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Drain the Intelligence Community Swamp Act of 2025 This bill revokes the security clearances of 51 individuals who signed a statement titled Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails and dated October 19, 2020. It also (1) specifies that a security clearance may not be granted or renewed for any of them, and (2) requires the Departments of Defense and Justice to investigate these individuals.
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119 HR 80 IH: Drain the Intelligence Community Swamp Act of 2025 U.S. House of Representatives 2025-01-03 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 80 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2025 Mr. Biggs of Arizona (for himself and Mr. Davidson ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform , and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary , and Armed Services , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To revoke the security clearances of certain former members of the intelligence community, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Drain the Intelligence Community Swamp Act of 2025 . 2. Revocation of security clearances (a) In general Not later than 24 hours after the date of enactment of this Act, the security clearance of any individual listed in subsection (c), signatories of the statement titled Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails dated October 19, 2020, are hereby revoked, and no security clearance may be granted or renewed for any such individual. (b) Investigations The Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General shall investigate such individuals and their role in the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and level of engagement with the Biden Presidential campaign. (c) Individuals listed The individuals listed in this subsection are the following: (1) Jim Clapper. (2) Mike Hayden. (3) Leon Panetta. (4) John Brennan. (5) Thomas Finger. (6) Rick Ledgett. (7) John McLaughlin. (8) Michael Morell. (9) Mike Vickers. (10) Doug Wise. (11) Nick Rasmussen. (12) Russ Travers. (13) Andy Liepman. (14) John Moseman. (15) Larry Pfeiffer. (16) Jeremy Bash. (17) Rodney Snyder. (18) Glenn Gerstell. (19) David B. Buckley. (20) Nada Bakos. (21) Patty Brandmaier. (22) James B. Bruce. (23) David Cariens. (24) Janice Cariens. (25) Paul Kolbe. (26) Peter Corsell. (27) Brett Davis. (28) Roger Zane George. (29) Steven L. Hall. (30) Kent Harrington. (31) Don Hepburn. (32) Timothy D. Kilbourn. (33) Ron Marks. (34) Jonna Hiestand Mendez. (35) Emile Nakhleh. (36) Gerald A. O’Shea. (37) David Priess. (38) Pam Purcilly. (39) Marc Polymeropoulos. (40) Chris Savos. (41) Nick Shapiro. (42) John Sipher. (43) Stephen Slick. (44) Cynthia Strand. (45) Greg Tarbell. (46) David Terry. (47) Greg Treverton. (48) John Tullius. (49) David A. Vanell. (50) Winston Wiley. (51) Kristin Wood.
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