华盛顿——众议院外交事务委员会传唤了国务卿迈克·庞贝，要求他向参议院调查小组提交文件，该小组正在调查民主党总统候选人乔·拜登的儿子亨特·拜登。
委员会主席埃利奥特·恩格尔(Eliot Engel)周五表示，他发出传票是对庞贝“明显利用国务院资源推进对前副总统乔·拜登的政治诽谤”的调查的一部分
传票要求司法部将所有记录移交给共和党领导的参议院委员会，这些委员会正在调查亨特·拜登在他父亲担任副总统期间为乌克兰一家天然气公司工作的情况。它还要求内部部门发送回复国会的电子邮件。委员会称庞贝已经向参议院提交了超过16000页的记录，但是拒绝向民主党领导的众议院提交同样的材料。
恩格尔在宣布传票的声明中说:“庞贝部长把国务院变成了特朗普阵营的一个分支，他甚至没有试图掩饰这一点。传票要求在下周之前提供材料。”
这张传票代表着一场选举民主党和调查亨特·拜登的共和党参议院委员会之间长达10年的斗争.民主党人批评了参议院国土安全和政府事务委员会主席罗恩·约翰逊，尤其是他对亨特·拜登和燃气公司布里斯玛的调查。他们说约翰逊的调查扩大了俄罗斯的宣传，他否认了这一指控。
没有证据表明拜登一家有不当行为，亨特·拜登否认利用他对父亲的影响力帮助布里斯玛。
上个月，众议院和参议院民主党领导人致信联邦调查局局长克里斯托弗·雷，称他们担心国会似乎是一场影响2020年总统大选的“联合外国干涉运动”的目标选举。这封信没有提到约翰逊或他的委员会的名字，要求瑞在8月休会前就此事进行一次全体成员的机密简报。
瑞还没有提供所要求的简报，但是立法者确实在周五早些时候收到了一份关于大选安全的机密简报。会后，众议院议长南希·佩洛西说，她担心“美国人民应该更好地了解情况。”
总统试图让乌克兰调查亨特·拜登作为布里斯玛董事会成员的角色，这是去年众议院民主党弹劾调查的核心。特朗普在2019年7月的一个电话中要求乌克兰总统沃洛季米尔·泽伦斯基(Volodymyr Zelenskiy)调查拜登一家，该电话后来被一名告密者的投诉披露。
去年12月，众议院弹劾特朗普向乌克兰政府施压，要求其宣布展开调查，同时拒绝向该国提供军事援助。参议院在二月份宣布他无罪。
民主党做出新的努力之际，美国情报机构、国会情报委员会和乔·拜登都警告称，俄罗斯今年将再次干预选举。特朗普本人一直不愿讨论这个话题，也不愿承认俄罗斯试图在2016年的竞选中挑拨离间，入侵民主党账户，并在社交媒体上推出煽动性内容。
不过，他的政府警告称，俄罗斯和其他国家可能会再次尝试。在上周的一份声明中，政府首席反间谍官员威廉·埃瓦尼娜(William Evanina)表示，中国、俄罗斯和伊朗等对手正试图在战役中损害美国的私人通信和基础设施。它还警告了社交媒体上的虚假信息活动。
民主党人表示，该声明还不够深入，并要求将更多关于干预的信息公之于众。他们还试图引起人们对参议院调查的明显担忧，同时拒绝谈论细节，因为大部分信息都是保密的。
周四，众议院情报委员会投票决定将该信列为机密附件，详细说明他们对干涉的担忧，供众议院议员审查。众议院情报委员会主席亚当·希夫(Adam Schiff)在该委员会发布的一份闭门会议记录中表示，他“今天和2016年一样担心”俄罗斯人正在试图扰乱美国选举。
希夫说:“我相信，今天，正如我当时所做的那样，任何干涉选举的努力都必须受到阻止、干扰和揭露，因为自满将进一步侵蚀我们民主的基本准则，即只有美国人才能决定美国的选举。”
在同一次会议上，民主党人询问该小组的首席共和党人、加州众议员德文·努内斯(Devin Nunes)，他是否收到了乌克兰议员安德里·德尔卡什(Andrii Derkach)提供的一套信息，以及他是否会与民主党人分享这些信息。德克是乌克兰议会的一名议员，他对拜登夫妇提出了未经证实的指控。
纽约民主党众议员肖恩·帕特里克·马洛尼说，“委员会的工作人员掌握了收到包裹的证据。”
希夫问他是否会对马洛尼的评论做出回应，努内斯说“不会。”
努内斯说，民主党关于选举干预的信件是一种政治活动。
他说，机密附件“完全集中在俄罗斯，而忽略了任何其他国家潜在的选举干预。”
House Democrats subpoena Pompeo for documents on Biden's son
WASHINGTON -- The House Foreign Affairs Committee has subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for documents he turned over to a Senate panel that is investigating Hunter Biden, a son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Committee Chair Eliot Engel said Friday he had issued the subpoena as part of an investigation into Pompeo's “apparent use of Department of State resources to advance a political smear of former Vice President Joe Biden.”
The subpoena demands all the records that the department has turned over to Republican-led Senate committees that are investigating Hunter Biden's work for a gas company in Ukraine while his father was vice president. It also asks for internal department emails about responding to Congress. The committee says Pompeo had delivered more than 16,000 pages of records to the Senate but refused to send the same materials to the Democrat-led House.
“Secretary Pompeo has turned the State Department into an arm of the Trump campaign and he’s not even trying to disguise it," Engel said in a statement announcing the subpoena, which demands the materials by next week.
The subpoena represents another escalation in anelection-year battle between Democrats and the GOP Senate committees investigating Hunter Biden. Democrats have criticized Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Ron Johnson, R-Wis., in particular for his probe of Hunter Biden and the gas company Burisma. They say Johnson's probe is amplifying Russian propaganda, an accusation he denies.
There is no evidence of wrongdoing by the Bidens, and Hunter Biden has denied using his influence with his father to aid Burisma.
House and Senate Democratic leaders sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray last month, saying they are concerned that Congress appears to be the target of a “concerted foreign interference campaign” to influence the 2020 presidentialelection. The letter, which did not mention Johnson or his committee by name, asked Wray for an all-members, classified briefing on the matter before the August recess.
Wray hasn't yet offered the requested briefing, but lawmakers did receive a classified briefing early Friday on general election security. Leaving that meeting, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she is concerned “the American people should be better informed.”
The president’s efforts to have Ukraine investigate Hunter Biden’s role as a board member for Burisma were at the heart of House Democrats’ impeachment probe last year. Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate the Bidens on a July 2019 phone call that was later revealed by a whistleblower’s complaint.
The House impeached Trump in December for pressuring the Ukrainian government to announce an investigation while withholding military aid to the country. The Senate acquitted him in February.
The new efforts by Democrats come as the nation’s intelligence agencies, congressional intelligence committees and Joe Biden have all warned of renewed election interference by Russia this year. Trump himself has been loath to discuss the subject or acknowledge that Russia tried to sow discord in the 2016 contest by hacking Democratic accounts and pushing out inflammatory content on social media.
Still, his administration has warned that Russia and other countries will likely try again. In a statement last week, William Evanina, the government’s chief counterintelligence official, said adversaries such as China, Russia and Iran are seeking to compromise U.S. private communications and infrastructure in campaigns. It also warned of disinformation campaigns on social media.
Democrats said the statement didn't go far enough, and have pushed for more information on the meddling to be public. They have also sought to bring attention to their apparent concerns about the Senate investigations while declining to talk in specifics because much of the information is classified.
On Thursday, the House Intelligence Committee voted to make a classified attachment to the letter detailing their concerns about interference available for review by members of the House. In a transcript the committee released of that closed meeting, House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff said he has “the same concerns today” as he did in 2016 that Russians were working to disrupt American elections.
“I believe today, as I did then, that any effort to interfere in elections must be deterred, disrupted, and exposed, because complacency will further erode the basic precept underlying our democracy, that Americans alone must decide American elections,” Schiff said.
At the same meeting, Democrats asked the panel's top Republican, California Rep. Devin Nunes, whether he had received a package of information from Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Derkach and whether he would share it with Democrats. Derkach is a member of Ukraine’s parliament who has promoted unsubstantiated claims against the Bidens.
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., said “committee staff is in possession of evidence that a package was received."
Asked by Schiff if he would respond to Maloney's comment, Nunes said “no.”
Nunes said the Democrats' letter on election interference was a political exercise.
He said the classified attachment “focuses entirely on Russia while ignoring potential election meddling by any other nations.”
