Justice Department, FBI resist lawmaker demands for 'Trump dossier' files: officials

[Weekend Warrior]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department and the FBI are resisting demands from a Republican lawmaker to hand over documents about a former British spy’s dossier on purported Russian support for Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, because the FBI has its own open criminal investigation, officials said.

The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee issued subpoenas in August seeking “any and all documents” about both agencies’ dealings with former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, according to a letter seen by Reuters from committee chairman Devin Nunes, a Trump supporter.

Steele compiled the so-called Trump dossier, which Trump was told by FBI director James Comey contained salacious material about the businessman-turned president. Trump and his associates have said the dossier’s contents were false.

Law enforcement and congressional officials said that the Justice Department and the FBI were reluctant to comply with the demand for documents as the FBI had its own probe, under the supervision of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, into U.S. allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign to tilt the November election in Trump’s favor.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-dossier/justice-department-fbi-resist-lawmaker-demands-for-trump-dossier-files-officials-idUSKCN1C405Z

[Historic NY]

1. Nune's is Trumps boy, and leaker of documents.

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. Nunes is running a sham investigation.

They won't give him any documents to destroy.