When James R. Clapper Jr., the previous director of nationwide intelligence, testifies on Wednesday behind closed doorways on Capitol Hill, he would be the sixth former intelligence official to be hauled earlier than Congress as a part of what has turn into an intense focus of Home Republicans: a single public letter despatched through the peak of the 2020 presidential marketing campaign.
Republicans have seized on the doc, signed by 51 former intelligence officers whom the G.O.P. has taken to calling the “spies who…