WAPO: In bid to reveal secret memo, GOP congressman plans to seek federal audit of Mueller probe

[emulatorloo]

In bid to reveal secret memo, GOP congressman plans to seek federal audit of Mueller probe
By Mike DeBonis May 10 at 4:30 PM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/05/10/in-bid-to-reveal-secret-memo-meadows-plans-to-seek-federal-audit-of-mueller-probe/?utm_term=.04497c61ede6


A prominent House Republican plans to ask a federal financial watchdog to audit the office of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, opening a new front of GOP attack on the secretive probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible ties to President Trump’s campaign.

The pending request — from Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), an outspoken Trump defender who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus as well as a House oversight subcommittee — appears to be mainly calibrated to force the disclosure of a three-page Justice Department memo spelling out the authorized scope of Mueller’s investigation.

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The 2017 “scope memo” has turned into a major flash point between the Justice Department and a cadre of House Republicans — including Meadows and other members of the Freedom Caucus — who say that Mueller has gone outside the bounds of his original charge to investigate possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.

“We believe that the American people need to know what the scope of the investigation [is],” Meadows said Thursday. “Now some would say, ‘Well, you’re getting involved in an ongoing criminal investigation.’ Well, it is an investigation, but the scope of that investigation is not part of the investigation. It just says, we’re going to look at all of this. We believe because we’re funding it that we should be able to look at that scope.”

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A more fruitful effort could come in court: Meadows’s remarks come a week after a federal judge in Virginia questioned whether fraud charges brought by the special counsel’s office against Manafort fell outside the authorized scope of the investigation.

While a Justice Department attorney, Michael Dreeben, told U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III that the parts of the memo relating to Manafort have been already been publicly revealed, Ellis asked Dreeben for an unredacted copy.


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Comment: I suspect Judge Ellis may have requested an unredacted copy of the scope memo for nefarious reasons. To aid Trump and Meadows/Jordan. The memo the judge has the scope of the Manafort investigation unredacted already, he does not actually need the rest of the memo to make a ruling. Maybe I am paranoid.

[Iliyah]

1. These GOP congresscritters are desperate.

Panicking, paranoid, scared . . . .

Meanwhile, like during the Bush years, again, they are going to expose secret agents and probably some will die.

Vote these assholes out!

[emulatorloo]

4. They ARE getting involved in an ongoing investigation, despite Meadow's statements to the contrary

Apparently they want Mueller to stop before he gets to Trump’s money laundering. Unfortunately for them I think Mueller’s team is many many steps ahead of them.

[riversedge]

2. I have not seen the memo before. Link is in the ariticle OP. Seems the

Repugs want to see the redacted material as far as I can tell.

[emulatorloo]

5. They want to fuck up the investigation and tip off Trumpco.

They want to see the redacted parts to leak them to Trump.

I am glad Rosenstein said the Justice Department won’t be extorted. I hope he can hold strong.

[D_Master81]

3. They are blatant in their obstruction attempts anymore

[Sophia4]

6. So the party that runs on "law and order" doesn't want criminal activity by a

member of their party investigated?

That doesn't quite make sense, does it?

Where do Republicans really stand when it comes to law and order?

Should laws only be enforced against people who are not Republicans?

[Delphinus]

7. I am

feeling quite ill.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Traitors all of them

[Corgigal]

9. We, the American people

need to understand who you really work for. Nunes and Meadows should be under investigation, they aren't just in it for Trump. I wonder if the FBI doesn't want to go there because they have to take out the head, but this tail of the Federal govt is noisy and people could get killed.

[tikka]

10. Now that they are investigating the republican House Intelligence Committee staffers

I hope that they include McConnell and Ryan. Their betrayal of the American people has been criminal.