House Republicans prepare contempt actions v FBI, DOJ

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The U.S. House of Representatives said Saturday that they will draft a contempt of Congress resolution against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray. The claim is that they stonewalled in producing material in the Russia-Trump probes and other matters.

It is believed that Rosenstein has an old photo of Hillary Clinton on the ceiling above his bed, according to my investigative reporter Vinny Boombots, and corroborated by ABC's Brian Ross.

"Unless all our outstanding demands are fully met by close of business on Monday, December 4, 2017, the committee will have the opportunity to move this resolution before the end of the month," said Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, in a statement.

This action has been under consideration by Nunes along with other Intelligence Committee Republicans for several weeks, but Democrats want to see Rosenstein and Wray get away with the stonewalling, much like Jose Garcia Zarate got away with the murder of Kate Steinle. 

Dems say "You wouldn't understand . . . it's a liberal thing."

The action is moving forward after press reports Saturday revealed why a top FBI official was removed from the Special Counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller. 

Specifically, it was Peter Strzok who was the FBI agent taken off the investigation after it was discovered he exchanged anti-Trump, pro-Hillary Clinton text messages with his mistress, Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer working for Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.

Thus far, Nunes said the FBI and DOJ have failed to sufficiently comply with the August 24th committee subpoena by specifically refusing repeated demands "for an explanation of Peter Strzok's dismissal from the Mueller probe."

Strzok was also involved in the Clinton illegal private server investigation, so the relationship of both cases is very sketchy and smells like an old Democratic congressman in heat.

"In light of today's press reports, we now know why Strzok was dismissed, why the FBI and DOJ refused to provide us this explanation, and at least one reason why they previously refused to make Deputy Director McCabe available to the Committee for an interview," Nunes said.

Nunes continued: "By hiding from Congress, and from the American people, documented political bias by a key FBI head investigator for both the Russia collusion probe and the Clinton email investigation, the FBI and DOJ engaged in a willful attempt to thwart Congress' constitutional oversight responsibility."

Nunes said that this has been part of "a months-long pattern by the DOJ and FBI of stonewalling and obstructing this Committee's oversight work," and also withholding subpoenaed information about their use of an opposition research dossier targeting President Trump in the 2016 election. 

The dossier was paid for by both the DNC and Clinton through a law firm. Nunes and Speaker Ryan want to investigate to see whether the DOJ and FBI improperly relied on the dossier to begin their federal surveillance on Trump and his associates without independently confirming the information they received in the dossier to justify such spying.

"The DOJ has now expressed--on Saturday, just hours after the press reports on Strzok's dismissal appeared--sudden willingness to comply with some of the Committee's long-standing demands," Nunes said. "This attempted 11th-hour accommodation is neither credible nor believable, and in fact is yet another example of the DOJ's disingenuousness and obstruction." He then added that those agencies "should be investigating themselves."


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