Senate Intelligence Committee wants Julian Assange to testify, and WikiLeaks isn't ruling it out
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- Leaders from the Senate Intelligence Committee sent a letter to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to ask him to testify in a closed briefing with committee staff.
- Assange has been living inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012, where he is wanted by the governments of other countries for a number of crimes.
WASHINGTON — The leaders of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence sent a letter to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange last week requesting that he speak with committee staffers about his connections to the Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
WikiLeaks on Wednesday posted on Twitter an image of the letter, which was signed by the committee's chairman, North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, and the ranking Democrat, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner. Wikileaks wrote on Twitter that its legal team is "considering the offer but testimony must conform to a high ethical standard."See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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