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Deputy AG, FBI director make unannounced visit to Paul Ryan's office
Politico ^ | 1/3/2018 | Kyle Cheney

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 ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: california; christopherwray; devinnunes; doj; dossier; fbi; fisa; jamescomey; nunes; paulryan; peterstrzok; robertmueller; rodentstein; rodrosenstein; rosenstein; ryan; wisconsin; wray
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To: Bookshelf

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.


21 posted on 01/03/2018 3:47:49 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: House Atreides

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.


22 posted on 01/03/2018 3:49:54 PM PST by livius
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To: Hotlanta Mike
Also remember that back in October, Ryan came out and accused the FBI and DOJ of “stonewalling” congress on the dossier issue:

"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.”

https://nypost.com/2017/10/25/ryan-says-justice-department-is-stonewalling-requests-for-dossier-info/

It could very well be that this meeting is about handing the requested information over.

23 posted on 01/03/2018 3:50:04 PM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: mojito

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/


24 posted on 01/03/2018 3:52:47 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: mojito

There is nothing that a battalion of Marines showing up at DOJ and FBI can’t cure.

5.56mm


25 posted on 01/03/2018 3:53:20 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: mojito

As crooked seeming as Lynch and Clinton on the tarmac.


26 posted on 01/03/2018 3:54:18 PM PST by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: WayneS

Did Mitch come in through Ryan’s side door to help scheme cover-up?


27 posted on 01/03/2018 3:54:24 PM PST by Rebelbase (The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)
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To: mojito

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.


28 posted on 01/03/2018 3:54:32 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: mojito

This is nothing more than the Clinton/Lynch tarmac meting. Why isn’t this a conflict of interest?


29 posted on 01/03/2018 3:55:45 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: PAR35
Blackmailing Ryan into squelching the Congressional investigation?

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."

30 posted on 01/03/2018 3:56:08 PM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: Salvavida
Oh..... like Benghazi Clinton testimony?
31 posted on 01/03/2018 3:58:58 PM PST by wardamneagle
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To: mojito

Looks like WRAY is DIRTY and CORRUPT ALSO!! Will the Last HONORABLE person PlEASE turn out the lights when you leave DC!


32 posted on 01/03/2018 3:59:30 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: mojito
Rosenstein declined to produce the documents. This is a constitutional crises.
TWB

twb

33 posted on 01/03/2018 4:02:21 PM PST by TWhiteBear (H)
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To: mojito

Where was Sessions? Or is Rod RosenWeasel still Rip van Sessions’ boss?


34 posted on 01/03/2018 4:02:37 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: mojito

Intimidation and blackmail?


35 posted on 01/03/2018 4:03:19 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: mojito

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.


36 posted on 01/03/2018 4:05:45 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Ann Archy
Looks like WRAY is DIRTY and CORRUPT ALSO!!

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.

37 posted on 01/03/2018 4:06:13 PM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: mojito

We have NO hope except in Trump now.......Ryan, Mitch, Sessions....ALL of the FBI and “JUST US” Depts are CORRUPT.


38 posted on 01/03/2018 4:07:54 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: mojito

Was Eddie flying around with “the golfer” Lynch?


39 posted on 01/03/2018 4:08:18 PM PST by RS_Rider (I hate Illinois Nazis)
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To: DJ Frisat

“...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.


40 posted on 01/03/2018 4:11:20 PM PST by Reverend Wright (The CBC: Deceiving Canadians since 1936.)
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