Republicans Seek Obama Era Docs From DHS on Russian Election Interference

Sara Carter.com ^ | 5 March 2019 | Sara Carter

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Republican lawmakers Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows requested a slew of Obama era documents and communications Tuesday related to “attempted interference in the” 2016 election from Department of Homeland Security Kirsjen Nielsen.

In a letter the lawmakers noted “then-DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson briefed Members of Congress about attempted Russian interference. During the briefing – which also included President Obama’s National Security Advisor Lisa Monaco and then-FBI Director James Comey – the Obama Administration assured Members that it was adequately addressing any attempted interference in the election.”

Jordan, R-Ohio, and Meadows, R-NC, both members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, requested that Nielson provide all the documents and materials before March 19.

Documents and Materials requested: All documents and communications created, prepared, or used for the purpose of briefing members of Congress about the threat of foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election;

All documents created, prepared, or used for the purpose of briefing campaign officials about the threat of foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election;

All documents and communications between or among Secretary Johnson or any other DHS employee, Director Comey or any other FBI employee, or Lisa Monaco or any other National Security Council employee referring to relating to briefing members of Congress about the Russian Government’s attempts to interfere in the 2016 election; and

All documents and communications produced to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs responsive to Chairman Johnson’s request of June 6, 2018.

These documents are sure to shed light on what the Obama Administration claimed to have had as far as evidence regarding Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. It’s also certain that there will be very enlightening information contained in the communications between the Obama officials and shed some light on what actually transpired during the election cycle.

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

About time.

[neverevergiveup]

Obama, and the crowd he is representative of, are so delusional and convinced that they are saviors of the world, and the keepers of truth and light, that they have no difficulty at all rationalizing anything they do to promote their agenda. Lying, framing people, promoting vote fraud, assisting illegals in pushing rapid shifts in American demographics, laundering money, even threatening and killing people - are all justified by the ‘righteousness’ of their agenda and the ‘calling’ they have to ‘greatness’ in saving the world. It’s pathetic, immature, selfish, and destructive, but they don’t recognize how wrong, pathetic, and delusional they are.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

OMG, award these geniuses the Nobel Prize for coming up with this incredibly complex angle only 2.5 years after the fact. I mean, this stuff takes time to formulate.

[redshawk]

Finally after two years. ......why? What was the delay?

[Equine1952]

I’m going out on a limb here and assume you could have added a /s after your post. Over two years and the crap we’ve put up with, and we are out here yelling at them to pull their heads out of their arse and investigate Obama. Both houses in their control and they didn’t do Schift.

[free_life]

2 years late but go go go do it....investigate them all, seize everything. Go after Obama’s both of them, Jarred, Lynch, Holder, Clinton’s and their bogus foundation, Comey, Clapper, Brennan, McCabe, Robinstein, Styrok and his girlfriend Lisa Page, Schiff, Harris...all of them non stop. This is how you fight this Trump witch hunt that is also going after everyone he knows. Republicans we are in a war...fight you cowards!

[hardspunned]

Another request soon to be followed by a nasty letter. Jim and Mark will get zip. The Obama era swampsters who run the government will get a hearty laugh.

[llevrok]

You give me a hot foot. I’ll burn down your house.

[Equine1952]

True. They don’t really want to do anything about any of this. The Russians will never nuke DC because they are killing us faster than the Russians ever could. We damn well ought to blockade some places. DC, LA, San Fran, Vancouver, Seattle, Detroit, and Chicago. That’s for starters.

[Ann Archy]

OMG! SLOW FOOTED, SLOW WITTED once again! Hey Pubs....just look at how FAST the Democrats move on getting info.....LEARN!!!

[trebb]

I wonder if they weren't letting extra rope out for the Dems to use on themselves....as we approach a new election cycle.

One can hope....

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: provide all the documents and materials before March 19. ::

Interdasting choice of date. Might be characterized as a “drop dead” date?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

It may turn out that way; but I don’t wonder if the Repubs did something canny-smart like Trump seems to regularly pull off. The odds of that having occurred are negligible. This should have been the chant from no later than day #3 after the “Russia” accusation was first excreted by the Dems. Instead, the entire pathology was allowed to take root and blossom into two seasons of nonsense.

[VRWCarea51]

They probably had to drain the swamp of critters who like the IRS would have lost all documents and files associated with it had they made the attempt earlier.

[redshawk]

Seems like a good answer to me.