Peter Strzok slapped with subpoena to testify in open setting before Congress
by Kelly Cohen
| July 03, 2018 01:06 PM
Peter Strzok, the FBI counterintelligence agent who said “we’ll stop†then-candidate Donald Trump from becoming president, has been subpoenaed to openly testify before the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees on July 10 — after his lawyer recently said the date would not work.
The House Judiciary Committee said it subpoenaed Strzok on Tuesday to testify publicly next Wednesday morning as part of the panels' joint investigation into the Justice Department and FBI’s actions during the 2016 presidential election.
The FBI agent appeared before the two panels last week to give a closed-door interview, which lasted nearly 11 hours.
In a scathing letter to the House Judiciary Committee obtained by the Washington Examiner on Monday, Aitan Goelman, the attorney for Strzok, condemned Republican lawmakers for leaking parts of the interview and for behavior that “has transcended the bounds of decency, civility and fair dealing, even for this deeply divided political era.â€
"Having sharpened their knives behind closed doors, the committee would now like to drag back Special Agent Strzok and have him testify in public — a request that we originally made and the committee denied," Goelman wrote. "What's being asked of Special Agent Strzok is to participate in what anyone can recognize as a trap.â€
Goelman then said that Strzok would not accept an invitation to testify publicly on July 10. It is not immediately clear if Strzok will comply with the subpoena, and Goelman did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
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