Posted on 05/14/2019 6:08:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The House Intelligence Committee is investigating whether attorneys representing President Donald Trump, his family and the Trump Organization misled the committee or obstructed its Russia investigation in the preparation of Michael Cohen's false 2017 statement to Congress, according to letters obtained by CNN.
House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff sent letters in March to four lawyers who were part of the President's joint defense agreement asking for documents and testimony related to the crafting of Cohen's 2017 statement to the committee and any discussions of presidential pardons.
But the Trump lawyers rejected the request in a letter responding to Schiff, accusing the committee of overreaching in its oversight request and raising attorney-client privilege concerns.
In a followup sent this month, Schiff set a deadline for the end of last week for the attorneys to cooperate. Schiff is prepared to issue a subpoena if the attorneys won't cooperate, a senior committee official said.
Schiff rejected the notion that the material would be covered by attorney-client privilege, while arguing that Cohen submitted a statement that was "coordinated, reviewed, shaped and edited" by the attorneys. Schiff said that Cohen's statement had "false materials" and "omission of fact" with the "intended effect of impeding the investigation."
The requests for documents went to the President's lawyer Jay Sekulow, Ivanka Trump's lawyer Abbe Lowell, Donald Trump Jr.'s lawyer Alan Futerfas and Trump Organization lawyer Alan Garten.
The New York Times first reported the document requests.
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Of course Shiff-A will ignore the reality that the FBI knew Steele was not a credible source for the ‘dossier’ a week before they told the FISA court that he was verified and trustworthy.
How in the living hell could someone like Joe McCarthy be brought down for telling the truth, yet Schitt and Nadler the Hutt are still in power supporting proven lies!
“House Intelligence Committee Chair”? Really? I guess if Congress admitted blathering idiots like AOC, flaming anti-American, antisemite spies like Omar and Rashid, it could also have a simple minded pencil neck like Schiff as chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Obviously you don’t have to have intelligence yourself to chair such a committee, L-rd help us. Perhaps Schiff will find his true calling being in charge of paperclip inventory in the House; his obvious singlemindedness could find a useful outlet in such an activity.
These damn Dems are still in power because THEY always circle the wagons and NEVER step down, our side are a bunch of PANSIES that dont fight for ANYTHING!!! I can guarantee you that if Trump were not POTUS Kavanaugh would have been thrown under the first bus by our own side, they are WEAK, beyond belief, MAKES ME SICK!!!
Schiff truly nauseates me, he looks like a pedophile he REALLY DOES!!!
Didn’t Schiff meet secretly with Cohen before his testimony?
Yeah he Booker have that “ I touch little boys” look in their eyes. Despicable the whole lot.
Yeah they met.
I thought Schiff prepared Cohen for his testimony.
"Yeah he Booker have that
I touch little boys look in their eyes."
a simple minded pencil neck like Schiff...
Pencil neck means he has a long neck.
The term was usually associated as a
Pencil necked geek. A geek was the guy
at the carny who bit the head off chickens...
I suspect Schiff probes all kinds of guys.
The Schiff will be rolling downhill soon.
Schiffty should look into Mueller’s lawyers. They all belonged to Cankles.
Both he and Nadler look like level 4 sex offenders.
Level 4 half of the rat party members.
LEVEL 4: Sexually Violent Predator refers to a person who has been adjudicated guilty of a sex offense or acquitted on the grounds of mental disease or defect of a sex offense that makes the person likely to engage in predatory sex offenses
shouldn’t Shifty Schiff be laying low until the Ethics Committee comes back with their ruling on the ethics complaint made by Judicial Watch on Mar 11?
Because we’d much rather hear more about 10 hours of coaching Cohen pre-hearing appearance - surely it was about more than the grandkids and golf scores. Instead, he wants us to focus on half a dozen lawyers repeating exactly what they stated 4 months ago - there were no additions or deletions to Cohen’s statement written by his own attnys.
Picking at scabs. Have fun, pencil neck.
“But the Trump lawyers rejected the request in a letter responding to Schiff, accusing the committee of overreaching in its oversight request and raising attorney-client privilege concerns.”
Right answer. The only answer it deserves.
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