圍繞俄羅斯干預美國大選的調查將舉行首次公開聽證

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.美國衆議院情報委員會主席、共和黨議員努內斯星期二宣佈，該委員會將於3月20日的聽證會上首次公開討論俄羅斯對去年美國總統選舉干預的問題。

應邀在聽證會上公開作證的包括美國聯邦調查局現任局長詹姆斯·科米，他由於在針對希拉里·克林頓的電子郵件調查中所起的影響而一直是爭論的中心，還有國家安全局局長邁克爾·羅傑斯，以及前中央情報局局長約翰·布倫南。

川普總統本人也強化了圍繞俄羅斯調查的風暴。他上週末在推特上說，他的紐約高層大廈的電話被竊聽，這是前總統奧巴馬的命令。但奧巴馬發言人稱這一說法“純屬捏造”。

不過努內斯說，“我認爲這是一個有道理的問題——如果這是一個問題的話。拿弗林將軍來說，爲什麼他被錄音了？是純屬偶然還是別的什麼？ 還有任何別的錄音嗎？” 努內斯還提到，衆議院情報委員會在白宮提出要求之前，就已經計劃調查有關大選期間電話監聽的更廣泛的問題了。