The House on Thursday rejected a Republican effort to remove the representative. Eric Swalwell
Eric Michael Swalwell: GOP leader tries to force Swalwell to leave panel Laurence Tribe: President or not, Trump can pay for the Jan. 6 insurgency. A year later, lawmakers wish hugs and Chuck E. Cheese MORE (D-California) Intelligence Committee on its past links to an alleged Chinese spy.
Lawmakers voted primarily on the 218-200 party line, with three Republicans voting “present,” to present a resolution that the House minority leader Kevin McCarthy
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Republicans have seized an Axios report late last year that Swalwell had a connection to Christine Fang, an alleged Chinese spy who helped raise funds for the 2014 Democrat re-election campaign. California and helped place an inmate in his office.
Swalwell, who briefly ran for the presidency in 2019 and was one of the prosecutors in the House during the express indictment trial in the Senate President Trump
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Swalwell was alerted by federal investigators around 2015 about Fang’s efforts to approach U.S. politicians, which U.S. officials believe should gather political intelligence and influence lawmakers on issues related to China. Officials do not believe Fang received or transmitted classified information.
Swalwell has said he quickly severed ties with Fang and provided information about her to the FBI.
Earlier Thursday, Swalwell called McCarthy’s resolution “the new McCarthyism.”
“Meet the new McCarthyism. Multiple sentences in the state resolution” Swalwell has not denied … “However, it does not include several FBI statements of” not doing wrong “and did nothing more than” cooperate. “All this to deviate from @GOPLeader’s support for QAnon,” Swalwell tweeted.
McCarthy has said earlier that “there is no place for QAnon in the Republican party,” but Democrats have tried to link him to the rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
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McCarthy argued that Swalwell’s past connection to the alleged spy made it difficult for Swalwell to obtain a security permit from the private sector to apply for close contact with a foreigner in the past seven years and suggested, without providing details, that information from a classified the briefing further consolidated his case “.[Pelosi has] I have 200 more members who can be part of this committee and I think the only criterion someone should meet from the beginning would be to have a security permit in the private sector? If you can’t get to know this bar, you shouldn’t be able to meet with a bar to be part of Intel’s committee, ”McCarthy said at a news conference at the Capitol.
Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff
Adam Bennett SchiffReport finds a growing white nationalist threat that the House panel will withdraw from the 2002 war authorization in the “coming weeks.” House Democrats want to silence opposing views, not “fake news” MORE (D-California) defended Swalwell on Thursday in a statement, calling him a member of the “trusted and valued” group.
“It’s disturbing that Kevin McCarthy is trying to arm classified intelligence meetings as a political matrix and use them to soil a House colleague in the process,” Schiff said.