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Feinstein demands White House hand over details on Russia, Comey firing
By Jordain Carney - 10/27/17 03:22 PM EDT
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein
(D-Calif.) is asking the White House for documents tied to former FBI
Director James Comey's firing and top Trump campaign officials, as
Democrats move forward with their own investigation.
"The
Judiciary Committee requested documents related to the White House's
interactions with FBI Director James Comey regarding the FBI's
investigation of alleged ties between President Trump's associates and
Russia, or the [Hillary] Clinton email investigation. ... To date, we
have received no response to these requests," Feinstein wrote in
a wide-ranging letter to White House counsel Don McGahn.
The letter comes after Feinstein signaled that Democrats would push ahead with their own investigation into Trump, Comey and Russia's election interference amid an apparent split with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the committee.
"We
have decided that each side is going to take a course and we'll share
and if the other side wants to participate they can. ... So we are going
ahead with some things," Feinstein told reporters.
The
fracture of what had been a bipartisan probe appears to spawn out of a
GOP push to revisit Obama-era scandals and dig into a controversial
opposition research dossier compiled on Trump. Democrats argue the
committee should be focused on Russia's election interference and any
potential collusion.
Feinstein, in addition to the
Judiciary Committee's outstanding requests, submitted more than a
dozen additional requests for information to McGahn.
That includes asking for a letter from Attorney General Jeff Sessions
about Comey, as well as a memo from Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein, which was originally used as the White House's reasoning for
firing Comey.
Feinstein also wants press
statements on Comey's firing and any documents from a White House
meeting between Trump and Russian officials in May. The New York Times
reported that Trump bragged during the meeting about firing Comey, who
he called "crazy, a real nut job."
She is also
asking for any documents tied to former Trump campaign chairman Paul
Manafort, any communications from the Trump campaign's foreign policy
team and all campaign communication tied to trying to "obtain,
coordinate or otherwise use" information from Russian officials.
Feinstein
is requesting that McGahn hand over information or statements on the
July 2016 Trump Tower meeting, which included Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr., Manafort and a Russian lawyer.
The
letter is one of five sent on Friday by Feinstein, who is up for
reelection next year and facing a primary challenge from the left.
She's
also asking Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to be interviewed by the
Judiciary Committee next month, and provide communications with dozen of
individuals and documents tied to Russia's election interference.
Feinstein
sent additional requests for information on Friday to Facebook and
Twitter, as well as Cambridge Analytica, a data mining and analysis firm
that worked for the campaign
The two social
media companies have also been wrapped into a separate probe by the
Senate Intelligence Committee. Feinstein is a member of that panel as
well.
The Daily Beast reported Wednesday that
Alexander Nix, Cambridge Analytica’s CEO, told a third party that he
reached out to the WikiLeaks founder last year about the emails that
Clinton deleted from the server she used while secretary of State.
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