UPDATED: Burr threatens subpoenas if Trump aides ignore his deadlines

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico

By AUSTIN WRIGHT 05/09/17 06:12 PM EDT

Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr on Tuesday threatened to subpoena Trump campaign aides if they ignore deadlines to turn over records to his panel, explaining that he had received just two responses to an initial request for information.

“I think all options are on the table, and I think you can envision what those options are,” the North Carolina Republican told reporters. “The most severe would be subpoena.”

The Intelligence panel’s top Democrat, Mark Warner of Virginia, said it appeared that just one person was complying with Tuesday’s initial deadline to provide the committee with records of any meetings they had with Russian officials ahead of the presidential election. Neither Warner nor Burr would name the individual who is complying.

The other individual who has responded to the committee, former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, suggested in a letter last week he would not provide the requested records — leading to an angry joint statement from Warner and Burr.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/09/richard-burr-subpoenas-trump-238173

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UPDATE:

Republican Intel chair Burr ‘troubled by the timing and reasoning’ of Comey’s firing

NOOR AL-SIBAI
09 MAY 2017 AT 20:04 ET

In a statement, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) who is chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he is “troubled by the timing and reasoning of Director Comey’s termination”.

Burr added that Comey’s firing by President Donald Trump “further confuses an already difficult investigation by the Committee,” referring to the Senate intel committee’s probe into alleged collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russian operatives to alter the outcome of the 2016 elections.

Read Burr’s entire statement below.

Link to tweet

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/republican-intel-chair-burr-troubled-by-the-timing-and-reasoning-of-comeys-firing/

[rurallib]

1. Burr? Wow - I always thought he was little but a puddle of pander

Repugs must be feeling the heat if they help with the cover up.

[bathroommonkey76]

5. Burr doesn't isn't running in 2022.

He has no reason to pander to the GOP anymore.

[rurallib]

7. Ah - they get a conscience when they retire

trying to square things with their god or something.

[moonscape]

13. But I thought he had been the one keeping the brakes on the

investigation, regardless of the joint news conference, using plenty of foot-dragging tactics.

Hard to know where the line is with these guys, individually and collectively.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. tRump just hardened Burr & Warner's resolve. Page, Stone, & Manafort just said "Yeah, thanks Don".nt

[Blue_Roses]

8. lol...

Sounds like it...

[Freethinker65]

3. Boo. NBD. They ignore and/or Trump begins pardoning

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Trump can only pardon Federal crimes & though it has been tried (Ford-Nixon), not future convictions

I am not a lawyer, but that is my reading of the law (Constitution). Mind you it would require a very sharp legal time to successfully argue that pardoning people to make them get off free from future conviction is unconstitutional.

[kairos12]

4. They will string it out and then claim Executive Privilege.

[still_one]

6. They should be troubled, because if this comes down, they won't be able to explain their way

around this if they turn their back on this

[.99center]

10. How many times have we heard Republicans promise action against Trump's ongoing crimes.

You're kidding yourself if you think republicans are going to get to the bottom of the collusion between Trump, the GOP, and Putin.

[riversedge]

11. Give credit where it is due. Thank you Sen. Burr

[JudyM]

12. Anyone from that party at this point, we'll take it. Bunch of sycophants.