Mueller To Testify At FBI Oversight Hearing In September

 

WASHINGTON (Wednesday, August 13, 2008) – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) today announced that Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert S. Mueller will testify before the Senate panel at an oversight hearing scheduled for September 17.  Mueller last appeared before the Committee in March.

 

Earlier this week, Leahy and Ranking Member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) sent a letter to Mueller pressing for more information about the misuse of so-called “exigent letters.”  Press accounts last week revealed that Mueller apologized to editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post for a 2004 breach of reporters’ phone records.

 

Under Leahy’s chairmanship, the Judiciary Committee has held periodic oversight hearings of the FBI with the Bureau’s Director.  The oversight hearing will be held Wednesday, September 17 at 9:30 a.m.  Non-credentialed members of the press should contact the Senate Press Galleries for information about how to attend the hearing.

 

August 13, 2008 

NOTICE OF COMMITTEE HEARING

 

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing on “Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation” for Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. in Room 216 of the Senate Hart Office Building.

 

By order of the Chairman 

Witness List

Hearing before the
Senate Judiciary Committee

on

“Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation”

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Hart Office Building Room 216
9:30 a.m.

The Honorable Robert S. Mueller, III
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States Department of Justice
Washington, DC