Posted on 01/03/2018 3:22:49 PM PST by SSS Two
The FBI director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein met with House Speaker Paul Ryan late Wednesday afternoon, the same day lawmakers were demanding that they turn over documents to the House Intelligence panel about the Trump-Russia collusion probe.
A Ryan spokeswoman declined to discuss the purpose for the meeting other than that it came at the request of Wray and Rosenstein.
The meeting comes as the House Intelligence Committee weighs possible contempt of Congress charges against the two officials. Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., has accused the men of withholding information about the handling of the Trump-Russia collusion probe. The panel gave the two a Jan. 3 deadline to comply with their request for additional documents.
Nunes has accused the FBI and Department of Justice of a “months-long pattern … of stonewalling and obstructing this committee's oversight work.”
Those accusations boiled over last month after stories were leaked to the New York Times and Washington Post saying that FBI agent Peter Strzok, a key investigator in the Trump-Russian probe, was removed from the Russia probe after exchanging text messages critical of Trump to another FBI agent he was involved with romantically. Republicans had been seeking information about why he was removed but were never told anything by FBI or Justice Department directly.
Nunes had also been seeking information about the FBI and Justice Department's use of the Steele dossier, which contains damning but unverified information about President Trump.
Collusion on display!
Swimming outing in the swamp?
I will be shocked of Ryan allow any hardball tactics against the slime at DJ or FBI.
Bump
Rudolph Hess had more integrity than this scumbag.
Ryan has lost his mind.
FBI and DOJ feeling the heat?
I truly hope Congress moves to hold them in contempt. What’s their excuse—Mueller probe? They can’t be allowed to hide behind it. Friken give Nunes what he wants or resign. Or get held in contempt, which will absolutely lead to their firing. And rightly so. Enough!!!
And while we’rs on it, let’s see the FISC warrant application in its entirety! Declassify and release! Let the chips fall where they may.
This is a stinking pile of bull$hit.
BOHICA
Wray, Rosenstein and Ryan? With these kinds of meetings, the swamp isn't going to be drained.
And where's Sessions.
FBI & DOJ making some demands of their own, I’ll wager — telling Ryan to get Nunes under control.
It probably is their excuse and you're right that it doesn't hold water. Essentially they would be saying "we cannot comply with your investigation of us because we're currently investigating ourselves and cannot comment on an ongoing investigation." Which is to say, they are lawless. Just declare themselves out of bounds for any congressional oversight whenever they want to with that line of thinking.
“FBI & DOJ making some demands of their own, I’ll wager — telling Ryan to get Nunes under control.”
Yes, that is what I think this meeting was about.
Whatever the reason, sooner or later somebody has to put their cards on the table.
They need his help hiding the information from discovery, they are scared and cornered
Let’s see if Ryan is going to obstuct justice too.
“The panel gave the two a Jan. 3 deadline to comply with their request for additional documents. “
SO.... did they ?
?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.
He has his mind. It's his soul he's lost.
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