Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain has scheduled a hearing on cyber threats for Thursday, where the issue of Russia’s election-year hacking will take center stage, a source familiar with the committee’s planning told POLITICO.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, National Security Agency and Cyber Command Chief Adm. Mike Rogers and Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Marcel Lettre are scheduled to testify, according to the source.
The timing of the hearing — three days into the new Congress — is in the same week that President-elect Donald Trump says he plans to be briefed by the intelligence community on the Russian hacking.
The Obama administration issued new sanctions against Russia on Thursday in response to the hacking, kicking 35 Russian diplomats and intelligence operatives out of the U.S. and targeting Moscow’s primary security service, the FSB, and its main intelligence directorate, the GRU.
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