⁍ Former FBI Director James Comey will testify before a Senate committee on Wednesday.

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⁍ Comey was one of the principal figures behind the U.S. investigation into links between Russia and President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign.

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⁍ Senate Republicans say the probe was intended to undermine Republican Trump’s candidacy and presidency.

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– Former FBI Director James Comey is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday about the origins of the investigation into links between Russia and President Trump’s 2016 campaign, Reuters reports. Republicans on the committee say the investigation, code-named “Crossfire Hurricane,” was meant to hurt Trump’s candidacy and presidency. In December, a Justice Department watchdog found evidence of numerous errors but no political bias when the FBI opened the investigation. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, a Trump ally, has said he wants accountability for the errors, including ones in the FBI’s applications for warrants to monitor Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser. The committee held public hearings earlier this year with two other former officials involved in Crossfire Hurricane: former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates. The Senate Judiciary Committee is one of two Republican-led Senate panels investigating the origins of the Russia probe. Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, is leading his own. That committee recently voted to move forward with subpoenas and depositions of dozens of Obama-era officials as part of an inquiry that Democrats say is intended to boost Trump’s re-election campaign. The Mueller probe found that Russia sought to interfere in the 2016 election to boost Trump’s candidacy and that the Trump campaign had numerous contacts with Russians. But Mueller concluded that the evidence did not establish a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Moscow.