House Republicans Use New FBI Investigation To Ignore FBI Concerns About Nunes Memo

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The bureau asked for more time to look at the committee's explosive report but was turned down. The excuse? The committee is looking into the FBI.

BETSY WOODRUFF
SPENCER ACKERMAN
01.30.18 2:58 PM ET

House intelligence committee Republicans have a new, secretive investigation into the FBI—and they’re using it to justify freezing out the bureau from the release of a memo accusing it of abusing its power, The Daily Beast has learned.

The memo mentions Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, as well as Andrew McCabe and James Comey—formerly the FBI’s two most powerful officials—as The Daily Beast reported last week. Monday night, committee Republicans voted against giving the FBI more of a voice on the memo’s release, citing their own investigation into the bureau.

During the meeting Rep. Mike Quigley of Illinois moved to give the FBI more time to discuss the memo’s allegations with the committee—as well as any concerns about its release—before making the memo public, according to Quigley and Rep. Jim Himes, a top committee Democrat. Republicans blocked the motion. Another source familiar with the meeting shared the same account.

When a Democrat on the committee asked why Republicans opposed granting the FBI this courtesy, Devin Nunes, the committee’s Republican chairman and a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, gave an answer some found surprising, Himes told The Daily Beast. Nunes said he opposed giving the FBI more time to discuss the memo with the committee because the FBI itself, as well as the Justice Department, is under investigation, according to all three sources.

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