Congress intel committee wants documents on Russia election probe

[sabra]

Source: brisbane times

Washington: The House of Representatives Intelligence Committee called on the Trump administration on Wednesday to provide them with what they expect will be thousands of documents related to the investigation of Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election.

The request may be an effort to avoid a repeat of an unusual document access arrangement made between the Senate Intelligence Committee and CIA to review information related to enhanced interrogation techniques at secret overseas "black site" prisons during the George W. Bush administration.

Under that arrangement, Senate investigators were limited to reviewing documents on a shared computer network set up at a Central Intelligence Agency facility, which later led to accusations the agency had spied on the work of congressional staffers.

"It will not be adequate to review these documents, expected to be in the thousands of pages, at the agencies. They should be delivered to the House Intelligence Committee to provide members adequate time to examine their content," Representatives Devin Nunes, the committee's Republican chairman, and Adam Schiff, its top Democrat, said in a joint statement.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/congress-intel-committee-wants-documents-on-russia-election-probe-20170125-gtysck

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. Joint statement from a Republican and a Democrat.

This sounds serious.

But, the Brisbane Times? Where is the US media?

[Freethinker65]

5. ? I also thought the source was odd

[canetoad]

11. Part of the Fairfax Group

Along with the Age & Sydney Morning Herald. Not unusual to break US news.

[woodsprite]

2. I hope someone makes copies of them before sending them to the committee.

I don't trust any politician with an "R" after their name, and damned few with a "D".

[cstanleytech]

6. I would trust 99% of those with a "D" but only 0.01% of those with an "R".

[lark]

3. Bet the shredders at the CIA are going full speed.

Orange assface has probably assigned certain very loyal individuals to oversee the shredding because he knows CIA wouldn't piss on him if he were on fire.

Asking for the truth from him, ha, no chance of that at all. He's been fined by the government for shredding documents under subpoena 22 times, this will be time #23.

There is no truth, there is no justice, everything is all about enriching Trumplethinskin or his oligarch friends who will bribe him in the manner he wants to become accustomed to. We are so fucked.

[cstanleytech]

7. Why should they? The odds are they didnt find any evidence of major fraud in the election and

what this would show is that Trump is lying his ass off.

[lark]

8. Nope, this isn't about illegals voting, it's about Russia colluding to influence the election.

He doesn't want that to come out and will be doing his utmost to get everything they have destroyed. Hope they are keeping duplicates hidden of all their Russia information, because Drumpf will have his folks looking for it, first priority.

[cstanleytech]

10. Ah, my bad there has just been so much on this story with Russia thats its all become one big blur.

[shraby]

9. It was stated the other day on the news that when they start an investigation, all documents

related to the investigation have to be preserved. No exceptions.
There are penalties for not preserving them.