Posted on 05/10/2018 9:14:51 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Department of Justice officials have invited House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, as well as fellow top Republican on the committee Rep. Trey Gowdy, to a briefing Thursday on the classified information Nunes demanded in a subpoena last week, CBS News correspondent Paula Reid reports.
The exact nature of the information Nunes requested is unclear. Tension between the DOJ and some Republicans in Congress have persisted for months, as Republican chairmen have demanded extensive department records, many of them related to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling and any ties to the Trump campaign. President Trump has expressed intense frustration over what he has perceived as DOJ's failure to answer to Congress. Last week, the president railed against a "rigged system" with "unequal 'justice.'"
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“This could be a DOJ ploy to stall, and possibly to misinform Nunes also.”
True, but at least we’ll find out one way or another.
I always said that if the DOJ was genuinely concerned about leaks from the likes of Adam Schiff, then why don’t they just offer to brief the good guys - Nunes and Gowdy, and exclude Schiff?
Sure, Schiff and other impeach Trump types on the committee will cry bloody murder, but who cares? At least then we’ll know the DOJ was cooperating as best they could, and had been withholding for the right reasons (fear of leaks).
And now it appears that’s just what’s happening.
To me this is a good development - if Nunes and Gowdy find this compromise acceptable, that would indicate that the DOJ foot-dragging and redacting was in fact being done for the right reasons, and the fear of leaks was not just an excuse to cover up for the deep state.
On the other hand, if Nunes and Gowdy just get more redactions and foot dragging, then we’ll know once and for all there is a cover up.
I know there are people here who think Gowdy is deep state - I don’t think so - he is a showboating blow hard, but he’s not a traitor for the deep state.
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