Senate Intelligence Committee Rejects Kent Walker As Google's Pick To Testify
Republican Sen. Richard Burr on Thursday rejected Google's offer to send Kent Walker, the tech company's former longtime general counsel, to testify at a September hearing on election security.
August 23, 2018 at 07:20 PM
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Kent Walker, Google Senior Vice President and now former general counsel, testifies during a U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing looking into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. Elections via the use of social media, on Wednesday, November 1, 2017. Photo credit: Diego Radzinschi/ALM
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, on Thursday rejected Google's offer to send Kent Walker, the tech company's former longtime general counsel, to testify at a hearing on election security in September.
Walker, who was promoted to senior vice president of global affairs and chief legal officer, was expected to testify in Washington D.C. alongside other Silicon Valley leaders, including Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter chief operating officer Jack Dorsey, on Sept.5, CNET reported Thursday afternoon.
“I told them I wasn't accepting the senior vice president,” Burr, a Republican senator from North Carolina, told the Washington Post.
It's unclear who will represent Google. The Mountain View, California-based company was not immediately available for comment.
This would not have been Walker's first time in a congressional hearing. In November 2017, Walker testified on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Facebook's general counsel Colin Stretch and Twitter's then-acting general counsel Sean Edgett also testified.
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