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| POTUS Tees Off On FBI And DOJ For Missing Clinton, Russia Document Deadline |
| 2018-04-08 |
| [Daily Caller] President Donald Trump berated the FBI and Justice Department on Saturday, accusing the agencies of "stalling" and "slow walking" the handover of documents to Congress. "What does the Department of Justice and FBI have to hide?" Trump asked in a mid-afternoon tweet. "Why aren’t they giving the strongly requested documents (unredacted) to the HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE? Stalling, but for what reason? Not looking good!" he wrote. He added in another tweet that House Judiciary Committee members were "angrily accusing" the Justice Department of missing a deadline set for Thursday to hand over 1.2 million documents related to several different matters. The committee requested documents about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email investigation, about the FBI and DOJ’s applications for surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, as well as a report from the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility recommending the firing of Andrew McCabe as the FBI’s deputy director. "Slow walking ‐ what is going on? BAD!" said Trump, who has blasted the agencies on Twitter in the past. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 McConnells kids are a part of the Chinese Silk Highway. Bought and paid for in full with a lot Of ren-min-bis. |
| Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 2018-04-08 19:25 |
| #6 @#4 The problem is that there is a Republican anti-Trump element in Congress and the bureaucracy, which makes hard for Trump and his allies to know who to trust and they have to find trustworthy & competent people to drain the swamp. I doubt McConnell and Ryan can be considered allies. |
| Posted by: Chantry 2018-04-08 18:58 |
| #5 If Trump fired Comey he can certainly fire Wray or Rosenstein or anybody else and if they refuse to comply with a request from Congress it's about damn time to do so. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-04-08 15:54 |
| #4 I'm not fully conversant with the hiring/firing power the Executive has, when combined with Congressional power to confirm or reject appointees, in this situation. But given that Trump is the Executive and the GOP controls both houses, there is a whiff of kabuki in all this. I know a little about blue slips and the like, but it seems to me that this is a failure of will on the part of the GOP (including Trump). Either that, or they're actually fine with all this and just want to rile up the rubes. |
| Posted by: charger 2018-04-08 12:54 |
| #3 The Justice Dept. obstructs justice. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-04-08 10:36 |
| #2 Dirty cops. |
| Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-04-08 03:02 |
| #1 "What does the Department of Justice and FBI have to hide?" Trump asked in a mid-afternoon tweet. I suspect he already knows. |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2018-04-08 00:55 |