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Originally Posted by LostOstrich
I'm a little confused. Hasn't the congress investigation been closed down? What's the explanation for demanding this information now? I mean the actual reason is no doubt because it would be helpful to Trump, but what's the legal justification? Don't they need to at least pretend to be following some sort of procedure?
The House investigation committee into Russia had been, but standing Congressional committees can "investigate" just anything they want. The reasons they give don't make a lot of sense outside of the right wing derposphere because they're whipped up a whole worldview were Comey, Rosenstein, etc are lawless vigilantes blatantly using their DOJ powers to harass and intimidate Republicans.
Here's one reason, but it doesn't make sense because Comey only testified and has talked about the unclassified memos, but Republicans want them all. Also Comey talking about them doesn't mean everyone gets to see them and there's obvious reasons why Congress shouldn't be meddling in DOJ investigations, but of course, to Republicans, these aren't real DOJ investigations.
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Republicans have complained that access to the memos for lawmakers has been limited even though Comey testified about the memos to Congress last year and has discussed some of their contents during an ongoing national publicity tour for his new book.
"There's an urgency there since Jim Comey's out there talking about the memos," said Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), a member of the Judiciary Committee.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pol...s-house-536587
Last edited by Huehuecoyotl; 04-19-2018 at 04:46 PM.