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(CNN)House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes lashed out at Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week in a letter where he threatened Sessions with a public grilling if he doesn't produce documents about the Russia dossier to the House intelligence committee.
Nunes, who despite stepping aside from directing the House Russia investigation has been leading his own separate investigation, accused Sessions and the FBI of stonewalling him repeatedly in a September 1 letter obtained by CNN. In the letter, he threatened to drag Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray before the committee for a public grilling and hold them in contempt of Congress -- a jailable offense -- if they don't hand over the documents.
The House intelligence committee issued a pair of subpoenas last month seeking documentation of whether the FBI or Justice Department used material from the dossier compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele as part of the federal investigation into possible collusion between the campaign of President Donald Trump and the Kremlin. Nunes also writes that he subpoenaed to discover whether information from the Russia dossier was used in the crafting of applications to conduct surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
In the letter, which was signed only by Nunes and no other members of the House intelligence committee, Nunes explained that he was extending the deadline for responding to the subpoenas to September 14. But he capped it off with a sharp threat.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/05/politics/house-intelligence-committee-subpoena-fbi-justice/index.html
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Justice
(7,188 posts)working to try to discredit FBI and Justice. Really odd behavior.
mrJJ
(886 posts)spanone
(135,900 posts)this is how republicans cheat.
they also grilled Susan Rice for four hours today about unmasking. nothing to do with russia at all. stalling tactics.
Turbineguy
(37,375 posts)who will look more stylish in stripes.
I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out he took money from the Russians.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Hunch says,Nunes will trip himself up and we will see he might be as dirty as they come.