We have a deal!
That’s what House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy just declared, announcing that they’ve reached a deal with the Justice Department for access to previously unavailable documents.
#BREAKING: @HouseJudiciary & @GOPoversight have reached an agreement with DOJ to access the documents we’ve been requesting for months. https://t.co/UzRI8zpq5u
— Bob Goodlatte (@RepGoodlatte) April 23, 2018
We look forward to reviewing the information to better understand decisions made by DOJ in 2016 and 2017. Congress has a constitutional responsibility to preserve the integrity of our justice system by ensuring transparency and accountability of actions taken.
— Bob Goodlatte (@RepGoodlatte) April 23, 2018
The two congressmen released the following joint statement:
Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) released the following statement after reaching an agreement with Department of Justice (DOJ) Assistant Attorney General Stephen E. Boyd and United States Attorney John Lausch to review and obtain documents and information pursuant to the Committees’ joint investigation into decisions made in 2016 and 2017.
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So what does this mean? What do these documents apply to? Who will go to jail?
(I’m jesting on the last question…only a little).
In their statement, Gowdy and Goodlatte provide a helpful list of the incidents the documents cover:
- In October 2017, the Committees opened a joint investigation into the decisions made by the Department of Justice in 2016 and 2017.
- In December 2017, the Committees sent a follow-up letter requesting documents and information regarding the FBI’s decision making in 2016 and 2017.
- On March 22, the House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to the Department of Justice for documents pursuant to the Committees’ joint investigation.
- On April 11, Chairman Goodlatte and Chairman Gowdy met with U.S. Attorney John Lausch to discuss the Committees’ access to documents related to our joint investigation.
The phrase “decisions made by the Department of Justice in 2016 and 2017” refers to the DOJ’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible ties to the Russian government, which has resulted in a special counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller.
Gowdy and Goodlatte seem determined to get to the bottom of all the shenanigans Obama’s DOJ pulled during the presidential campaign, including potential wiretapping of members of the Trump campaign, and maybe even a set-up of Trump using the debunked dossier.
It’s great they finally reached a deal on the documents. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been stonewalling this House-led investigation for some time.
What do you think? With Gowdy on the case, will they find something corrupt at the bottom of all of this? Tell us your thoughts below!
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I am losing faith in our justice system. It’s been a long time coming starting with Eric Holder trying to entrap firearms dealers with Fast & Furious.
Then the tarmac meeting of Loretta Lynch and Clinton’s discussion of grand kids, as if government aircraft fly around and drop in anonymously for a “fancy bumping into you here” moment.
Then we have what appears to be a frame up of Trump – like him or not, who supports that in my America? Well, we are about to find out aren’t we? I’m not holding my breath, BTW. Swamp creatures interbreed to insure survival of their offspring.
Then the miscellaneous sad sack people forced to face bankrupty because the big foot of the FBI “wants to ask you a couple of questions”. They are financially ruined in most cases.
So yeah. It’s time to either put or shut up. If you can’t make the case against the FBI and Clinton players in this, tear down the DoJ building. We don’t need it anymore.
I continue to be baffled by Jeff Session’s resistance to supply anyone anything that went on during the Ohbongo Administration. Is Sessions a member of President Trump’s Cabinet or not? I don’t get what is going on in the Justice Department. Why doesn’t President Trump just call over to the Justice Department and tell them to send him all the information RIGHT NOW? He is the President, you know!
Does moderation here mean you comment dies?
Thank God for Trey Gowdy, most likely the last honest person left serving in Congress. What they will find is that the FBI under Obama’s Administration ignored protocol when requesting a FISA which is illegal. The fact that anyone in the FBI can request and receive a FISA based on a fraudulent document and that the fraudulent document used to secure the FISA was paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC as well as not notifying the Court as to this inherent fact is mortifying! Think about that for a minute……if this could happen to a candidate for President, think how easy it would be to do that to any Tom, Dick or Harry..all that is necessary is to make up a fake document and swear it is true evidence to acquire a FISA to spy on anyone! This is insane and should make every single American citizen very nervous. :-(
What will they find?
Most likely they will find that the FBI was investigating Russian spies working to damage America. When they got the wire taps, they also found the people who were working with the Russian spies. The communist sympathizers who were looking to sell out America. This article tells us that the people the FBI found working with the Russians also worked for Trump.
Well, poppDavid, it has become common knowledge the people who were paying the Russians and were working with them were all on HilLIARy’s campaign. What evidence do you have to make the statement you have made about President Trump? Everyone has the HilLIARy evidence, but no one (except you) seems to have any evidence about the President.
Sessions has either been threatened or he has been compromised in some way. For him to recuse himself and then stall and drag his feet on much of this investigation by Mueller smells like the deep state got to him in some way. Either that or he has been using his time to focus on other things not being talked about in the media…maybe the human trafficking and pedophile rings. I hope it is the latter. It would be a shame and a real disappointment if sessions folded under deep state threats. Somehow..he doesn’t seem like the type who would fold. Hard to read him. Either way this farce needs to come to a close and the people involved in this need to face justice. The criminals in the previous administration need to be held accountable for their lawlessness and disregard of the rule of law. It is time to purge the government of this criminal under belly that has manipulated and controlled the government for decades.
Yes, and hopefully start to regain the peoples’ trust in the FBI and DOJ. I agree 100% about Sessions. I have wondered for a long time if he had been threatened. Aside from that he seems to lack the appropriate aggression for someone in his position. He did show real passion when he spoke out against CA being a sanctuary state. He declared he would put a stop to it. I was pleasantly surprised to hear him say this with real emotion (anger).
Kevin, You could be on to something that had not thought about. The Clinton cartel is real good at those kinds of things, and other could have learned from them. It is past time for this to end, and move on to the rest of the crap from the Clinton’s and the O admin. they should find enough to put a bunch of people in prison {and NOT the luxury prison settings.}
Interesting how folks jump on anything negative about Trump but when the dirt shows up on Obama’s administration it is labeled a “distraction”. Distraction from the going nowhere Russia probe? With all the stonewalling about access to the Obama documents, it is entirely possible for the “probe” to lead in a new direction.
Looking for people to finally be held responsible here.
They will find nothing. It’s allready fact Obama didn’t wire tap. Perhaps some distraction.?
call me dumb, this is a joke, right? then what was the FISA Warrant based on FBI lies about? is there some question in your mind about WHO (not Obama?) was doing the spying or WHAT “wire tapping” means?
The OLIGARCHY is alive and well! Nothing short of an armed revolt will change anything now. The Constitutional Republic, America, was defeated without a shot being fired. With open arms they were invited in through the front door. It’s known as socialism/communism.
Does anyone believe that our justice department will lock up a retired POTUS wife ? Hillary knows this and so does our Congress and Senate. It’s a Rigged system for the Washington Hacks ,it’s just not right. If not stopped now….when will it happen ?
Does anyone believe that our justice department will lock up a retired POTUS wife
Agree: It will never happen they all protect their own.
they, do not play lets make a deal with ordinary citizens and organizations.
Will anything come of this?Nope!
Just Washington continuing to do what they have done best: Nothing!
Really good, concise timeline of how Comey, Lerner, McCabe, Mueller, Clinton, Clinton Foundation are all tied together — and have been for a long time.
Read this for an incredibly simplified version of what has been going on in Circle-Jerk DC!!? It spells it
Incest, it’s Incestuous
From 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
A Grand Jury had been empaneled.
Governments from around the world had donated to the “Charity”.
Yet, from 2001 to 2003 none of those “Donations” to the Clinton Foundation were declared.
Hmmm, now you would think that an honest investigator would be able to figure this out.
Guess who took over this investigation in 2002?
Bet you can’t guess.
No other than James “Wassup Homey” Comey.
Now, that’s interesting, isn’t it?
Guess who was transferred in to the Internal Revenue Service to run the Tax Exemption Branch of the IRS?
Your friend and mine, our favorite person in the whole world if you are a Tea Party Member, Pro-Life or a True the Vote supporter……. ding, ding, ding, ding Lois “Be on The Look Out” (BOLO) Lerner.
Now, that’s interesting, isn’t it?
It gets better, well not really, but I am sure this is all just a series of strange coincidences, right?
Guess who ran the Tax Division inside the Department of Injustice from 2001 to 2005?
No other than the Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Rod Rosenstein.
Now, that’s interesting, isn’t it?
Guess who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during this timeframe???
I know, it’s a miracle, just a coincidence, just an anomaly in statistics and chances, Robert Mueller.
What do all four casting characters have in common?
They all were briefed and/or were front line investigators into the Clinton Foundation Investigation.
Now that’s just a coincidence, right?
Ok, lets chalk the last one up to mere chance.
Let’s fast forward to 2009, shall we?
James “Wassup Homey” Comey leaves the Justice Department to go and cash-in at Lockheed Martin.
Hillary Clinton is running the State Department, on her own personal email server by the way.
The Uranium One “issue” comes to the attention of the Hildabeast.
Like all good public servants do, you know looking out for America’s best interest, she decides to support the decision and approve the sale of 20% of US Uranium to no other than, the Russians.
Now you would think that this is a fairly straight up deal, except it wasn’t, the People got absolutely nothing out of it.
However, prior to the sales approval, no other than Arkansas Bill goes to Moscow, gets paid 500K for a one hour speech then meets with Vladimir Putin at his home for a few hours.
Ok, no big deal right?
Well, not so fast, the FBI had a mole inside the money laundering and bribery scheme.
Guess who was the FBI Director during this timeframe?
Yep, Robert Mueller.
He even delivered a Uranium Sample to Moscow in 2009.
Guess who was handling that case within the Justice Department out of the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland.
No other than, Rod Rosenstein.
Guess what happened to the informant?
The Department of Justice placed a GAG order on him and threatened to lock him up if he spoke out about it.
Interesting, huh?
How does 20% of the most strategic asset of the United States of America end up in Russian hands when the FBI has an informant, a mole providing inside information to the FBI on the criminal enterprise?
Guess what happened soon after the sale was approved?
~145 million dollars in “donations” made their way into the Clinton Foundation from entities directly connected to the Uranium One deal.
Guess who was still at the Internal Revenue Service working the Charitable Division?
No other than, Lois “BOLO” Lerner.
Interesting, huh?
Ok, that’s all just another series of coincidences, nothing to see here, right?
Let’s fast forward to 2015.
Due to a series of tragic events in Benghazi and after the 9 “investigations” the House, Senate and at State Department, Trey Gowdy who was running the 10th investigation as Chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi discovers that the Hildabeast ran the State Department on a unclassified, unauthorized, outlaw personal email server.
He also discovered that none of those emails had been turned over when she departed her “Public Service” as Secretary of State which was required by law.
He also discovered that there was Top Secret information contained within her personally archived email.
I will spare you the State Departments cover up, the nostrums they floated, the delay tactics that were employed and the outright lies that were spewed forth from the necks of the Kerry State Department, we shall leave it with this…… they did everything humanly possible to cover for the Hildabeast.
Now this is amazing, guess who became FBI Director in 2013?
Guess who secured 17 no bid contracts for his employer with the State Department and was rewarded with a six million dollar thank you present when he departed his employer.
No other than James “Wassup Homey” Comey.
Amazing how all those no-bids just went right through at State, huh?
Now he is the FBI Director in charge of the “Clinton Email Investigation” after of course his FBI Investigates the Lois Lerner “Matter” at the Internal Revenue Service and exonerates her.
Nope couldn’t find any crimes there.
Can you guess what happened next?
In April 2016, James “Wassup Homey” Comey drafts an exoneration letter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile the DOJ is handing out immunity deals like candy.
They didn’t even convene a Grand Jury.
Like a lightning bolt of statistical impossibility, like a miracle from God himself, like the true “Gangsta” Homey is, James steps out into the cameras of an awaiting press conference on July the 8th of 2016, and exonerates the Hildabeast from any wrongdoing.
Can you see the pattern?
I could go on, Rosenstein becomes Asst. Attorney General, Comey gets fired based upon a letter by Rosenstein, Comey leaks government information to the press, Mueller is assigned to the Russian Investigation sham by Rosenstein to provide cover for decades of malfeasance within the FBI and DOJ and the story continues.
FISA Abuse, political espionage….. pick a crime, any crime, chances are…… this group and a few others did it.
All the same players.
All compromised and conflicted.
All working fervently to NOT go to jail themselves.
All connected in one way or another to the Clinton’s.
They are like battery acid, they corrode and corrupt everything they touch.
How many lives have these two destroyed?
It cannot be numbered.
Incest, it’s Incestuous
As of this writing, the Clinton Foundation, in its 20+ years of operation of being the largest International Charity Fraud in the history of mankind, has never been audited by the Internal Revenue Service.
Well if Trey Gowdy has his way Justice will be served!!. All of those in our government and our Congress if they are guilty of any wrong doing or otherwise connected to our President which there appears to be an organized conspiracy group of many big name politicians involved. Plenty of evidence already on many enough to indict and make arrest I would think from what I have read and heard many times against certain individuals, especially Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton enough evidence against her to throw the book at her. Trey Gowdy and Goodlatte could pretty much drain the swamp of corruption once they get themselves into the heart of the criminal activities. Clearly from all that we have heard of so much corruption many should be uneasy as this investigation unwinds in exposing the truth within our justice system.. Now AG Sessions needs to get on board too and be a lot more cooperative than he has been so far. If not fire him and get an AG that is interested in finding the truth and justice served no matter who’s toes get step on or who’s careers are broken up or ruined. Clearly there are many involved with this dog and pony show and miscarriage of justice. Trey Gowdy will get the answers that all of America are looking for..
The DOJ paid by the taxpayers. The House reps the taxpayers. So what is this about ‘A DEAL’? Throw the bums in jail if they do not comply. Ask Scooter Libby – he went to jail on a trunped up charge. I am so disappointed with Trey. All smoke and no fire!
Does the real Russian collusion involve Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein? On pages 100-103 of his book, Killing the Deep State, Jerome Corsi ties Rosenstein and Mueller to the Uranium One scandal as follows. During 2009 the FBI obtained evidence that a Russian spy network was operating through Tenam USA, a uranium trucking company, using bribery and extortion to get approval of the Russian acquisition of Uranium One by CFIUS (Hillary Clinton’s committee). Then FBI director, Robert Mueller, put the Tenam investigation under the US attorney in Maryland, Rod Rosenstein. Obama’s FBI suppressed this investigation and Russian Nuclear officials funneled millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation. I wonder if Mueller and Rosenstein are doggedly pursuing Trump in order to keep the investigative spotlight off of the Uranium One scandal and their involvement in it?
Why did they have to “reach a deal”? So I guess if I ever get a subpoena for documents I can just ignore it until I get a deal I like?
That’s what I was wondering, Tom. Why do they have to beg, plead, cajole and make DEALS to get documents they are LEGALLY ENTITLED to see as part of their investigation? The Obama-infested DOJ is OUT OF CONTROL. If Sessions was worth a spit–which he obviously is NOT–he would have made a list of ALL the Obama holdover SUBVERSIVES still in the DOJ and FIRED them on his FIRST day as Attorney General. That ALL of them are still there is a testimony to his UTTER uselessness in that position.
When you look at what is being gleaned out of the files they have recovered you really have to wonder what was in all the stuff that was destroyed – the stuff was priority one for them to get rid of.
They have had a long time for the shredders etc to be running night and day – people “cleaning” /destroying computers and hard drives. It is insanity how long they have had to cover their trial – yet they raid President Trump’s lawyers office?
Barack Obama: “The only people that don’t want to disclose the truth, are people with something to hide.” – kind of funny coming from the guy who was so desperate to have all of his records sealed away from the public.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhFB7-w2MY8
“So what does this mean? ” – I dunno – just that the Clintons and DOJ feel they have adequately destroyed anything that could hurt them?
Sessions is useless idiot at best, or part of Deep state at worst
I respect Mr. Gowdy and I think he and Mr. Goodlatte wants to do the right thing but that is next to impossible with all of the control the Democrats and swamp people have in Washington. If you remember how things have gone down in the past, Clinton not charged with any of the illegal stuff she has done from email scandal to laundering money through her foundation. Then there is that arrogant, self-centered Obama that no one dares to accuse of any wrong doings. He has done so much wrong it has set this country back 50 years and that is pathetic. Same ole same ole just a different verse.
“debunked dossier”?
Lies, lies, lies.
As investigations proceed, they support the Steele Dossier, and tend to debunk the propagandists throwing shade on the document. There is a concerted organized program of lies trying to undermine the investigation of the most corrupt president in our Nation’s history. So many of the Right-wing elite have participated in obstructing justice and suborning perjury that, if the Trump regime falls, their jobs, fortunes and very lives will fall too. Be very careful whose lies you cosign.
Pat, the most corrupt President in our history–BAR NONE–was one Barrack Hussein Obama. Nobody ELSE even comes close. I don’t know what YOU are babbling about, but you are obviously BLIND to the truth!
Wow. Spin that as past POTUS & the crooked left wing…..I have seen NOTHING that proves the Steele Dossier, anywhere.
IT would be so nice to see Comey, Hillary, and others all locked up, but I will not be holding my breath. Seeing actual justice served would be literally miraculous.
What’s this “deal?” Why should they have to “make a deal” to see something we are entitled to see!!!
Rosenstein needs to be fired, first and foremost. Then Sessions has said he will quit if that happens. Goodby you little Deep State slug. And if he doesn’t go, fire him too. Then move not at a snails pace as is everything about this whole investigation but speed the pace so statutes are running on everything that can be charged. I am unsure if Gowdy has the “closure” ability to do anything about this. He sure let Benghazi slide without a peep. And now he is leaving the Govt. employment. IF he is positioning himself to become the next AG, I think he is perfect for it. But if that is not the plan, Christie may be a perfect choice. I am tired of this dragging everything out and the reporting trying to get us excited about anything so we have something to read. I wonder if anybody will really pay for any of this. And if they don’t, Trump will lose many many voters. So, waiting waiting waiting.
Hey, I like that a “Deep State Slug” for Sessions, agree 100% with you.
I’d also like to know when these criminals are going to jail. The entire system is so corrupt, America needs military tribunals. The corruption needs to be weeded out and the constitution restored.
Yada, yada, yada. Much ado about nothing. The demohitler orks and clintorises will weasel their filthy way out and point their grubby, shltcovered fingers at any “unfaithfuls” or deplorables they can “blame” and step up their stinking attacks on the first and second amendments all the while protecting their brown nosed, lying media lap dog morons, the PsOS.
Two questions: Why have those “papers” been kept under lock and key of a person in who refused to identify himself running for the Oval Office? Why did Mr. Gowdy decline to question Barack Obama on his constitutional eligibility knowing he was a British subject at birth? OK, question 3: When did a British subject become a natural born citizen of the USA?
Since Congressman Gowdy was in charge of the Benghazi and Hillary email investigations, I’m not going to hold my breath. More posturing, more taxpayer dollars down the drain and business as usual inside the beltway.
Why is Jeff Sessions stonewalling anything? He should be thrown out on his ear, and I’m sure the President will do just the when the time is right. Sessions is a tremendous disappointment.
I believe everything we will talk about here in this forum will be speculation until we see the hard facts and the truth forthcoming out of the mess that is the swamp. If anyone can get to the truth it will be Gowdy and Goodlatte. I am looking forward to see what is done about it. I want to see the criminals go to jail.
Sessions has done more to hurt Trump than the democrats , the guy is incompetent and has said in the past he will not prosecute members of government and it doesn’t even matter if they deserve to be prosecuted .
He’s an atrocious A.G.
I will give up,if nothing becomes out of all that,what else to they need to send her to jail?then there is that deal with the Uranium one,that schould be a nother 10 years or so,I just would be happy if she gets 5 years & up to what ever ?,im old,and dont got that long to live,but i like to see yet for her to go to jail,and Obama 2,plus the rest of the swamp,but Hillary and Obama in jail,i would’net ask for any thing else any more..Thank u god..
why the ‘H’ is Sessions still holding that job???
I will give up,if nothing becomes out of all that,what else to they need to send her to jail?then there is that deal with the Uranium one,that schould be a nother 10 years or so,I just would be happy if she gets 5 years & up to what ever ?,im old,and dont got that long to live,but i like to see yet for her to go to jail,and Obama 2,plus the rest of the swamp,but Hillary and Obama in jail,i would’net ask for any thing else any more..Thank u god..
WE NEED TREY GOWDY OR CHRIS CHRISTIE AS ATTY GEN. IT IS ABOUT TIME THOSE DOCUMENTS ARE RELEASED OR PUT THEM IN JAIL FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
Jeff Session is part of the swamp and covering for Hillary, he ought to go to jail too as far as I’m concern.
Why isn’t Jeff Sessions being replaced immediately?