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House committee subpoenas FBI, Justice over Trump dossier
In the most significant escalation yet in the wrangling between Congress and the FBI over the Trump dossier, the House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed the bureau and the Justice Department for documents relating to the dossier, the FBI's relationship with dossier author Christopher Steele, and the bureau's possible role in supporting what began as an opposition research project against candidate Donald Trump in the final months of last year's presidential campaign.
The subpoenas are an indication of growing frustration inside the committee over the FBI and Justice Department's lack of cooperation in the Trump-Russia investigation.
The committee issued the subpoenas -- one to the FBI, an identical one to the Justice Department -- on August 24, giving both until last Friday, September 1, to turn over the information.
Neither FBI nor Justice turned over the documents, and now the committee has given them an extension until September 14 to comply.
Illustrating the seriousness with which investigators view the situation, late Tuesday the committee issued two more subpoenas, specifically to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, directing them to appear before the committee to explain why they have not provided the subpoenaed information.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/house-committee-subpoenas-fbi-justice-over-trump-dossier/article/2633466
Hunt for Trump dossier author inflames Russia probe
An overseas trip to contact a former British spy exposes friction among House, Senate investigators and special counsel Robert Mueller.
By ALI WATKINS
08/04/2017 05:07 AM EDT
Two Republican House Intelligence Committee staffers traveled to London earlier this summer to track down the former British intelligence operative who compiled a controversial dossier on President Donald Trump and Russia, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The previously unreported trip underscores the importance of the 35-page dossier Christopher Steele wrote last year to congressional probes into possible collusion between Moscow and the 2016 Trump campaign.
It also has inflamed simmering tensions between House and Senate investigators as they pursue simultaneous probes into the Trump-Russia connection. House Intelligence Committee Republicans did not tell Democrats on the panel, the Senate Intelligence Committee nor special counsel Robert Muellers office that the investigators were pursuing Steele.
The House staffers left their contact information at two addresses associated with Steele, a former agent for Britains MI6 foreign intelligence service. One of those locations was Steeles lawyers office, where the former spy was meeting with his counsel when the House investigators showed up.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/04/trump-steele-dossier-russia-241299
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)I guess the House is on a one way street
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)The DOJ and the FBI are no longer representatives of the USA's people.
longship
(40,416 posts)Ignore what they say. Watch what they do.
If you do not have Cable, Listen on her audio podcast!
Point your podcast aggregator towards Rachel Maddow. Her program is posted nightly, after about 11PM.
I always get it and listen. There's also a video podcast if one has download availability. The audio version is only 10MB, which is perfect for us cellular INet subscribers. The video version is bigger.
Just do it. Rachel is wonderful, which is why she's number one on Cable News.
Subscribe to her podcasts, video or audio. There is no longer any excuse.
Love Rachel!
I caught a couple of 15 minute clips on the nBC news app on Roku not the full hour. Where would I find a podcast?
longship
(40,416 posts)Just search on Rachel Maddow. My iPhone and iPad both have apps called Podcast. They're not the best apps, but they work well enough.
There are many free podcast aggregators. If you don't have one Google is your friend. Find one without ad pop ups.
Native
(5,942 posts)Last edited Wed Sep 6, 2017, 09:56 AM - Edit history (1)
said normal course of business is to request information/docs via letter, not subpoena. If they don't comply with the request, then, and only then, is a subpoena used. I didn't quite understand his logic, but he stated that he believed the heavy-handedness by the repukes on the committee (the dems were against issuing subpoenas) were to discredit Steele & Mueller's investigation.
On edit - here's an article: http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/schiff-says-republicans-trying-to-discredit-mueller-investigation