Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, on Wednesday asked the best questions thus far of any member of Congress to former special counsel Robert Mueller.

Hurd didn't focus on scoring political points, or attempting to impugn Mueller's character, or seeking damaging new information on Trump administration officials. Instead, Hurd focused on an area of real possibility: getting Mueller's testimony on threats to American democracy and on how we can better protect against those threats.

Hurd, a former CIA officer, asked Mueller whether he believed the threat posed by Russian active measures and disinformation continued to pose a serious civil society threat. Mueller answered in the affirmative. While Hurd was unable to get more information from Mueller on how best to address the threat, he did raise a critical issue.

Namely, that there is no one person managing U.S. efforts to protect our election infrastructure from hostile foreign infiltration. Considering Russian targeting efforts in 2016 and 2018, and similar (fortunately failed) Chinese efforts against Australia in 2019, this failure of protective leadership is inexcusable. Hurd deserves credit for using his time to address it.

Where most other members of Congress used Wednesday's hearing as an opportunity to mobilize their most partisan bases, Hurd put the country and his constituents first.

Well done, sir.