{"id":2390821,"date":"2025-01-15T18:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T23:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-johnson-removes-mike-turner-as-house-intelligence-committee-chairman-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T18:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T23:27:36","slug":"speaker-johnson-removes-mike-turner-as-house-intelligence-committee-chairman-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-johnson-removes-mike-turner-as-house-intelligence-committee-chairman-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Johnson removes Mike Turner as House Intelligence Committee chairman &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fspeaker-johnson-removes-mike-turner-as-house-intelligence-committee-chairman-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2390821&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/khymani-james-dumbassery-on-display-just-two-days-before-his-expulsion\/\" title=\"Khymani James displays foolish behavior shortly before being expelled\">provided content includes<\/a> a button for readers to click and reveal more details, suggesting that it \u200dis part\u2063 of\u200c a webpage \u2063where additional\u2062 details can be accessed. 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It&rsquo;s not yet known who Johnson will tap to replace Turner on the powerful committee.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s unclear why Turner was removed from the leadership position, but the Ohio Republican has ruffled some feathers in both Republican and Democratic circles during his short tenure. <\/p>\n<p>One such instance was when Turner caught members of the intelligence community off guard last year when he called on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Joe Biden<\/a>&nbsp;to declassify information regarding what he described as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/national-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;a serious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-dept-spox-largest-threat-to-u-s-national-security-are-u-s-cops\/\" title=\"State Dept Spox: \u2018Largest Threat to U.S. National Security are U.S. Cops\u2019\">national security threat<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>National security adviser&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jake-sullivan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jake Sullivan<\/a>&nbsp;said he was &ldquo;surprised&rdquo; by that move, telling reporters at the time had proactively reached out to him and other top lawmakers to schedule a classified briefing before Turner made the call. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some House Republicans also took issue with the move, with Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) calling on Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Olivia_Beavers\/status\/1758163617524940970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">to open an inquiry <\/a>into Turner for publicly raising concerns about a national security threat, accusing the chairman of doing it with &ldquo;reckless disregard of the implications and consequences.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s unclear whether an inquiry was opened or if it relates to Johnson&rsquo;s decision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1936646\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1936646\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Johnson ousts Mike Turner as House Intelligence chair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2640,"featured_media":2390822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mike-turner-1-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[48583,43821,32603,35903,32076],"class_list":["post-2390821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-house-intelligence-committee","tag-mike-turner","tag-political-news","tag-speaker-johnson","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mike-turner-1-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390825,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390821\/revisions\/2390825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}