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On Wednesday, May 12, at 10 a.m., the Senate Appropriations Committee will hold a hearing on domestic violent extremism. The committee will hear testimony from Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
On May 3, Judge Amy Berman Jackson released an opinion chastising former Attorney General William Barr for his handling of the Mueller Report in 2019. The opinion specifically concerns Barr’s four-page public summary of the report released on March 24, 2019, which found that “the evidence developed during the Special Counsel’s investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense.”
On Thursday, May 6, 2021, at 12:30 p.m., the House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the atrocities against Uighurs and other minorities in Xinjiang. The committee will hear testimony from Nury Turkel, chairman of the board of the Uyghur Human Rights Project; Tursunay Ziyawudun, a survivor and advocate; and James Millward, professor at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service.
On Wednesday, May 5, 2021, at 3:00 p.m., the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Development, International Organizations and Global Corporate Social Impact will hold a joint hearing on creating a framework for a rules-based order in space.
The Facebook Oversight Board ruled this morning, May 5, on Facebook's suspension of Donald Trump's account after the Capitol riot.
On Tuesday, May 4, 2021, at 1:00 p.m., the House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the crisis in Myanmar.
On Tuesday, May 4, 2021, at 11:00 a.m., the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations will hold a hearing on the Defense Department's strategy, policy and programs for countering weapons of mass destruction.
On Friday, April 30, 2021, at 3:00 p.m., the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies and Information Systems will hold a hearing titled, "Technology and Information Warfare: The Competition for Influence and the Department of Defense." The subcommittee will hear testimony from Nina Jankowicz, a fellow at the Wilson Center; Glenn Gerstell, the former general counsel for the National Security Agency; Herb Lin, a senior research scholar at Stanford University; and Joseph Kirschbaum, the director of the defense capabilities management team at the Government Accountab
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released its “Annual Statistical Transparency Report Regarding the Intelligence Community’s Use of National Security Surveillance Authorities” for the 2020 calendar year.
On Thursday, April 29, 2021, at 1:00 p.m., the House Budget Committee will hold a hearing on reasserting Congress's power of the purse.