A Senate committee chairman issued a subpoena this week to one of the spies the FBI used against Donald Trump’s campaign before the 2016 campaign.
Stefan Halper, 76, was told to appear at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington on Oct. 20.
Halper was told he would be answering questions about or related to Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s counter-intelligence investigation of Trump’s campaign; an investigation into that investigation by the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General; and the unmasking of U.S. persons or entities affiliated, formally or informally, with the Trump campaign, the Trump transition team, or the Trump administration.
Halper faces penalties if he refuses to appear.
A copy of the subpoena, issued by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), was obtained and published by the Washington Examiner.
A spokesman for the committee didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Neither Halper nor his lawyer responded to requests for comment.
Johnson’s committee last month authorized him to subpoena 40 people involved in Crossfire Hurricane.
Johnson and other Republicans have argued that the probe was rife with malfeasance, pointing to the reliance on an unsubstantial dossier that relied on Russians to make outlandish claims about Trump.
