“The bottom line is we are tired of passively letting people make accusations to overcrowd our agenda and they ought to respond to claims we know exist about their misconduct,” Biggs said in an interview, referring to Clinton and other Democrats targeted in the amendment, including Susan Rice, former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser.
The amendment requires the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to explore the Justice Department and FBI’s handling of the Clinton email investigation.
“For the past several years, Democrats have obstructed justice and blocked every Congressional investigation imaginable,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, another sponsor of the amendment, in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “Both parties have criticized James Comey over the past year for his performance as FBI director. Even Sen. Feinstein [Dianne] says there should be an investigation into Loretta Lynch and James Comey’s handling of the Clinton investigation. Let’s have a special counsel for that and see how serious congressional Democrats are about getting to the truth.”
The amendment, also sponsored by Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Mike Johnson, R-La., will be attached to a bill from Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., that requests the Justice Department provide documents related to Comey’s firing.
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The conservative-authored amendment asks the Justice Department to explain why the FBI did not further investigate Clinton for “selling access to the U.S. State Department through Clinton Foundation donations.”
Biggs insisted he and his colleagues did not file their amendment to do the bidding of Trump.
“This is a matter of seeking justice,” Biggs said. “It’s what this is always about. If you don’t seek justice, people lose faith and confidence in their representatives.”
In addition to Clinton and Comey, the amendment targets Rice, who some conservatives argue inappropriately sought the identities of people close to Trump — in a process known as “unmasking” — whose communications were captured after the election in surveillance of foreigners by U.S. spy agencies.
The conservative co-sponsors ask the Justice Department to say whether Comey had advance knowledge of Rice’s unmasking request.
Other information sought includes communication between Comey and special counsel Robert Mueller before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing last month in which the former FBI director described his interactions with Trump, and evidence of “any or all” leaks by Comey to New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt dating to 1993.
It is disgusting you have to have legislation to get DOJ/FBI to do its job.
This is where it should start. Otherwise it gets overshadowed by “Russia, Russia, Russia”.
In order to put the pices of the puzzle together, why stop at those two?
They should add:
Obama
Lynch
Bill Clinton
Chelsea
Huma
Clinton Foundation
John Koskinen
Debbie Wasserman Shultz
The Clinton Attorney hired by Mueller
Valerie Jarrett
John Podesta
Erik Holder
Lois Lerner
Susan Rice
John Brennan
John Corzine
Terry McAuliffe
Shervin Neman
Alberto and Carlos Cardona
Solyndra Inc.
Bill Ayers
Vinod Gupta
Victor Dahdaleh
Sant Chatwal
Gulnara Karimova
Amar Singh
Claudio Osorio
Gilbert Chagoury
IMHO this is why Trump is jacking up Sessions.
I've got your back side if you've got mine!!!
Filed and amendment? LOL. Indeed they did. Investigation via legislation, how quaint. Why don’t these pillars of the community just send a letter to Sessions and demand answers?
These mookabookers belong in prison.
The justice dept has been dragging its feet to protect these criminals.
NO confidence in the justice dept or the entire federal gub mint.
Worthless, expensive horsecrap it is.
Where are the congressional oversight committees investigating these matters, or are these Republican controlled committees too busy investigating Russia, Russia, Russia and calling Trump associates,. past and present, to testify.
That little worm Kasich must be guilty of something.