Jamie Raskin Rips James Comer For Turning Oversight Committee Into A Russian Mouthpiece

House Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin has called out Chair James Comer for turning the Oversight Committee Into a Russian propaganda mouthpiece.

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Jamie Raskin Accuses James Comer Of Using The Oversight Committee To Spread Russian Disinformation

In a letter, Raskin wrote to Comer:

Given that our Committee and its resources were thus made party to a fraud on the American people, the people now have a right to know what steps you took—if any—to assess the allegations contained in the FBI tipsheet before releasing these allegations to the world. Critically, the American public also has the right to understand how a congressional Committee became a mouthpiece—wittingly or not—for what now looks to be a classic active measure foreign disinformation campaign.

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Your protracted and often successful efforts to spread the false allegations in the FD-1023 tipsheet are part of a striking pattern of transmitting disinformation provided by criminals operating as foreign agents and assets. You also used the Oversight Committee’s resources and g…