{"id":284386,"date":"2016-12-13T22:14:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T21:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-senate-panel-to-hold-hearing-on-russia-hacking-in-january\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T22:14:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T21:14:54","slug":"us-senate-panel-to-hold-hearing-on-russia-hacking-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-senate-panel-to-hold-hearing-on-russia-hacking-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate panel to hold hearing on Russia hacking in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A panel in the US Senate is set to hold a hearing on allegations of Russian hacking in favor of GOP candidate Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was announced Tuesday that the Foreign Relations Committee will hold a closed briefing and a public hearing on the issue when senators return from their year-end holiday just before Trump is set to take control of the White House on January 20th, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The committee plans to systematically look at this issue and will begin with both a classified briefing and an open hearing in early January when the Senate returns,&#8221; Micah Johnson, a spokeswoman for the panel&#8217;s Republican chairman, Senator Bob Corker, was quoted as saying by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came as Trump\u2019s Russia problem deepened with top Republicans refusing to dismiss the matter as \u201cridiculous\u201d as their president-elect has.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s spokesman, Jason Miller, has described the assumption that the Russian government&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/13\/497772\/Senate-hearing-on-Russia-hacking-in-Jan-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A panel in the US Senate is set to hold a hearing on allegations of Russian hacking in favor of GOP candidate Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. It was announced Tuesday that the Foreign Relations Committee will hold a closed briefing and a public hearing on the issue when senators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-284386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}