Kushner attorney says Senate panel relaxed Monday document deadline

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




By KYLE CHENEY 11/27/2017 12:17 PM EST

Jared Kushner's attorney said the Senate Judiciary Committee scrapped a Monday deadline for President Donald Trump's son-in-law to turn over documents the panel wants for its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said in a letter before Thanksgiving that Kushner, a top aide to Trump, failed to provide a series of documents the committee requested — including one that they said referenced a "back door overture" by the Russians and another that hinted at pre-election contact with WikiLeaks. They raised the specter of issuing a subpoena if Kushner failed to produce them this week. But Kushner's lawyer Abbe Lowell said the committee changed its tune after they spoke over the week of Thanksgiving.

"Mr. Kushner's counsel and staff from both the Majority and Minority spoke last week to go over the Committee's requests and a schedule for producing additional information," Lowell said in a statement. "There is no current deadline as both the Committee and Mr. Kushner's counsel are working in good faith to produce whatever else may be responsive and relevant to the Committee's inquiry."

It appears unlikely the committee will enforce the Nov. 27 deadline initially set out in the letter. A Feinstein aide said the discussions between the committee and Lowell are ongoing. Grassley aides were not immediately available for comment.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/27/jared-kushner-senate-document-deadline-260798

[Sneederbunk]

1. Rely on Mueller, not congressional committees.

[old guy]

2. That has been my position from the beginning.

The congressional hearings have been completely political and a total waste of taxpayers dollars. They just give the media some shiny things to write about.

[Rainbow Droid]

3. A Republican controlled congress cannot investigate Republican crimes. Not in the America of 2017.

It would be like the police investigating themselves regarding systemic police brutality, Wall Street investigating themselves for endemic insider trading, or the President of the United States investigating himself for blatant personal conflicts of interest.

These are all patently ridiculous and would fool nobody.

[Abouttime]

4. These hearings are a joke

Mueller's investigation will produce the indictments that will lead to a call for tribunals.
Only with tRump removed from office and him and his family tried for treason will we achieve justice.
This whole family deserves to hang for treason, we must set an example for future dictators. We must make them fear the power of the people, the real backbone of our democracy.