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(CNN)House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes' dispute with Depuity Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray appeared to de-escalate Wednesday after Nunes was given access to the document that kicked off the FBI's investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia.
Nunes had been threatening to hold Rosenstein and Wray in contempt -- and to potentially impeach them -- if the Justice Department didn't cooperate with his committee amid stepped-up congressional Republican criticism of Rosenstein as President Donald Trump considers whether to fire him.
A Justice official told CNN that Nunes and Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina went to the Justice Department on Wednesday to view the document, known as an electronic communication, which details the origination of the counterintelligence investigation into Trump's team and Russia that began in July 2016. The official said the document was no longer redacted, except for "narrowly tailored" redactions to protect the name of a foreign country and foreign agent that, if revealed, could undermine "the trust we have with this foreign nation."
The Justice Department also made 1,000 pages of classified materials available to the full House Intelligence Committee, the official said, which the department believes "substantially satisfied" Nunes' August 2017 subpoena.
Nunes had been threatening to hold Rosenstein and Wray in contempt -- and to potentially impeach them -- if the Justice Department didn't cooperate with his committee amid stepped-up congressional Republican criticism of Rosenstein as President Donald Trump considers whether to fire him.
A Justice official told CNN that Nunes and Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina went to the Justice Department on Wednesday to view the document, known as an electronic communication, which details the origination of the counterintelligence investigation into Trump's team and Russia that began in July 2016. The official said the document was no longer redacted, except for "narrowly tailored" redactions to protect the name of a foreign country and foreign agent that, if revealed, could undermine "the trust we have with this foreign nation."
The Justice Department also made 1,000 pages of classified materials available to the full House Intelligence Committee, the official said, which the department believes "substantially satisfied" Nunes' August 2017 subpoena.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/11/politics/rod-rosenstein-house-republicans-nunes/index.html
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DOJ gives Nunes access to document that launched FBI's Russia probe (Original Post)
spanone
Apr 2018
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oasis
(49,401 posts)1. Stick it where the sun don't shine, traitorous Trumpbot.
spanone
(135,861 posts)2. Never seen anything like this fucking congress. Party over everything.
Traitors one and all.
oasis
(49,401 posts)3. The GOP's day of reckoning will come this November.
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)4. If I had it, I would offer $10 million to anyone
who can prove Nunes either got Russian $ or was in on the collusion in anyway.
Shifty little crook!
drray23
(7,637 posts)5. Hopefully they planted bogus Intel in there
To see if Nunes leaks it.