Posted on 01/05/2018 7:14:45 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said his panel now has the access to documents and witnesses it needs from the FBI and Justice Department to pursue its inquiry into the role the notorious “Trump dossier” funded in part by the Hillary Clinton campaign played in sparking the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
The California Republican said the panel could move ahead shortly after a closed-door meeting between GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray Wednesday evening broke a stalemate over the committee’s access to records surrounding the FBI’s handling of the suspect dossier, which claimed there were significant ties between the Kremlin and then-candidate Donald Trump and his aides.
The new agreement means the House panel will get “access to all the documents and witnesses we have requested,” Mr. Nunes said in statement, setting up a series of potentially high-drama hearings in the new year. Fox News said the deal requires the Justice Department to turn over many of the requested materials as early as Friday.
While special counsel Robert Mueller III is probing possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, Mr. Nunes has spearheaded a separate line of inquiry into how the FBI first began probing the politically charged allegations, and what role the dossier of unverified opposition research played in that decision.
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Last time I checked, when my boss asks for a report, he gets it. Congress has shirked its duty for far too long.
The FBI evidently, finally, got the documents doctored the way they wanted them.
I’ve been reading that Rod Rosenstein only took some of the information and intentionally left others. Has that changed?
Special counsel investigating a non-crime.
This is going to be amusing when it all unravels.
Exactly!
more a matter of timing and procedural uses for the documents than “if”.
Interesting headline. No bias there. /s
The FBI is not “forking over” any documents. They’re allowing Congress to come view printouts of the documents at a location that DOJ/FBI designates. That’s vastly different from providing electronic copies (not scanned copies but actual copies of the electronic records) that can be subject to forensic examination including analysis of the metadata.
REMEMBER, SATAN NEVER SLEEPS. I would not trust the weasel Rosensteel one iota.
What was the cause of the stalemate??????
They aren’t going to hand over zilch of any real incriminating documents.
All this is far greater and deeper corruption than Watergate ever was. The FBI in conspiracy to take down a presidential candidate. Utter treason on a grand scale.
Congress is not the boss of the FBI. That would be the DOJ under sleepy Jeffrey who in turn reports to President Trump. This hasn’t been an issue with Congress. This lays at the doorstep of the DOJ and our President
All these Congressional investigations sound great, but when is the last time Congress has actually done anything about malfeasance it finds during an “investigation”?
They would have to rely on the Justice Department to actually prosecute anyone based on evidence they might uncover. Does anyone actually think this Justice Department is interested in prosecuting itself?
Ahh...Rosenstein, not Rosensteel.
Caves?
Congress has oversight and sets budgets for DOJ and FBI.
Congress is not the boss of the FBI.Well except for the part where Congress can detain them for not complying with the subpoena.
That ever been used? The bottom line is if DOJ wanted to comply they would have. It would have been a 5 second phone call from President to Sessions to DOJ to FBI.
Comply...real simple
I think you figured it out. They’re printouts not legal documents not acceptable in the court of law.
The ghost of J. Edgar Hoover still runs the FBI.
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