The House Intelligence Committee, led by Republicans, has opened a new investigation into both the Department of Justice and the FBI.
Ranking Member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told reporters the Democratic minority was informed of the apparently new investigations Monday night “for the first time.”
According to committee rules, the majority has to consult with the minority before opening an investigation.
Schiff said Monday night there was no such consultation.
“We learned about that for the first time here today,” Schiff said. “Now it has been publicly reported from time to time that there was a subset of the majority working on some kind of an investigation or inquiry into the Department of Justice and FBI, but apparently [Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif.,] made it formal today, according to the majority, the FBI’s under investigation and so is the Department ofJustice.”
Schiff called the investigations “a wholesale broadside” against the Justice Department and FBI.
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Politico reported in December a small group of GOP members on the committee had been meeting secretly to investigate the Justice Department and FBI’s handling of the dossier and hoped to release a detailed report of their findings in early 2018.
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JUST IN: House Intelligence Committee opens investigation into DOJ, FBI https://t.co/s3UeMDhDMt pic.twitter.com/ldoPEp5BMi
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 30, 2018
DOJ said doing this could compromise sources and put folks who feed us intelligence in harms ways. https://t.co/OH7jMsU8td
— Jericho_Hill (@Motoconomist) January 29, 2018
It will. We are in absolutely uncharted waters here, folks. HPSCI is in open, partisan revolt against FBI & IC. https://t.co/zsu6Ujy0w1
— John Schindler (@20committee) January 29, 2018
When we instituted Congressional oversight of the IC in the mid-70s, this sort of political BS was NEVER the intent. https://t.co/jSduHe8nVh
— John Schindler (@20committee) January 29, 2018
Schiff also stated that Nunes intends to launch investigations of the FBI and DOJ. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
— Leila Gardner (@leila_gardner) January 29, 2018
Well, it was normal in 1970s Argentina. https://t.co/lMK01roWep
— John Schindler (@20committee) January 29, 2018
So if you're our FBI tonight, the Republicans plan to investigate you.
If you're Russia, you get a pass.
— David Jolly (@DavidJollyFL) January 30, 2018
House Intel Turns Their Wrath on the REAL Enemies: FBI and DOJ Under Investigation https://t.co/kdi9DViDT9
— RedState (@RedState) January 30, 2018
…….All of this is for an ultimate goal of shutting down the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, along with any collusion or obstruction.
In order to do that, however, the Department of Justice and the FBI – two agencies that have worked in conjunction to keep the nation free from threats, both international and domestic – must be discredited, destroyed, brought down, and replaced with something more akin to a secret police force, accountable only to the Trump crown.
With that in mind, the House Intelligence Committee, chaired by Nunes, has announced an investigation into both the Justice Department and the FBI.
The rules for beginning an investigation state that the majority party must consult with the minority party before launching an investigation. That apparently didn’t happen.
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Think about what the Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee just did today: They told the entire country that the FBI is our enemy.
Not Russia. But our very own FBI.
That's irresponsible. And disgusting.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 30, 2018
The memo itself is far less important than the fact that GOP Congressmen are now at war with our own law enforcement and intelligence community, something in a lifetime of being a Republican I never expected to see. This will end badly.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 29, 2018
There is a country whose leader is being investigated by an agency that's being investigated secretly by a legislator who was on the leader's transition team, which that agency is investigating for colluding with a nation that's subject to sanctions the leader refuses to enforce.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) January 30, 2018
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