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23 October 2019The president of the council, Giuseppe Conte, left Palazzo San Macuto after the hearing before the Copasir (the parliamentary committee for the control of the pipelines relating to the rules on information activities for security, composed of 5 senators and 5 deputies and chaired by a representative of the main minority party) on the Russiagate affair. The audition, which began twenty minutes late, lasted about two and a half hours. Conte, to whom he delegates to the secret services, among other things, would have presented the six-monthly report to the Parliament on the intelligence of national intelligence.

The three strands
Three essential points that the premier was invited to clarify before the Copasir. First: what was Italy's actual role in the Russiagate, that is, in the investigation conducted in the United States on the alleged interference of Moscow in the last US presidential elections. Second: the genesis and motivations of the two meetings in mid-August between the American Justice Minister William Barr, accompanied by the prosecutor John Durham, and the heads of the Italian secret services. Third: the Italian contribution to Barr's requests.

Secret hearing
The audition, secreted, lasted just over two and a half. Conte, who retained the authority to secret services as in the previous government, also illustrated the six-monthly report to Parliament on national intelligence activity, and subsequently answered questions from the president of Copasir, the League's deputy and former Undersecretary of Defense Raffaele Volpi, and the other commissioners.