The House Foreign Affairs Committee has invited the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Michael (Mike) Richard Pompeo Back to the Future: In January 2021, the United States needs to join the world and start leading again. Iran posts photo of damaged nuclear fuel production site: report To support Hong Kong’s freedom, remember America’s revolution MORE to appear before a hearing on how the Trump administration responded to reports that US intelligence knew that Russia was offering rewards to Taliban-backed fighters for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan.
The hearing is scheduled for Thursday. It is titled “Russian Rewards in American Troops: Why Has the Administration Not Responded?”
Pompeo appears as a “guest” to the audience. The State Department and the House committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether it had confirmed that it would attend.
The other witness to the hearing is expected to be Michael Morell, a former acting director of the CIA in the Obama administration.
President Trump
Donald John Trump Trump’s second term plans remain a mystery to the Republican Party Trump to hold an outdoor rally in New Hampshire on Saturday Eighty-eight years of debt mercy MORE and administration officials have tried to downplay last month’s report by The New York Times and The Washington Post that the U.S. intelligence community had concluded months ago that an arm of the Russian military intelligence service had offered Financial incentives to Taliban-backed fighters to kill the US and coalition forces in Afghanistan.
The president has said that he was not informed about the Russian threats because the intelligence was not credible. However, it has received bipartisan rejection from lawmakers demanding responses on the threats and the administration’s response.
Pompeo has rejected the rewards claims, accusing journalists of spreading misinformation about such intelligence reports and defending the administration’s policy toward Russia.
“I can assure you that whatever report you refer to, we responded in exactly the right way,” he told reporters at a press conference at the State Department last week.
“The fact that the Russians are involved in Afghanistan in a way that is adverse to the United States is nothing new,” he said. “We take this seriously, we handle it properly.”
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