Posted on 06/23/2018 2:38:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Justice Department says it has given House Republicans new classified information related to the Russia investigation after lawmakers had threatened to hold officials in contempt of Congress or even impeach them.
A spokeswoman for House Speaker Paul Ryan said Saturday that the department has partially complied with subpoenas from the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees after officials turned over more than a thousand new documents this week. House Republicans had given the Justice Department and FBI a Friday deadline for all documents, most of which are related to the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation and the handling of its probe into Democrat Hillary Clinton’s emails. Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong said the department asked for more time and they will get it — for now.
“Our efforts have resulted in the committees finally getting access to information that was sought months ago, but some important requests remain to be completed,” Strong said in a statement Saturday. “Additional time has been requested for the outstanding items, and based on our understanding of the process we believe that request is reasonable. We expect the department to meet its full obligations to the two committees.” […]
The department is also working to provide outstanding documents related to former British spy Christopher Steele, [the Justice Department’s acting assistant director of congressional affairs, Jill] Tyson said, and the dossier he compiled of anti-Trump research during the presidential campaign. Trump and congressional Republicans have charged that the research in the dossier, paid for by Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, was used inappropriately to obtain the warrant on Page. …
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It’s stalling, nothing more. It’s just more cover for the house and senate commodities to not do their jobs.
...The department is also working to provide outstanding documents related to former British spy Christopher Steele...
Lots of things deep State DOJ doesn’t want revealed.
Ryan is the problem.
Yep, they’re always going to get tough and mean it, by golly gosh gee, up the road. All of them (on “our” side, I mean. The left pushes until we cave, and we always do).
“”Additional time has been requested for the outstanding items, and based on our understanding of the process we believe that request is reasonable.””
That request is absolutely absurd!! What would be useful would be for Ryan and his staff to understand ANYTHING!
Sessions, Rosestein and Wray apparently fail to understand the meaning of ALL. It’s time they learned, Cogress needs to impeach each of them. Enough of this stall tactics BS. Get on with it already!
Stalling yep. They will strategically hold back the most damaging docs each time.
“Limited Hang Out”; “Modified Limited Hang Out”...
I heard them used somewhere long ago.
who to believe, who to believe? not DOJ not Ryan !
You owe me $1 Million.
Here’s 17.50. More’s coming.
Don’t let the DOJ dribble this stuff out. It’s the same as 100% the same as not complying at all.
Given the time that has passed on these oversight requests, either get it ALL or go after these bureaucrats with a hammer and tong! Don’t let them set the precedent of partial compliance being OK.
Well, Horowitz did not say that he did not find bias. What a guy.
Never mind Comey not knowing that he knew about Huma Abedin being married to Anthony Weiner.
The RINOs will be fiery on rhetoric so long as it gets them re-elected. Remember back in 2012 the promises to “repeal Obamacare”, quickly followed by “repeal and replace Obamacare” once it was certain they were going to win, and then fully funding Obamacare (refusing to de-fund, even) while in power?
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Same exact gameplan as Lois Lerner.
Deny the Prosecutor, have IG deliver toothless report after toothless report, 7 years later, nothing.
IG Horowitz cleared Eric Holder, too.
Rod Rosenstein was Lois Lerner’s right hand man.
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No it is the new law enforcement policy which came out on the 12th.
They are testing the new policy out to see if there is teeth in it. I suspect that they are going to get an education real fast.
They got shi! and are too dumb to realize it
i think tey realize but someone is blocking them from forcing the issue
They are as much of obfuscators and stallers as their friends in the DOJ are. They did make some nice rhetorical soundbites out of it, but if they get back in later this year versus being pushed out by conservatives, they’ll be back to their usual RINO Uniparty nonsense.
“Additional time has been requested for the outstanding items, and based on our understanding of the process we believe that request is reasonable.”
WHY?
They are months past compliance.
Why not just send in the US Marshalls to box up everything - like the did to Cohen -
Just giving them time to deep six the worst evidence
Getting sick of the Congrss wienies -
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