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Four sitting presidents have voluntarily given testimony in front of Congress, starting with George Washington who appeared before the entire senate to discuss the “Indian treaties.” In a 2018 article for Just Security, Wright described that case as “a parliamentary procedure disaster” that went so badly for Washington that few presidents have been willing to repeat the experience..
According to Wright, Congress has attempted several times to compel former Presidents to testify and has been met with mixed results.
President Bill Clinton testified in front of a grand jury in August 1998.
Congress always needs information in order to formulate policy and provide resources to protect American electoral integrity. Congress also has a constitutionally based mandate to investigate executive branch maladministration and abuse.
For example, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States — commonly called the 9/11 Commission — was a bipartisan commission created by Congress, by means of legislation that President George W. Bush signed into law, in order to give a full accounting of those horrific attacks.
Andy Wrights ( ( @AndyMcCanse) is Senior Fellow and Founding Editor of Just Security. He previously served as Associate Counsel to the President in the White House Counsel’s Office; and Staff Director and Counsel to the national security subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.