Biden Echoes McCain's Call for Russia Select Committee

Former Vice President Joe Biden (AP Photo)

By    |   Thursday, 23 March 2017 03:55 PM EDT ET

Joe Biden said there should be a select committee to investigate Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, scolding a GOP House leader Thursday for sharing intelligence with the White House amid his own panel's probe.

The former Democratic vice president tweeted Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was right to call for such a committee.

McCain on Wednesday said American voters now know "that no longer does the Congress have credibility to handle this alone."

The chorus calling for a select committee began after the House Intelligence chair, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., announced he had briefed President Donald Trump about what he said are intelligence documents showing intel was incidentally collected on members of Trump's transition team – and that their identities were unmasked.

Nunes did not first share the information he obtained with his own panel first, angering the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who likened Nunes' move to that of a Trump "surrogate."

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