[bagster]

Senator Mark Warner and others on the Senate Intel Committee (officially known as Senate Select Committee on Intelligence) have lots to answer for!!

Agreed.

Does the majority leader (McConnell) have any say on who the derps appoint to committees?

Serious question cause I don't know.

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

Normally each party gets to appoint their own committee members. Whether McConnell has any special power to decided to exclude opposing party members from a committee, I don’t know, but he sure could raise hell with Schumer in various ways if Schumer does not cooperate. Whether the Turtle will really put the screws to Schumer over this, who knows?