Nunes blasts DOJ, FBI for 'failure' to produce records relating to anti-Trump dossier
Exclusive - House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes is blasting the Department of Justice and the FBI for its “failure to fully produce” documents related to an anti-Trump dossier, saying “at this point it seems the DOJ and FBI need to be investigating themselves.”
In a Thursday letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein obtained by Fox News, Nunes expressed frustration that information and witnesses subpoenaed by the committee in August related to the so-called Steele dossier had not yet been turned over. The salacious dossier includes unverified allegations about President Trump's connections with Russia that he has denied.
“Unfortunately, DOJ/FBI's intransigence with respect to the August 24 subpoenas is part of a broader pattern of behavior that can no longer be tolerated,” the California Republican wrote to Rosenstein.
Nunes demanded that all records – and available dates for witnesses to testify – be provided to the committee by Jan 3.
“As a result of the numerous delays and discrepancies that have hampered the process of subpoena compliance, the committee no longer credits the representations made by DOJ and/or the FBI regarding these matters,” Nunes said.
He called the DOJ’s initial response to the subpoenas “disingenuous at best.”
Nunes said the DOJ informed the House Intelligence Committee several weeks ago that the “basic investigatory documents demanded by the subpoenas…did not exist.”
“As it turns out, not only did documents exist that were directly responsive to the committee’s subpoenas, but they involved senior DOJ and FBI officials who were swiftly reassigned when their roles in matters under the committee’s investigation were brought to light,” Nunes wrote.
Fox News reported this month that Bruce Ohr, a senior Justice Department official, was demoted amid questions about his contacts with the opposition research firm responsible for the anti-Trump dossier.
A Mueller aide, Peter Strzok, a former FBI official, was also removed from the special counsel investigation after a number of anti-Trump texts were discovered on his phone.
Among the information being sought by the committee are reports that summarize meetings between FBI confidential human sources and FBI officials about the Steele dossier.
It also wants to interview DOJ and FBI officials, Ohr, Strzok, FBI Attorney James Baker, FBI Attorney Lisa Page, FBI Attorney Sally Moyer and FBI Assistant Director for Congressional Affairs Greg Brower.
Nunes previously said he has instructed committee staff to begin drawing up a contempt of Congress resolution for Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray unless their demands are met.
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Sessions must be missing in action. The 'Deep State' must really have something on him. I think there should be some punishment for government employees who claim the 5th amendment and then retire and collect their retirement when it was obvious people like Lois Lerner was guilty as hell.
We have gone down the damn gop's rabbit hole when Kevin Nunes is Chairman of the House Intelligence Committed. Nunes is just another far right wing water carrier for the small r republicans who says outrageous false and untrue things to mislead People...
After an action-packed week for Rep. Devin Nunes, the Republican chairman of the House committee investigating the links of Trump aides to Russian actors during the campaign and transition, Democrats have begun to call for his removal from the investigation. The problem is, Democrats are two months late: Nunes should never have led the investigation in the first place. By standard ethical guidelines, Nunes should have recused himself before the investigation got off the ground...
Third, Nunes was quoted in The Washington Post saying that at some point during the transition, he was fielding calls from foreign leaders and ambassadors trying to reach NSA designee Flynn. As a result, it is very possible that Nunes’s conversations were also “incidentally” recorded by U.S. intelligence agencies as part of other investigations.
So is it any wonder why Nunes is abusing his power as the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee to harass the very Agencies that are zeroing in on his Great Leader, him, his fellow house members and the RNC?
We know how that will turn out.
Yep, especially with a Republican in charge.
With a Republican in charge we will see something substantial than we've seen with a Democrat running it.
You mean like all that extra information we saw in the Benghazi investigations?
Other than McCabe's less than 3 month tenure, the FBI has been run by republicans since 2001.
One of the investigations brought out Hillary's private server that had classified information on it. Because of that, and many other things, including and especially Hillary, is why she lost the election.
No I mean the partisan political bias exhibited by the Meuller investigation team and the conflicts of interest they are NOT supposed to have.
You're ignoring my request in another article, so since you are making the same claim in this one, I will make the same request here.
PLEASE PROVIDE ANY EVIDENCE THAT THERE IS ANY BIAS IN MUELLER'S INVESTIGATION.
Or are you going to resort to personal insults in this comment string as well?
You must be pretty stupid not to think that Stzok doesn't have any political bias or that Meuller's involvement in the Uranium One situation doesn't reflect bias.
They didn't have to even worry about covering their tracks back in the day of 'hope and change' with Hillary having a 95% chance of taking the axe from Obama and finishing the job, but those days are over now.
Uranium One? Oh please tell us what you know. Or don't.
Well that answers my question, you are a troll with nothing other than hot air, personal insults, and a Russian paycheck.
Nunes. Uh, if you really want to 'get into' The Dossier, I suggest you check with MI6. That is where it originated. Steel is a name and nothing else.