02 June, 2017
However, Comey may not say much, since the Russian Federation investigation is ongoing, and he had to clear his appearance with the special counsel now leading the probe, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, to avoid impeding the investigation.
Top U.S. intelligence officials will testify before a Senate panel next week on the law governing the collection of foreign intelligence, parts of which are due to expire at the end of the year, the Senate Intelligence Committee said on Friday.
He will testify as part of the committee's investigation into Russia's interference in the presidential elections and any collusion with the Trump campaign, which Trump has called a witch hunt.
In an interview with ABC News, Conway appeared to indicate that the president would allow Comey to testify, saying, "We'll be watching with the rest of the world when Director Comey testifies".
It is possible that the Trump White House could try to raise executive privilege claims in arguing that any conversations with the president could not be discussed publicly.
Trump fired Comey on May 9, prompting a political firestorm and accusations by critics that he was improperly seeking to hinder an Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into Russia's role in the election and potential collusion by Trump's campaign.
The president's tweet also comes after White House spokesman Sean Spicer on Wednesday directed any queries about the Russian Federation investigations to Trump's outside counsel, Marc Kasowitz.The House Intelligence Committee's investigation is one of several congressional probes into Russian Federation, along with one by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The former FBI chief, who was sacked by Trump on May 9, is expected to testify on conversations he had with Trump in which the president reportedly asked him to drop an investigation into former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn. Farage, a Trump supporter and former leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, said he had no Russia connections.Separately, the Washington Post reported that the Trump administration was moving toward returning two Russian compounds in the United States to Moscow.The Maryland and NY compounds were seized under the Obama administration in December as part of a larger action over what the former president said was Russian involvement in hacking political groups in the November 8 USA presidential election.
The requests to unmask the names of Trump associates underwent the same stringent evaluations that U.S. privacy laws and intelligence regulations require for all such applications, and they produced nothing out of the ordinary, said the four officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
