United States | House Intelligence Committee Chairman Warns of 'Serious National Security Threat'

of the United States chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Mike Turner issued an unusually cryptic statement on Wednesday, saying members of Congress had been briefed on an unspecified “serious threat to national security,” Reuters reports.

Rep. Turner, a Republican, was not willing to comment further.

According to sources familiar with the matter, the statement was somehow related to Russia and operations in space, Reuters reports. According to the sources of the news media CNN, it is about “very sensitive” intelligence information.

Turner had briefed members of Congress earlier that the urgent matter concerned “a destabilizing foreign military force,” according to CNN.

In a statement, Turner urged the president Joe Biden to reverse the encryption of information related to the threat.

of the United States national security adviser Jake Sullivan was surprised by Turner's exit.

Sullivan said he would organize a meeting on Thursday with leading Democrats and Republicans in Congress. The meeting had already been arranged earlier.

Sullivan also stated that the administration is not “averse to de-encryption” if national security allows it.

More precisely, he did not want to comment on the matter.

US media CBS News interviewed by a Democratic representative Jason Crow according to this, it is not an immediate threat, but one that must be taken seriously. Crow also sits on the Intelligence Committee.