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The head of the House Intelligence Committee is inviting special counsel Robert Mueller to testify before his panel sometime in May, claiming that the public must learn about the Russia probe's findings outside of what he sees as Attorney General William Barr's partisan takes.
Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) sent a letter on Thursday to Mueller stating that he will work with the special counsel "to secure a mutually agreeable date in May.”
The committee argued that it must be briefed about all the details of the counterintelligence probe — classified or not — as part of its duty to conduct oversight on matters of intelligence and counterintelligence.
“To discharge its distinct constitutional and statutory responsibility, the Committee must be kept ‘fully and currently informed’ of the intelligence and counterintelligence findings, evidence, and implications for your investigation," Schiff wrote to Mueller.
"This requires that the Committee receive the comprehensive testimony from you about the investigation’s full scope and areas of inquiry, its findings and underlying evidence, all of the intelligence and counterintelligence information gathered in the course of the investigation, and the status of any ongoing counterintelligence investigation," he continued.