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| Showdown looms over Trump dossier; FBI misses third deadline to turn over subpoenaed documents |
| 2017-09-24 |
| [Washington Examiner] A third deadline has now passed for the FBI and Justice Department to give the House Intelligence Committee subpoenaed documents related to the Trump dossier. And for a third time, the bureau has not produced the material. The dossier is a collection of what former FBI Director James Comey called "salacious and unverified" allegations of collusion between Russia and Trump campaign figures in the 2016 campaign. The Russia allegations were compiled by a former British spy, Christopher Steele, who was commissioned by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which is thought to have been paid for the work by wealthy supporters of Hillary Clinton. The FBI reportedly considered taking over the dossier project in the fall of 2016, when the campaign was at its height, leading Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley to say the dossier matter raised "questions about the FBI's independence from politics." Both Grassley and the House Intelligence Committee have been interested in learning if the FBI ever used the "salacious and unverified" dossier as a basis for requesting surveillance on anyone in the Trump circle. Those questions only intensified this week with reports that the FBI wiretapped Trump associate and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort during the transition period. Four weeks ago, on Aug. 24, the House Intelligence Committee subpoenaed the FBI and Justice Department, seeking all internal FBI reports "incorporating, relying on, or referring to" information provided by Steele, his sources, or Fusion GPS. The committee also asked for documents on any FBI or Justice "efforts to corroborate, validate, or evaluate" Steele's information. And the subpoena sought any surveillance applications that included any information or were based on any information, provided by Steele. Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes originally set a Sept. 1 deadline for production of the dossier documents. The FBI did not comply. Nunes then extended the deadline to Sept. 14. The FBI did not comply. Then Nunes extended the deadline again, to Sept. 22. Now, again, the FBI has not complied. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 So if the FBI can't produce the documents, maybe congress can't produce a budget for the FBI and suspends their paychecks. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2017-09-24 11:06 |
| #2 Suspending the Civil Service Act would get a lot of attention. However, it would also undermine the Kabuki theater in the swamp. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-09-24 08:11 |
| #1 And where is the so-called Justice Department and Attorney General in all of this? Perhaps we really are a government of men vs a government of laws. “A government of laws, and not of men.” ~ John Adams, Novanglus Essays, No. 7. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-24 04:16 |