Washington • Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, on Thursday offered a full-throated defense of the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, and castigated Democrats for questioning why Maguire didn’t quickly forward Congress a whistleblower complaint regarding President Donald Trump.
“I will say to my colleagues sitting here: I think you’re nuts,” Stewart said during a House Intelligence Committee hearing with Maguire. “If you think you’re going to convince the American people that your cause is just by attacking this man and by impugning his character when it’s clear that he felt there’s a discrepancy, a potential deficiency in the law — he was trying to do the right thing.