Posted on 05/18/2020 4:26:00 PM PDT by RandFan
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced Monday evening that his panel will vote June 4 on a subpoena authorization to review documents and communications and solicit testimony from an array of senior Obama-era officials, including former FBI Director James Comey.
Graham announced in a press release that the subpoena vote will take place as part of his panel’s investigation into “FISA abuse” and the FBI probe “Crossfire Hurricane,” which investigated contacts between Trump advisers and Russian officials during the 2016 presidential election.
The subpoenas will cover “documents, communications and testimony from witnesses” including Comey, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan.
Under Senate Judiciary Committee rules, the chairman cannot unilaterally issue a subpoena and must either receive the consent of the ranking member, in this case Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), or secure a majority committee vote.
Graham and Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are spearheading Senate Republicans’ investigation into whether the FBI’s probe of the Trump campaign in 2016, which later evolved into former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of possible collusion between Trump advisers and Russian officials, was politically motivated.
Republicans last week touted a declassified National Security Agency document released by acting DNI Richard Grenell showing that 39 former senior Obama administration officials — including Comey, Clapper and Brennan — requested authority to know the identity of an American individual whose conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak were intercepted by U.S. intelligence.
That official turned out to be former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Flynn later pleaded guilt to charges of lying to federal investigators, but the Justice Department made headlines earlier this month when it announced it would drop the case against him, arguing agents had botched the matter and it was unclear if the charges could be proven.
Graham has said he is interested in investigating the unmasking of Flynn as well as the genesis of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump’s campaign.
His committee on Monday said it would seek to review documents and communications related to Crossfire Hurricane and the receipt and analysis of reports prepared by former British intelligence official Christopher Steele, who was at one time employed by a law firm on behalf of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Steele’s report was later provided to the FBI, which was already investigating the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russian officials.
Graham announced the subpoena authorization will first be listed on the agenda for the committee’s executive business meeting on May 21 and the committee will vote on the subpoena authorization at its June 4 executive business meeting.
Can the Republicans get a majority from this mess?
More than one deep state Republican there.
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/members
A committee chaired by Grahamnesty is where an investigation goes to die. He’ll make sure of that.
Tomorrow? There would be no chance for the Sunday talk shows to make anyone who might have voted Yes scared to. And since this upcoming weekend is a holiday weekend, that's no good either. So it needs to go another weekend , plus a couple of days to pressure anyone who still thinks subpeonas should be issued.
This is kabuki dance so Linda can say he put it to a vote and what can he do, it didn't pass.
What was Barr supposed to say, we are going to throw the bum in jail? He never said things may change once they get up the chain. Guess you want Trump to do things the way Barak did them and throw out judicial rights.
Clapper, Brennan, et al, will simply plead the 5th. Barr says there is a criminal investigation into the coup plotters so there is NO WAY any lawyer would allow their client to talk to congress now. No way.
It would be as stupid for them as it was for Trump to suggest he would talk directly to Mueller.
I don’t think they have anything to worry about with Graham though.... he has been getting to the bottom of it for 3 full years now. I am sure he will rush through a full and thorough investigation prior to the November election and make numerous appearances on Fox news to talk tough about it.
To be followed by Republican leaders all harrumphing in unison as they pledge to leave the Democrat’s cocktail parties 10 minutes earlier from now on as a protest against the Dem treachery (starting next year, of course).
Conservative radio talkers and TV hosts will all pronounce “tick-tock”, intone “they’re all going to prison!” and then yawn. Lather, rinse & repeat, as often as needed, ad infinitum.
Then you get a phone call from the GOP to donate? :)
He hasn’t done it yet. I’ll believe it when I see these felons being sworn in.
so many false dawns with Lindsey I think you’re right.
Hillary should be in the third year of her jail term right about now. How did that work out?
get on with it. Dems announce they want to talk to Bright and the next minute he’s in the spotlight and on the front pages of all FakeNewsMSM.
no more delays. make sure you have the vote, Graham.
let them plead the 5th if they wish. that would be telling in itself.
Oh, great. They won’t show or plead the 5th?
Why not tomorrow???
“You really think we’d get someplace with Obama and Biden? Do I want to see them in the headlines every day for the next four years? Just let them die away.”
The best way to permanently “prosecute and eliminate” Obama and Biden is to reelect Donald Trump in November.
A vote?
“Barr already said in effect it would be impolite and ungentlemanly of him and Durham to implicate Obama and Biden. Just pretend the two felons never were told!!”
Fitton is not buying this at all. He wants a Special Counsel and he’s right.
Subpoena them and make them take the 5th on camera. The optics would be delicious.
Barr won’t investigate biden/obama? Oh well. When prosecutions start, just list them as unindicted co-conspirators.
“Then you get a phone call from the GOP to donate? :)”
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I don’t know how I forgot that! Alternately, if you join the tv-radio personality’s all access premium website, that’ll suffice. “It’s happening this time for sure! Send me your money now - quick!”.
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