DOJ denies House Freedom Caucus request to review Mueller's directive: report
BY JOHN BOWDEN - 05/02/18 01:42 PM EDT
The Department of Justice sent a letter to the House Freedom Caucus on Wednesday declining the conservatives' request to view an unredacted memo detailing the scope of Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation.
The Washington Examiner reports that Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote to lawmakers today informing them that turning over the memo would "threaten the integrity" of Mueller's ongoing investigation into possible collusion between President Trump's campaign and Russia.
“Although we are working to accommodate the requests of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in a number of oversight matters, we cannot provide the requested information pertaining to the Special Counsel’s ongoing investigation consistent with longstanding principles of investigatory independence," Boyd writes in the letter.
A redacted version of the August 2017 memo signed by deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, which was made public in court filings, authorizes the Mueller investigation and directs Mueller to investigate whether Trump officials “committed a crime or crimes by colluding with Russian government officials.”
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