Top House Democrat Vows Probe of Intel Contractors

“The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is preparing to investigate the spy industry’s work with the Trump administration, the latest sign that the party plans to put anticorruption efforts at the center of its legislative agenda if it wrests control in the elections this fall,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“In a Monday letter to a defense-industry group reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Rep. Jim Himes, a Connecticut Democrat who is expected to claim the gavel if Republicans lose the majority, said he was concerned about the administration’s ‘nakedly corrupt dealings with the private sector,’ as it has ‘appeared to inappropriately fuse the government contracting process with the attempted extraction of political or private favors.'”