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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSchiff Wants To Know if FBI Has Continued Counterintelligence Inquiry Into Trumpworld Over Russia
Obviously we have the deepest interests in the counterintelligence aspects of the investigation, the House intelligence committee chairman said.
Sam Brodey, Spencer Ackerman
03.27.19 3:41 PM ET
Special Counsel Robert Muellers criminal probe into potential conspiracy between Trumpworld and Russia is over. The head of the House intelligence committee wants to know if that means the FBIs counterintelligence probe into the same question has also concluded.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told The Daily Beast on Wednesday that hes begun negotiations with the intelligence agencies to get an answer to one of the many unknowns about the Mueller probe currently hidden behind the veil of Attorney General William Barrs letter on Sunday purporting to summarize it.
At this point, we dont know whether any of the counterintelligence findings are part of the Mueller report, Schiff said. We have initiated discussions with the intelligence community to make sure that we obtain whatever is found in the counterintelligence investigation, or whether that [inquiry] is still ongoing.
In January, the New York Times, citing in part the FBIs former top lawyer, James Baker, reported that the bureau opened a counterintelligence inquiry into Trumps ties to Russia in May 2017 after the president fired Director James Comey, who was then in charge of the overall Russia probe. Mueller, soon empaneled as special counsel, inherited that investigation.
Current and former FBI and Justice Department officials have characterized a counterintelligence probe into a sitting president with its implication that the president, wittingly or not, posed a threat to national security as unprecedented. For the same reason, the Times reported that the decision to open the probe was internally controversial.
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Schiff Wants To Know if FBI Has Continued Counterintelligence Inquiry Into Trumpworld Over Russia (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2019
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Chin music
(23,002 posts)1. My choice..
Schiff/Swalwell
padah513
(2,506 posts)2. Pedal to the metal
Republican want us to get discouraged. DON'T
triron
(22,023 posts)3. Keep hammering Schiff!
elias7
(4,027 posts)4. Why is Schiff and other congressional leaders, not privy to this info IMMEDIATELY??
MondoMan
(17 posts)5. Thanks for asking, Mr. Congressman
Thank you for asking the questions.