Posted on 01/05/2018 6:45:58 AM PST by SSS Two
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray met with House Speaker Paul Ryan this week to request that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee narrow the scope of a document request, according to a Politico report.
The committee had issued a request for documents and witness interviews related to the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. In the meeting with Rosenstein and Wray, Politico reported, Ryan suggested that the department release the full trove of requested documents.
The two sides eventually reached a deal, and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, announced that the Justice Department had agreed to "provide the committee with access to all the documents and witnesses" it had requested.
The meeting, which came at the request of Rosenstein and Wray, came as some congressional Republicans step up their criticism about the Justice Department's handling of the Russia probe, which, in particular, is looking at possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for Ryan, told Politico that the speaker "always expects the administration to comply with the House’s oversight requests, and he will support his chairmen when they make them."
Some Republican lawmakers have raised questions about partisanship in the Russia probe and whether investigators are unfairly targeting President Trump. Democrats, on the other hand, have accused Republicans of trying to protect the White House from a probe into potential wrongdoing.
Whose focus are you talking about? I'd say this applies only to the media and the public -- which is not a bad thing.
This is a distraction in the White House. They are not functioning on all cylinders when time must be devoted to putting out fires. It is hard enough to get things accomplished in the Federal Government without having to spend so much wasted energy. We want the White House to get things done without distractions. I am glad so much has been accomplished in one short year, despite the wasted energy on distractions designed to slow down Trump’s agenda.
Yes, very good news. He kept to his guns and waited for the process to catch up with what he knew and could not say.
This sure is better then that Chinese wall method back in the days of Gorelick. Throw it over the wall, no warning that it is coming, no confirmation that they caught it, no communication that they appreciate and value the effort.
If they could have caught Nunes leaking his knowledge, they would have punished him and made sure no one else ever saw the data. It must be juicy and I think it is all about how the unmasking was carried out, and I think it all goes back to VJ. Ultimately, she was the Svengali behind the Obama throne.
1. Most distractions in the White House are self-imposed.
2. I asked the question earlier on this thread about what exactly hasn't been accomplished with Trump's agenda due to these "distractions." I can't think of any, and nobody has posted any here.
“Only time will tell what games are being played.”
The trouble is, you don’t know what you don’t know, so even if games are being played, we’ll never know.
So hoping you are right.
So hoping you are right.
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Me, too.
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