围绕俄罗斯干预美国大选的调查将举行首次公开听证

The House Intelligence Committee will probe Russian interference into the U.S. election in public for the first time during a hearing March 20, committee chair Representative Devin Nunes announced Tuesday.

Among those invited to give public testimony are James Comey, the current director of the FBI who has been at the center of the controversy regarding his involvement in influencing the investigation into Hillary Clinton\'s emails; Mike Rogers, director of the National Security Agency; and John Brennan, former CIA director.

President Donald Trump heightened the firestorm surrounding the Russia investigation when, late last week, he tweeted that phones at his New York high-rise building had been wiretapped at the behest of former President Barack Obama, a charge labeled "simply false" by an Obama spokesman.

"I think it\'s a valid question — if it was a question. Look at General Flynn — why was he being recorded? Was it incidental like we all assume or was it something else? Was there any other additional recording going on?" Nunes said, noting the House Intelligence Committee planned to looked into the broader issue of phone surveillance during the election even before the White House request.

应邀在听证会上公开作证的包括美国联邦调查局现任局长詹姆斯·科米，他由于在针对希拉里·克林顿的电子邮件调查中所起的影响而一直是争论的中心，还有国家安全局局长迈克尔·罗杰斯，以及前中央情报局局长约翰·布伦南。

川普总统本人也强化了围绕俄罗斯调查的风暴。他上周末在推特上说，他的纽约高层大厦的电话被窃听，这是前总统奥巴马的命令。但奥巴马发言人称这一说法“纯属捏造”。

不过努内斯说，“我认为这是一个有道理的问题——如果这是一个问题的话。拿弗林将军来说，为什么他被录音了？是纯属偶然还是别的什么？ 还有任何别的录音吗？” 努内斯还提到，众议院情报委员会在白宫提出要求之前，就已经计划调查有关大选期间电话监听的更广泛的问题了。