will fail here if they are dumb enough to put him in. He can huff and he can puff but he can’t blow this house impeachment hearing down.

[eppur_se_muova]

34. Just .... wow. That's like casting Don Knotts as a Bond villain.

Don't expect him to grow into the job, either.