House Intel panel subpoenas Barr for full Mueller report, evidence

The House Intelligence Committee has issued a subpoena for documents and materials related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s election interference.

The panel’s chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), issued the subpoena to Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday evening, accusing the Justice Department of failing to negotiate with the committee or comply with the panel’s bipartisan requests for Mueller’s files.

The committee is demanding Mueller’s full unredacted report, the underlying evidence, and all counterintelligence and foreign intelligence materials generated in the course of the investigation. It set a May 15 deadline for the Justice Department to hand over the materials.

View the complete May 8 article by Morgan Chalfant on The Hill website here.

House Intelligence Panel Is Rushing to Complete Russia Probe

The following article by Nicholas Fandos was posted on the Washington Post website December 15, 2017:

Representative Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said he had a list of at least two dozen witnesses whom Republicans have been unwilling to call in their investigation. Credit Mark Wilson/Getty Images

WASHINGTON — The House Intelligence Committee is racing to complete its investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, scheduling a host of witness interviews here and in New York for next week as Congress heads for its break, and, Democrats said, leaving other leads unfollowed.

Some of the most important witnesses are to be interviewed in New York by committee staff early next week, possibly leaving Democrats to choose between attending those depositions or voting on the massive tax bill coming before the House. Continue reading “House Intelligence Panel Is Rushing to Complete Russia Probe”