{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://lahood.house.gov/2022/3/lahood-joins-house-intelligence-committee-members-to-urge-ic-to-declassify-and-catalogue-potential-war-crimes-support-humanitarian-efforts", "LaHood Joins House Intelligence Committee Members to Urge IC to Declassify and Catalogue Potential War Crimes, Support Humanitarian Efforts", "2022-03-22", "2022", "2022-03", "Republican", "House", "IL", "Darin LaHood", "L000585", "lahood.house.gov", "lahood", "https://lahood.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Darin LaHood (IL-18) joined his colleagues on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to deliver a letter to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, urging the Intelligence Community to prioritize its unique resources and capabilities to defend human rights in Ukraine. The bipartisan letter can be read in full here.\n\nRussia has stepped up the brutality of its unprovoked war against Ukraine with deadly attacks against civilian infrastructure, members of the press, and thousands of innocent civilians, including children. Earlier this month, 39 countries referred the situation in Ukraine to the International Criminal Court due to numerous allegations of serious war crimes and crimes against humanity by Russian forces. The IC\u2019s unparalleled insight into the events happening on the ground means it is in a unique position to support humanitarian efforts, as well as to preserve intelligence that will be critically important in future war crimes proceedings.\n\n\u201cAs Russia intensifies its indiscriminate killing of Ukrainians, we believe it is vital the IC continues maximizing intelligence sharing with our Ukrainian and international partners, and declassifying intelligence that reveals Russia\u2019s malign intentions and actions, including any potential war crimes. In this ongoing conflict, each day matters, and we hope that, in coordination with our diplomats, you consider all the ways in which you can leverage IC capabilities to help save lives of Ukrainian civilians,\u201d the members wrote in the letter.\n\nSpecifically, the letter calls for the IC to prioritize:\n\nDisclosing or declassifying intelligence that could protect endangered Ukrainian civilians, such as identifying safe evacuation corridors;\n\nDeclassifying information on Russia\u2019s planned or actual acts that could amount to war crimes, particularly the use of chemical weapons; and\n\nDocumenting and cataloging Russian actions in Ukraine that could inform future potential war crimes proceedings.\n\n\u201cThough the possibility of accountability appears distant today, we have a responsibility to bear witness,\u201d the members continued. \u201cThe present moment tests our collective resolve to defend human rights and freedoms.\u201d\n\nThe full letter can be read here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:06:17Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://lahood.house.gov/2022/3/lahood-joins-house-intelligence-committee-members-to-urge-ic-to-declassify-and-catalogue-potential-war-crimes-support-humanitarian-efforts"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.1186922676861286, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}