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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse Republicans quietly investigate perceived corruption at DOJ, FBI
Source: Politico
A group of House Republicans has gathered secretly for weeks in the Capitol in an effort to build a case that senior leaders of the Justice Department and FBI improperly and perhaps criminally mishandled the contents of a dossier that describes alleged ties between President Donald Trump and Russia, according to four people familiar with their plans.
A subset of the Republican members of the House intelligence committee, led by Chairman Devin Nunes of California, has been quietly working parallel to the committee's high-profile inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. They haven't informed Democrats about their plans, but they have consulted with the House's general counsel.
The people familiar with Nunes' plans said the goal is to highlight what some committee Republicans see as corruption and conspiracy in the upper ranks of federal law enforcement. The group hopes to release a report early next year detailing their concerns about the DOJ and FBI, and they might seek congressional votes to declassify elements of their evidence.
That final product could ultimately be used by Republicans to discredit special counsel Robert Muellers investigation into whether any Trump aides colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign or possibly even to justify his dismissal, as some rank-and-file Republicans and Trump allies have demanded. (The president has said he is not currently considering firing Mueller.)
A subset of the Republican members of the House intelligence committee, led by Chairman Devin Nunes of California, has been quietly working parallel to the committee's high-profile inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. They haven't informed Democrats about their plans, but they have consulted with the House's general counsel.
The people familiar with Nunes' plans said the goal is to highlight what some committee Republicans see as corruption and conspiracy in the upper ranks of federal law enforcement. The group hopes to release a report early next year detailing their concerns about the DOJ and FBI, and they might seek congressional votes to declassify elements of their evidence.
That final product could ultimately be used by Republicans to discredit special counsel Robert Muellers investigation into whether any Trump aides colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign or possibly even to justify his dismissal, as some rank-and-file Republicans and Trump allies have demanded. (The president has said he is not currently considering firing Mueller.)
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/20/house-republicans-quietly-investigate-doj-fbi-310121
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House Republicans quietly investigate perceived corruption at DOJ, FBI (Original Post)
demmiblue
Dec 2017
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creeksneakers2
(7,476 posts)1. There was no plot to hurt Trump or help Clinton
During the election, there was an active FBI investigation into Trump ties with Russia.
If the public had learned about that investigation during the election it would have damaged Trump.
The FBI officials the Republicans are pointing fingers at knew about the investigation.
All they had to do if they wanted to hurt Trump was to leak information about the investigation to the media.
They didn't. If they wanted to hurt Trump they would have.
So there was no plot to get Trump.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)2. Devin Nunes
is a traitor and a true piece of dung.
2naSalit
(86,802 posts)3. They're merely
creating propaganda material with the info they gather.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,234 posts)4. Devin No Nuts jr detective
Still has the decoder ring he found in the cereal box as a kid.
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)5. Rachel's on it now.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)6. These Republicans are probably totally corrupt - projecting it outward.
Initech
(100,104 posts)7. Yup, they always do what they accuse others of doing.
And then they go apeshit because, reasons.