Posted on 01/03/2018 3:31:03 PM PST by mojito
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Chris Wray made an unannounced visit to Speaker Paul Ryan's office Wednesday as the Justice Department grapples with an increasingly hostile faction of House Republicans demanding documents related to the bureau's Russia probe.
Rosenstein was spotted entering Ryan's office, and a spokesman for the speaker confirmed that Rosenstein and Wray had requested the meeting. A second person familiar with the meeting said it was related to a document request issued over the summer by House intelligence committee chairman Devin Nunes.
Nunes (R-Calif) has mounted an aggressive push — with the threat of contempt citations for members of the FBI and Justice Department — to glean more information about how the FBI handled a disputed dossier alleging illicit ties between President Donald Trump and the Kremlin.
“Unfortunately, DOJ/FBI's intransigence with respect to the August 24 subpoenas is part of a broader pattern of behavior that can no longer be tolerated,” Nunes wrote to Rosenstein in a letter provided to Fox News last week.
Nunes is seeking details about meetings between FBI officials and those who helped compile the dossier. He also demanded interviews with a slate of top FBI officials. And he's floated the notion of issuing contempt resolutions against Rosenstein and Wray if they fail to comply.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I actually was thinking that some RINOs would make that very point - about protecting the institution - as a reason to try and bury what they did the last 24 months.
No, I don’t think so. I don’t agree with Ryan on everything or even most things, but I think he’s honest and I think he’s seriously PO’d.
"House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday [10/25/2017] accused The Trump administration’s Justice Department of “stonewalling“ lawmakers’ requests for documents that spell out who paid for a dossier on Donald Trump.
“We’ve had these document requests with the administration, with the FBI in particular, for a long time and they’ve been stonewalling,” Ryan told Reuters, adding that the department and the FBI need to comply with the requests “and they need to do it immediately.”
Ryan was responding to a question about a Washington Post report on Tuesday that said the campaign of Trump’s Democratic rival for the White House, Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic National Committee had helped fund research that became a dossier of allegations about Trump’s connections to Russia.”
It could very well be that this meeting is about handing the requested information over.
It could very well be that this meeting is about handing the requested information over.
Which of course they don’t want to do. They need to protect the bureau...
Representative Jim Jordan Has Questions…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/03/representative-jim-jordan-has-questions/
There is nothing that a battalion of Marines showing up at DOJ and FBI can’t cure.
5.56mm
As crooked seeming as Lynch and Clinton on the tarmac.
Did Mitch come in through Ryan’s side door to help scheme cover-up?
We shall see how this plays out. Those clowns at the FBI and DOJ have had ample time to turn over the documents. Maybe they feel that Ryan is RINO that they can work with.
This is nothing more than the Clinton/Lynch tarmac meting. Why isn’t this a conflict of interest?
Call me naive, but I think there's a good chance that this meeting is about arranging for the delivery of the information Nunes has demanded. Ryan is already on record as being PO'ed at DOJ/FBI "stonewalling."
Looks like WRAY is DIRTY and CORRUPT ALSO!! Will the Last HONORABLE person PlEASE turn out the lights when you leave DC!
twb
Where was Sessions? Or is Rod RosenWeasel still Rip van Sessions’ boss?
Intimidation and blackmail?
I am all for each branch maintaining its prerogatives, but the FBI was created by Congress and is not a constitutionally mandated part of the executive branch even though it is supervised by same.
Congress should and does have some oversight. This Oversight is even more important when for the last few years any warm body could tell that the agency is totally rotten with corruption and out of control idiocy.
Cut it down to about 30% of its size and give it some damn dignity. It is Banana Republic material as it now stands.
We'll know what's what in a few hours - either Wray and Rosenstein have agreed to turn over the information that congress is constitutionally allowed to have, or federal law enforcement has gone rogue and are a law unto themselves.
We have NO hope except in Trump now.......Ryan, Mitch, Sessions....ALL of the FBI and “JUST US” Depts are CORRUPT.
Was Eddie flying around with “the golfer” Lynch?
“...could result in lasting damage to the perception of the agency as an independent arbiter of the law.”
I think the scale of this is starting to become a problem for swamp-man Ryan.
Involved in illegal misconduct to interfere in an election just in the DOJ/FBI:
FBI: Director, Deputy Director, FBI General Counsel, Assist Dir Counter Intelligence, Deputy Asst Dir CI... + numerous others
DOJ: Attorney General, Deputy Atty Gen, Associate Dep Att Gen, Asst Dep Att Gen, National Security Division, Principal Asst Dep Att Gen, NSD... and on and on
The scale of this is starting to look like the Dreyfus Affair.
The full criminality and corruption of the DC Swamp legal and law enforcement “elite” is about to become uncloaked.
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