US lawmakers to grill Trump intel chief about whistleblower report

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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump's top intelligence official will be grilled by US lawmakers on Thursday (Sep 26) over the administration's ...

"Republicans ought not to be rushing to circle the wagons to say there's no there there when there's obviously lots that's very troubling there," Senator Ben Sasse, a Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said after reading the document.

The whistleblower report is believed to include an account of a telephone call on July 25 between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in which Trump pressed Zelenskiy to investigate a political rival, former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden, in coordination with the US attorney general and Trump's personal lawyer.There is no evidence that Biden, or his son Hunter Biden, who served on the board of a Ukrainian company, acted improperly.

Maguire may also face questions about a report in the Washington Post on Wednesday that he had threatened to resign over concerns that the White House might press him to withhold information from lawmakers. Maguire, the former director of the National Center for Counterterrorism, issued a statement denying that report.

 

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