House panel to hold briefing with intel watchdog next week
By Juliegrace Brufke - 09/27/19 07:45 PM EDT
The House Intelligence Committee is slated to hold a briefing with the U.S. intelligence community's inspector general late next week, despite Congress being in recess, the panel's chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) announced Friday.
Schiff said that Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community inspector general, will appear before the committee in a closed session on Oct. 4 for a briefing. The session comes after Atkinson appeared behind closed doors on Capitol Hill earlier this week.
The Democratic chairman said that a whistleblower complaint against Trump released this week offered “credible and alarming set of allegations that the President of the United States sought to pressure Ukraine to investigate a political rival while also withholding needed military assistance from that country.â€
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