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.
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if congress and ag do nothing we the people may have to march on dc and demand justice...if justice is not done and soon i am, afraid vigilantes might activate. nothing is left
Rosenstein and Wray probably showed Ryan his FBI file.
The level of cynicism that Americans have about the DOJ and the FBI is positivily Soviet
The Secret Service, uh, I mean the taxpayers, pay the Clinton mortgages by paying outrageous rent on their little sheds on the Clinton properties. I bet they got drunk one night and just burned the damned shed down.
Well, they brought something, otherwise why cart the briefcase?
I am convinced that is why they did not get to the bottom of the IRS scandal. Everyone in Washington depends on the IRS as does he government itself. If the people knew how corrupt it was they’d refuse to pay their taxes and the government would collapse.
Ryan is not trustworthy.
Nice synopsis! Thanks!
They’re trying to go over Nunes’ head. Let’s see if Ryan caves...he better not
They came to whine about having to obey the law?
So the sons of a bitches ignore scheduled appearances in front of committees, and then stroll in some wednesday afternoon?
If Congress wasn’t completely deballed, they would pass legislation disbanding the FBI, and eliminating the deputy AG’s position just for this stunt ALONE.
they are blackmailing congress with nude photos of McCain and McConnell inflagrante delecti
Yep...more lies.
Well, if they stonewall Congress and create a Constitutional Crisis, then Trump has all the cover he needs to fire Sessions, Rosenstein and Wray...amongst others in DOJ/FBI.
Sounds like a textbook case of obstruction of justice.
Putting the fix in the deal in broad daylight like Bill Clinton meeting with Lynch on the tarmac in Phoenix.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
We have a winnah!
So, bigbob nails it. The slow walk, presently, is because the DOJ and FBI folks don’t quite know what the OIG has, by way of original documents, unredacted. They want to see that before they surrender their ‘doctored’ documents, redacted and ‘selected’.
This could be fun!
Three Anti-Trumpers putting their heads together? What could go wrong?
Sounds like a textbook case of obstruction of justice.
Does this implicate Ryan too if he stands in the way of Nunes' deadline and gives these turds cover? Can't imagine there's a way can Ryan do that without being complicit directly or indirectly.
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