West Virginia’s top election official is demanding House Republicans withhold funding from the Department of Homeland Security until the agency fires its recent hires who interfered in the 2020 election to help then-candidate Joe Biden.
In a letter sent to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, the chair of the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner called on House Republicans to put the kibosh on DHS funding until the agency fires former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, and Paul Kolbe, a former CIA operations officer, for signing their names to the debunked letter from 51 former intelligence officials that falsely claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
“Perhaps the strongest tool the US Constitution gives the US House of Representatives is the power of the purse,” Warner wrote. “For the sake of national government integrity, I call on you to refuse funding of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as long as Secretary Mayorkas employs John Brennan, James Clapper, Paul Kolbe, and any others who falsely claimed in writing that the contents of the Hunter Biden laptop were likely Russian disinformation.”
Warner’s letter comes in response to an announcement from DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas last week that the agency launched a Homeland Intelligence Experts Group “comprised of private sector experts who will provide their unique perspectives on the federal government’s intelligence enterprise.” According to a DHS press release, this group — which includes journalists,
