Top Democrat says intelligence briefing cancelled after attacks by far-right Laura Loomer | US politics
Senator Mark Warner said in a statement on Wednesday that a meeting planned by a US intelligence agency was canceled after the online attacks of an extreme -right activist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer.
Warner, the Vice President of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was going to visit the National Jeo-Uzak-Zeka Agency in Virginia, a part of the “responsibility to provide surveillance and support to our intelligence community”.
The management canceled the invitation after Loomer’s launched a “unquestionable attack campaign ına against Loomer’s and the director of the agency, Trey Whitworth.
Warner, donation collection e -mail, “I can not exaggerate how unseen and dangerous,” he said. “This management is a Wackjob, including a long strange eaveship history, including associations, including associations, including associations with the marching orders from Laura Loomer.
Loomer has recently complained that an intelligence agency director of an intelligence agency has been released on social media. He celebrated the cancellation, called Warner as a threat to national security and argued that it should be removed from the Senate Committee.
“We armed our intelligence organizations to force the refuted Russia to force the Wednesday deception,” he wrote.
He said New York Times Warner should be removed from the office and try for betrayal ”.
Warner told journalists, the decision to cancel the meeting that has never been announced before, said the defense secretary.
The incident shows the permanent effect of Loomer under the management of Donald Trump. The 32 -year -old child, who previously described herself as a “proud Islamophobe ,, served as a National Security and Foreign Policy Consultant for the President. In April, Trump fired six employees after giving him a list of people he believed to be loyal enough to the president.
Last month, the management announced that it plans to stop providing a visa seeking medical care after Loomer from Gaza.
Warner argued that Loomer was “basically a cabinet member at this point ve and Trump and his administration“ cave everything he wanted ”.
“This naked political decision, dedicated, non -partisan staff [the] NGA threatens the principle of civil surveillance that protects our national security. ”
“Congress members routine meetings and on -site participation with federal employees in their states and regions, and in these sessions, preventing and identifying arbitrary conditions, it is a dangerous precedent and questioning whether surveillance is allowed when only the extreme right eaves satisfied.”
