House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes
The House and Justice
Department reached a deal late Wednesday to provide records relevant to
investigations of possible Trump 2016 campaign ties to Russia that could shed a
light on whether the infamous Trump-Russia “dossier” was used to justify
surveillance on Trump campaign officials and kick-start the FBI investigation.
The deal comes after FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein met with House Speaker Paul Ryan to talk about
the demands by the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee to turn over
documents related to the probe into the allegations of Russian meddling in the
2016 election campaign to prop-up the Republican candidate against Hillary
Clinton, Reuters reported.
"After speaking to Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein this
evening, I believe the House Intelligence Committee has reached an agreement
with the Department of Justice that will provide the committee with access to
all the documents and witnesses we have requested," House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said in the statement. "The committee looks forward to
receiving access to the documents over the coming days.”
Last month, Nunes
reportedly threatened to vote to hold the DOJ and FBI in contempt of Congress
if they did not turn over the sought materials.
The House intelligence committee reportedly issued
subpoenas to Wray and Rosenstein in August – with a deadline to comply in
September – requesting records related to the bureau’s relationship with former
British spy Christopher Steele who produced the salacious yet unverified
“dossier”.
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WOW, @foxandfrlends “Dossier is bogus.
Clinton Campaign, DNC funded Dossier. FBI CANNOT (after all of this time)
VERIFY CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF RUSSIA/TRUMP COLLUSION. FBI TAINTED.” And they used
this Crooked Hillary pile of garbage as the basis for going after the Trump
Campaign!
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The dossier has come under increased scrutiny after it was
revealed that it received funding from the Clinton campaign and the Democratic
National Committee, prompting Trump to
accuse the FBI of using “this Crooked Hillary pile of garbage” dossier to go
after his campaign.
The panel, led by
Nunes, also sought to know to what extent the dossier was used to justify FISA
warrants to surveil Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and to launch the FBI’s
probe into Russian alleged interference in the 2016 election campaign.
Both agencies refused
to comply with the issued subpoenas until now, according to Reuters, because
the FBI was in the process of conducting their investigation, as supervised by
Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
