[ April 18, 2024 ]
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee say they are considering the issuance of subpoenas to FBI and Justice Department officials to try to get to the bottom of anti-President Donald Trump texts on their phones.
Here’re are some highlights from the fiery hearing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgr6P6mN-rs
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The American people certainly want to know what’s going on.
Those investigating supposed Russia-Trump election collusion shouldn’t have text messages on their phones that talk abouut “f–ing idiot” Trump, or “douche” Trump.
It might be seen as — well, biased.
Anyhow, Breitbart has more:
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee said on Wednesday it was time to issue subpoenas to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department, following the release of texts from FBI officials that suggested they wanted to stop Trump’s election.
“It’s time for subpoenas from our committee, not just from the intelligence committee, but from our committee. Subpoenas for documents that we rightfully should have an ability to see,” said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), a senior member of the committee.
He also said he wanted to subpoena Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, FBI senior official Peter Strzok, and senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie Ohr.
“We think all those individuals should be brought in for depositions and be under oath in front the committee at some point in the very near future,” Jordan said during a joint phone press conference with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).
It was revealed just last week that Special Counsel Robert Mueller removed Strzok from his team in July after Justice Department inspector general investigators discovered he had sent anti-Trump text messages to another FBI official, Lisa Page, with whom he was also having an extramarital affair.
One of those texts, revealed to media outlets on Tuesday, suggested there was a plan discussed to thwart Trump’s election.
“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Strzok wrote to Page on August 15, 2016, about the time the FBI launched the Russia investigation. “Andy” is believed to be McCabe.
“It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40,” Strzok added.
Strzok also ran the FBI’s Clinton email investigation, launched the FBI’s initial Russia investigation, interviewed Clinton aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, interviewed Clinton, changed language in an FBI statement that exonerated Clinton, interviewed former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and was the deputy head of counterintelligence at the FBI.
“That same guy is now saying, ‘We need to take some action because we can’t risk Donald Trump as the next president. So this, to me, shows intent to take action to do more than just correspond back and forth with some colleague about how you don’t like Donald Trump,” Jordan said.
Ohr, as was also revealed recently, met with author of the Trump dossier, ex-British spy Christopher Steele, during the election, and with the co-founder of Fusion GPS, the firm that the Clinton campaign paid to create the dossier, shortly after the election.
Last week, Ohr was demoted from one of his positions at the DOJ as associate deputy general, after word of the meetings with Fusion GPS leaked to the media. It was also revealed shortly after that Ohr’s wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion GPS during the election.
“These are top people,” Jordan said. “And this [text] from Strzok is in reference to a meeting he’s having in Andy McCabe’s office and Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, and Peter Strzok are there. Who knows who else is in that room? Is Comey in that room? Who else is in the room when they’re having this discussion?”
Subpoenas by the Judiciary Committee — on top of those issued by the House intelligence committee, which is conducting its own Russia probe, would add more pressure to the FBI and the DOJ to provide requested information to Congress.
The House intelligence committee, led by Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA), issued subpoenas to the FBI and DOJ in August, but has been stonewalled on a large part of those requests. It was not until House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) last month called on them to comply that some information was shaken loose.
Jordan said he and other members discussed issuing subpoenas with the committee chairman earlier that day.
He said he had two fundamental questions he wanted answered: Did the FBI pay Steele; and did it use what he wrote to get surveillance warrants on Trump campaign members?
“If the answer to those questions is ‘no,’ just tell us,” Jordan said. “But if the answer is yes, then it confirms everything we suspect, and each day we get new evidence that reinforces the idea that the answer to those two questions is yes.”
Jordan pointed out that the same time Strzok texted Page about the “insurance policy” to stop Trump was the same time the Russia investigation was launched.
“Think about when he said that — he said that in August,” Jordan said. “The same time they launched the Russia investigation, and my guess is about the same time they’re taking stuff to the FISA court. So think about that.”
Jordan said he believes Strzok is the “guy who bootstrapped up the dossier” and “dressed it all up and made it look like it was real intel” and took it to a secret FISA court to get surveillance warrants on the Trump campaign.
“If the American people find out that their taxpayer money was used to go and create a dossier to discredit the president, there are going to be very serious consequences for the FBI and the Department of Justice,” said Gaetz.
“It’s real easy to clear that all up, tell us ‘no,’” Jordan said. “But If the answer is yes, then you have the FBI working to help one campaign and against the other campaign, and that just never is supposed to happen in this country.”
“But everything is pointing in that direction,” he said.
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22 Comments
6 years ago
Hillary mafia killed another witness to email investigation
http://tinyurl.com/y8p9cv5l No investigation. They just commit suicide in odd ways !
Unless you purge Hillary/Obama holdovers in FBI/NSA/DOJ/State dept this mafia will continue to subvert Trump admin and prevent prosecution of Hillary.
6 years ago
“mull”? oh my, let’s not get too aggressive you repubs. you might offend the swamp.
6 years ago
More talk leading to nothing, criminals in the white house are above the law, they know it, we know it, it is a waste of time to pretend that anyone will be called to account for crime.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
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6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
I disagree, Mahou. Don’t give up yet….this President is different. He’s not one of them and they have been exposed. Now it’s up to us to start getting rid of them with our votes….have faith.
And the preponderance of criminals are not in the White House….they are in our DOJ, intelligence agencies, FBI, and top military leaders…..the Muslim Marxist Obummer had 8 years to stuff as many of them in as he could…..he forced retirement on the top loyal military leaders about 3 years ago…..
If we could just get rid of Sissie Sessions and put a fighter in there….things would turn around real fast. He may have been great in Alabama….but he’s out of his element in D.C…..and sadly it shows.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
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6 years ago
What a load. Nothing is going to happen. No one has been fired and Strzock is STILL there.
Sorry, the communist democrats are winning and Americans are wetting their pants while trying not to notice by drinking beer and watching football (bread and circuses).
Cowardice and apathy has sold America to the communist democrats.
6 years ago
Reply to
Craig
Craig, I have to agree with you. It’s truly amazing to watch – and I watched a lot of this hearing. The Republicans are in office, decent men like Jim Jordan, Trey Gowdy and others rant and rave, and yet the Democrats, loaded with crooks and liars, are running the show. Let’s see whether another special counsel is appointed to investigate Robert Mueller’s totally compromised investigations by a group of first rate twisters and liars! – or whether any form of investigating group is formed.
Peter Strzok is a weedy creep – just look at his face – and Bruce Ohr in the DOJ little different, yet when caught in their criminal activities they don’t get fired, they get demoted – but they are still there to influence matters and we can bet that in a few years their sins will be forgiven by the higher up liars and criminals, who did not fire them when they should have, and they’ll be back to their old games. America is now just banana republic, there is no integrity.
6 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
It is near impossible to fire a “government employee”…they have to commit crimes that are prosecutable in order to get rid of them. Decades ago the Dims set that up where gov employees couldn’t be fired. That needs to be changed.
6 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
This is a truly disgraceful circumstance. Apparent now, you need vigilante death squads to get justice done. Hillary should be first on the list for all the assassinations she seems to have arranged – but in her case I’d like her to see it coming before she descends to hell.
6 years ago
There are probably progressives shopping for bodyguards as this moment. Thereare probably more than a few who want to bury this now and it may involve their burying some of their co-conspirators.
6 years ago
It is obvious this FBI agent Peter Strzok has problems of masculine inadequacy and carries his penis in his holster. But this goes beyond mere political bias and smacks at rants on assassination. When you hear terms like “no way he gets elected” or “a chance we can’t take”, those have a degree of finality to them. Be real, when he uses the phrase “insurance policy” are you thinking Geico?
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6 years ago
If Repubs had done what Dems have done, no amount of earplugs would dampen the screams for retribution….
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6 years ago
Cows in a field “mull” things when they chew the cud.
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6 years ago
I hope the Republican establishment is paying attention. They better get behind Trump’s effort to clean the sewer or their days are numbered. The dims will win because too many of us will stay home next election. It seems they don’t know that Republicans/Conservatives pay attention? Just my opinion…..
6 years ago
Based on the breathtaking forces that have come up against PresidentTrump -considered an outsider of the Swamp – it has become very clear to me how we’ve ended up with so many bad presidents who were sanctioned by the Globalist Swamp…..The Clinton-Bush Cartels, the Dimm Libtard Presidents…..all kept making the Swamp deeper and more crowded.
Only a very strong, intelligent person could have been still standing by now…..only a fighter and lover of America and her people could still be there by now….still fighting. God Bless President Trump and America.
6 years ago
There is no room for mulling – the only horse trading that should be done is a guarantee that they do not get the death penalty for their purported attempt at a coup, sedition and treason if they expose their puppet masters.
Other than that, put them in public stocks so if “We the People” have a bad day, we can go dance on their carcass – ask Ambassador Stevens what the punishment should be – oh , that’s right, he was murdered by Killiary and Oshamo in Benghazi
6 years ago
These House Judiciary Lawmakers shouldn’t be “mulling” subpoenas on FBI, DOJ After Text Messages Reveal ‘Path’ to Stop Trump.
WHAT’S THERE TO MULL?
