WikiLeaks: Senate Intelligence Committee Requests Julian Assange Testify in Russia Probe
The Senate Intelligence Committee has requested that WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange provide testimony in relation to the Russia probe.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has requested that WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange provide testimony in relation to the Russia probe.
The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released a report of findings it announced back in May that supported the Intelligence Community Assessment released by the Obama administration in January 2017 that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections to hurt Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump.
The arrest of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s former security director James Wolfe on Friday has raised questions about the legitimacy and impartiality of the committee’s Russia probe.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) said Tuesday the committee has no conclusions yet related to Russia collusion.
Senate intelligence committee Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden (OR) wants the committee’s probe of Russian meddling to move into President Trump’s finances, despite opposition from Republican — and even Democratic — colleagues.
Despite the fact that Attorney General Jeff Sessions repeatedly outlined the conversations he said he had with Russian diplomats during the course of the 2016 presidential campaign, Senators at Tuesday’s Senate Intelligence Committee repeatedly peppered Sessions with various forms of the same question — whether he had met with Russian officials during the course of the campaign.
Former FBI Director James Comey said neither President Trump nor any administration official asked him to stop the Russia investigation.
The Washington Post reported North Carolina Republican Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Tuesday that Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, should be called before his committee if she was involved in the unmasking of associates of President Donald Trump in intelligence reports.
The ranking member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence told Breitbart News the White House is not helping its cause as they continue to comment on the congressional investigations into links between Russian interests and President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, declined to comment when Breitbart News asked whether he approved of President Obama’s National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying on Congress.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Richard Burr from North Carolina, Republican chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told Breitbart News that his panel will investigate whether President Obama’s National Security Agency (NSA) broke the law by eavesdropping on private conversations between American lawmakers and Israel.