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Democrats in Congress will subpoena the full report of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III if the Justice Department only discloses certain parts of it, Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Thursday.
The Connecticut Democrat is a key member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is the committees chairman, and has subpoena power over the Justice Department.
CNN reported Wednesday that Mueller could issue a report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections as early as next week, though the special counsels notoriously tight-lipped office has provided no timeline for its plans.
Newly confirmed Attorney General William Barr was noncommittal in his confirmation hearing about whether he would allow Mueller to testify before Congress, and whether he would resist a subpoena for the special counsels report.
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RKP5637
(67,107 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and let him testify, on the public record, to details of the report.
I'd kinda hope that could happen. Esp. in not just one but two Dem. controlled Committees.
RKP5637
(67,107 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)His track record of catching serious bad guys that required deep digging is superb. Plus he has all the resources of personnel, time, money he needs.
Plus behind the scenes you KNOW a lot of big name good guys are helping out with info, etc.
No way would he work this hard, this long, without sealing up as many potential loopholes as possible.
also helps that the culprits are morons. Nixon was not a moron, and he managed to underestimate his survival score.
RKP5637
(67,107 posts)wishstar
(5,269 posts)He talked again about the astoundingly unprecedented volume of contacts between Trump campaign staff and people closely associated with Russian intelligence and the consistent lying and coverup of those meetings and contacts.
SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)Hekate
(90,662 posts)spanone
(135,829 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)will be made, I imagine.
The other night Rachel reported that, though Obama emphasized that any law enforcement would be strictly by the book, from the first moments of realization that Trump would become president the Obama administration started copying and safeguarding intelligence about the Russia connections and activities to various sites so it couldn't just disappear.