FBI Director Comey To Testify In Congressional Hearing On March 20
FBI Director James Comey will testify before the House Intelligence Committee on March 20 during a hearing on Russian interference in the U.S. elections.
“That’s the plan. We’re still working out the details and the ground rules with the committee, but we expect that we will be able to accommodate that date,” said Greg Brower, assistant director for the FBI’s Office of Congressional Affairs.
According to a report in The Hill, “The hearing — announced this week — is the first public hearing in the committee’s contentious probe.”
It has yet to be announced whether Comey will be appearing in the public portion of the hearing or during the closed-door session.
The Hill also quoted Brower saying, “The March 20 hearing, as I understand it, is aimed at drilling down on the [intelligence community] report — the public version that was distributed,” he said. “It’s likely that not much more than is in that report can be discussed in an open forum, but my sense from staff is that’s the idea — they want to at least kick off their public hearings with a hearing about the report.”
FBI Director James Comey was on Capitol Hill this week for a closed-door briefing with the “gang of eight.” Comey was there to brief Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker Paul Ryan, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and the ranking Republican and Democrat in the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.
