Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said President Biden’s administration was “sleepwalking” about the Russian nuclear threat before revealing it last week.
Mr. Turner on Wednesday notified all members of Congress of Russia’s intent to send nuclear weapons into space and called on Mr. Biden to declassify information about the threat. He worried that the White House was “sleepwalking into an international crisis.”
“What I’m asking the administration to do is declassify this,” Turner told NBC News on Saturday. “And my concern is that this is like a Chinese spy balloon, and the administration probably “This suggests that he may be hiding some kind of inaction.” .
“Everyone who saw this used the same words I did: this is a very serious threat,” Turner added. “We met, [national security adviser] Jake Sullivan and he started making plans to hopefully start working on this problem. ”
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner said the administration was “sleepwalking” about the Russian nuclear threat before President Biden’s revelations last week. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
Sullivan said he had already pre-scheduled a meeting with Turner and other members of the Congressional Gang of Eight, and had expressed surprise at Turner’s decision to sound the alarm last week.
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“It was on the books, so I’m a little surprised that Congressman Turner came out publicly today ahead of the books meeting,” Sullivan said at a White House press briefing.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan expressed surprise at Turner’s decision to sound the alarm last week and has already scheduled a meeting with Turner and other members of the Congressional Gang of Eight. He said he had put it in a few days ago. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Details of the Russian threat quickly began to filter into the media, and a picture began to emerge of an adversary capable of disabling U.S. military satellites and other critical space-based infrastructure.
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Details of the Russian threat quickly began to filter into the media, and a picture began to emerge of an adversary capable of disabling U.S. military satellites and other critical space-based infrastructure. (Alexander Kazakov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
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Officials told Fox News Digital last week that the Russian technology has not yet been deployed.
FOX News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
