House GOP Judiciary members invite FBI agents in Flynn case to testify

The House Judiciary Committee's top Republican, Rep. Jim Jordan, is asking two FBI agents connected to the 2017 White House interview of then-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn to testy before the panel, after agency Director Christopher Wray failed to respond to their request. 

Jordan made the request in a letter co-written by fellow GOP committee member Rep. Mike Johnson to agent Joe Pientka and an attorney representing agent Bill Priestap.

Pientka was one of the agents who made the visit to the White House, along with Peter Strzok. Priestap was the agent in charge of the FBI's counterintelligence division at the time the two agents were sent to the White House, ignoring protocol, to interview Flynn about his conversation with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak.

"The Justice Department now acknowledges that the FBI had no legitimate investigatory basis to interview LTG Flynn at all," reads the letter from the congressman. 

The department earlier this month asked a federal court to dismiss its case against Flynn, based in part on his White House interview with the agents, upon learning from newly released documents about the agents' actions. 

The House Judiciary Committee is presently engaged in an oversight investigation of the Justice Department and FBI's actions as related to their probes into whether the 2016 Trump presidential campaign colluded with Russia to influence the outcome of the race.