United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Permanent select committee
Active United States House of Representatives 119th Congress
Seal of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
History
Formed	July 14, 1977
Formerly known as	Select Committee on Intelligence
Leadership
Chair	Rick Crawford (R) Since January 16, 2025
Ranking member	Jim Himes (D) Since February 1, 2023
Structure
Seats	27
Political parties	Majority (15)  Republican (15) Minority (12)  Democratic (12)
Jurisdiction
Purpose	to "oversee and make continuing studies of the intelligence activities and programs of the United States Government"
Oversight authority	United States Intelligence Community
Senate counterpart	United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Subcommittees
Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research (STAR) Subcommittee Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation (C3) Intelligence Modernization and Readiness (INMAR) Defense Intelligence and Warfighter Support (DIWS)
Website
intelligence.house.gov (Republican) democrats-intelligence.house.gov (Democratic)

TheUnited States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), also known as theHouse Intelligence Committee, is acommittee of theUnited States House of Representatives, currently chaired byRick Crawford. It is the primary committee in the U.S. House of Representatives charged with the oversight of theUnited States Intelligence Community, though it does share some jurisdiction with other committees in the House, including theArmed Services Committee for some matters dealing with theDepartment of Defense and the various branches of theU.S. military.

The committee was preceded by theSelect Committee on Intelligence between 1975 and 1977. House Resolution 658 established thepermanent select committee, which gave it status equal to astanding committee on July 14, 1977.^[1]

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The committee oversees all or part of the followingexecutive branch departments andagencies:

Prior to establishing the permanent select committee in 1977, the House of Representatives established the "Select Committee on Intelligence", commonly referred to as the "Pike Committee", so named after its last chairman,Otis G. Pike ofNew York. Theselect committee had originally been established in February 1975 under the chairmanship of CongressmanLucien Nedzi ofMichigan. Following Nedzi's resignation in June, the committee was reconstituted with Pike as chair, in July 1975, with its mandate expiring January 31, 1976. Under Pike's chairmanship, the committee investigated illegal activities by theCentral Intelligence Agency (CIA) and theFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The final report of the Pike Committee was never officially published due to Congressional opposition. However, unauthorized versions of the draft final report were leaked to the press.CBS News reporterDaniel Schorr was called to testify before Congress, but refused to divulge his source.^[2] Major portions of the report were published byThe Village Voice, and a full copy of the draft was published in England.

During the 1980s the HPSCI worked to acquire access to covert action notifications of the CIA, as well as to strengthen the role of the committee in intelligence agency funding. Under theReagan administration, the HPSCI andUnited States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) worked withDirector of Central IntelligenceWilliam J. Casey on what was known as the "Casey Accords". The accords required that covert action findings were to be accompanied by "scope papers" that included a risk/gain assessment of each such activity. However, the deal was not acceptable to the HPSCI, and after theIran–Contra affair, more pressure was placed on strengthening the oversight of committees.^[3]

In 2017, the committee was tasked along with the SSCI to evaluate thedegree of Russian interference in the2016 US elections.^[4] The committee was also investigating allegations ofwiretapping ofDonald Trump, as well as ties between Russian officials and members of Trump's presidential campaign.^[5][6] The committee came under intense scrutiny in 2017 and 2018 due to allegations of partisanship and leaks of classified information by members and their staff. In March 2018, the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections was abruptly ended by the committee's Republican members despite the assertion by Democratic members that the investigation was incomplete and had failed to gather pertinent information. Notably, House Intelligence Republicans released a draft of their investigatory report which contradicted some findings of the U.S. Intelligence Community and was written without the input of House Democrats.^[7][8] In March 2018, after further disagreements, Republican committee memberTom Rooney claimed that the committee had "lost all credibility" and had become "a political forum for people to leak information to drive the day's news."^[9]

With the change of party leadership in the House in the116th United States Congress, the committee launched a probe of Trump's finances and Russian ties in February 2019.^[10] In June 2019, in the course of hearings on the national security implications of climate change, the White House blocked the submission of a statement by the State Department'sBureau of Intelligence and Research Office of the Geographer and Global Issues, and the analyst who wrote the statement, Rod Schoonover, resigned.^[11][12]

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