Tennessee U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN-02) sent letters to the chairmans of the House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight Committee on Thursday requesting that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) be investigated after an employee of the CIA’s Cyber Operations Division made bombshell accusations about the intel agency when it comes to its covert relationship with former President Donald Trump – both during and after his presidency.
I requested @GOPOversight and @JudiciaryGOP investigate the CIA in response to this. https://t.co/aeFx5UlssW pic.twitter.com/3SfeNq2TGg
— Rep. Tim Burchett (@RepTimBurchett) May 2, 2024
On Wednesday, James O’Keefe, founder of O’Keefe Media Group, posted an undercover video of a discussion with Amjad Fseisi, a program manager with the CIA’s Cyber Operations Division, who alleged that executive staff at U.S. intel agencies withheld information from Trump during his presidency.
Fseisi also alleged that the intel agencies used the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on Trump and, furthermore, that the agencies continue to monitor the former president and his family.
Burchett, in separate letters to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH-04) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY-01), requested an “immediate investigation” be launched into the CIA, noting the severity of the allegations made by Fseisi in the undercover video and the implications they, if found to be true, may bring.
“Any government worker or agency director who withholds information from a superior (i.e. President Trump) may violate: (a) obstruction of justice by deception (18 USC 1512); (b) conspiracy to obstruct (18 (USC 371); and false statements (18 USC 1001). Therefore, I respectfully request the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability immediately open an investigation into this matter,” Burchett wrote in the letters to Comer and Jordan.
Former CIA directors Gina Haspel and Mike Pompeo were among the individuals mentioned by Fseisi as the “executive staff” who carried out the scheme to keep information from and spy on the former president and his family.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
