Senate intelligence leaders: 20 people to be questioned, first hearing Thursday
Source: CNN
The Senate intelligence committee has asked 20 people to be questioned in its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the panel's chairman said Wednesday.
"This one is one of the biggest investigations the Hill has seen in my time here," Chairman Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, said at a news conference with committee vice-chairman Mark Warner. Burr's been in the Senate since 2005, and served in the House since 1995.
Burr and Warner say they have 20 witnesses they plan to interview and have scheduled interviews with five of them so far. The committee leaders said that they are happy that President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort have agreed to testify, but they have not yet decided when they will bring them in.
"To date, we have made 20 requests for individuals to be interviewed by the committee," Burr said. "As we stand here today, five are already scheduled on the books, and probably within the next 10 days the remaining 15 will have a scheduled date for those individuals to be interviewed by our staff. We anticipate inviting additional individuals to come and be interviewed, and ultimately some of those interviewed individuals may turn into private or public hearings by the committee, but yet to be determined."
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/29/politics/senate-intelligence-committee-conference/index.html
still_one
(92,190 posts)LS_Editor
(893 posts)The Senate may be our only hope.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)samnsara
(17,622 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Hope they prove me wrong.
BumRushDaShow
(128,937 posts)Volaris
(10,270 posts)It begins.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Otherwise up will be down. It will be a parade of Alt facts and serve no purpose at all.
FakeNoose
(32,638 posts)Link: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open
10 a.m. hearing
Witnesses
Eugene Rumer, Director of Russia and Eurasia Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Roy Godson, Professor of Government Emeritus
Georgetown University
ClintWatts, Senior Fellow
Foreign Policy Research Institute Program on National Security
2 p.m. hearing
Witnesses
Kevin Mandia, Chief Executive Officer
FireEye
General (Ret.) Keith Alexander, Chief Executive Officer and President
IronNet Cybersecurity
These look like expert witnesses so maybe they won't get into the good stuff right away.
It doesn't appear that Sally Yates will testify tomorrow.