House Oversight Dems: GOP blocking request for Trump admin records
Source: the hill
By Brett Samuels - 03/15/18 04:42 PM EDT
Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said Thursday that committee Republicans are blocking efforts to get documents from the Trump administration necessary for an investigation into the White Houses use of private emails and private jets.
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In particular, Democrats on the panel are interested in White House senior adviser Jared Kushner's testimony about his actions prior to having his security clearance downgraded from "top secret" to "secret," Reuters reported.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking Democrat on the committee, wrote a letter to Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Wednesday urging the chairman to subpoena the White House for documents.
"When you served as Chairman of the Benghazi Select Committee, you took a completely different approach to investigating Secretary of State Hillary Clintons use of private email, Cummings wrote. You demanded and I supported the production of all of her emails relating to Benghazi."
"In contrast, since President Trump assumed office, you have refused to insist on the production of documents we both requested five months ago," he added.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/378670-house-oversight-dems-gop-stalling-on-trump-administration-records-request
Hypocrite is too of a term. There is #corruption by the Repugs in Congress.
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SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)Clearly more important looking at someone who is now in public life, rather than the CRIMINAL in the White House.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Dumbfounding, really.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)they're going out in full corpus delicti...with blood on their hands, so to speak. They know they won't get re-elected, after their open corrupt acts. They sold out their country for money. They'll go on to lucrative careers, with pockets stuffed with cash from paybacks and tax cuts and future deals.
bucolic_frolic
(43,115 posts)which means they have other plans that do not involve bipartisanship or democracy.
Farmer-Rick
(10,151 posts)Just like No One held the banks accountable for massive fraud and the crash of the US economy. And like No One held the W. RepubliCONS accountable for torture and spying on Americans without warrants.
So, it's not that they think they wont get caught or identified, it's just that no one has ever bothered to prosecute them when they were caught red handed. We seem to have a history of allowing RepuliCONS to get out of jail free.
bucolic_frolic
(43,115 posts)they are the "job creators" and can make life miserable if they want to