intelligence

House Intelligence panel requests Mueller briefing

The leaders of the House Intelligence Committee last month made a rare bipartisan request for special counsel Robert Mueller to brief the committee on his investigation and for the Justice Department to provide the panel with the counterintelligence material gathered during the probe.

Senate panel: Putin was trying to help Trump

Breaking with their House Republican counterparts, the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that the intelligence community properly concluded in January of last year that Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to help Donald Trump when Moscow meddled in the 2016 election.

Senior Intel officials expected to face pressure

Senators on the Senate intelligence committee are expected to push Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein about their private interactions with President Donald Trump to learn more about whether he tried to tamper in any way with the Justice Department's Russia investigation.