House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) said that he issued the statement urging information regarding “a serious national security threat” be released on Wednesday because he felt the White House was “sleepwalking into an international crisis.”
The threat, which is that Russia is allegedly developing a nuclear-armed anti-satellite weapon, was of concern to Turner due to previous inaction by President Joe Biden‘s administration on matters like the Chinese spy balloon incident last year, he explained on NBC News’s Meet the Press.
“What I have called for is for the administration to declassify this, and my concern is that this is kind of like the Chinese spy balloon and the administration is kind of hiding perhaps, you know, some inaction,” Turner said in an interview that aired on Sunday.
He said that since he sounded the alarm over
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