McConnell: No select panel needed to probe Russian hacking

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., rejected calls from a bipartisan group of senators to create a select committee on cyberattacks to investigate possible Russian interference in the American election.

McConnell, in a sit-down interview with Kentucky Educational Television that aired Monday night, called the allegations of Russian hacking “a serious issue” but one that “doesn’t require” a special committee to run the inquiry. He also suggested that only one panel, the Intelligence Committees in the House and Senate, needs to focus on such an investigation.