Trump-Russia probe muddies House hearing on US threat assessment
WASHINGTON - Republicans are resisting requests by Democrats for US intelligence chiefs to present their annual global threat report to a congressional panel so they can avert a likely showdown with the head of the FBI over aspects of the Trump-Russia investigation, two Democratic sources said on Wednesday.
Republican leaders on the US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee have not scheduled the customary hearing, said the Democratic sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
On Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray joined Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, CIA Director Mike Pompeo and other agency heads when they presented the 2018 Worldwide Threat Assessment report to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
If the House committee were to bring in intelligence chiefs, Democrats would almost certainly ask Wray about "material omissions of fact" the FBI found in a classified memo Republicans on the panel released this month.
