Trump-Russia: Republican probe of alleged FBI bias

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Trump-Russia: Republican probe of alleged FBI bias ends 'with a whimper'

Trumpanzee 'law';

When you have the facts, pound on the facts. When you have the law, pound on the law. When you have neither, pound on the table.

Don't have a table? Change subjects and post fact-challenged word salad nonsense, hysteria, hyperbole and fear driven conspiracy theories. Wash, rinse, repeat.

See you in '19 or after the next Mueller investigation indictment, whichever comes first.

Source: The Guardian

Staff and agencies

Sat 29 Dec 2018 04.10 GMT

Republicans have quietly and unceremoniously ended their congressional investigation of whether the FBI and Justice Department were biased in their handling of inquiries into Hillary Clinton’s emails and Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.

House judiciary chairman Robert Goodlatte and oversight chairman Trey Gowdy, who are retiring next week, sent a letter rather than a full report to the Justice Department and the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell.

It wraps up an inquiry that was conducted mostly behind closed doors but also in public as Republican lawmakers often criticised interview subjects later and suggested they were conspiring against Trump.
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Goodlatte and Gowdy say in their letter that they reviewed thousands of documents and conducted interviews that “revealed troubling facts which exacerbated our initial questions and concerns”. They call on the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate further.

A separate report issued this year by the Justice Department’s own internal watchdog found there was no evidence that the then FBI chief James Comey or the department were motivated by political bias toward either candidate.

Jerry Nadler, the top Democrat on the judiciary committee, and Elijah Cummings, top Democrat on the oversight panel, are expected to formally end the investigation when they take power in January.

Nadler has called it “nonsense”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/...-a-whimper

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