After months of threatening to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Donald Trump’s closest Republican allies in the House have filed the paperwork to do so.
That’s House Freedom Caucus members Mark Meadows of North Carolina and Jim Jordan of Ohio along with nine other GOP cosponsors. Their main beef has been that Rosenstein, who is overseeing the investigation into Russia’s 2016 election attack, hasn’t been responsive enough to the ceaseless number of document requests made by House members who appear intent on hampering the investigation. That’s just plain crap, to be perfectly honest. Rosenstein has released thousands of documents into the ongoing investigation per requests from the Meadows, Jordan, and the chief GOP agitator, House Intelligence chair Devin Nunes.
In fact, Nunes has had an open invitation to review a number of documents that he hasn’t even made good on. The latest example of his failure to review such documents is the FISA warrant to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. CNN reports:
Thirty members of Congress have reviewed largely unredacted copies of the highly sensitive surveillance-warrant applications on Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, but House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes still has not -- despite having issued a subpoena for the documents last year and more recently calling on President Donald Trump to declassify large swaths of the materials.
As for the unusual amount of material the Justice Department has already disclosed in its ongoing investigation, Republican Senate Intelligence chair Richard Burr went so far as to express his dismay in a statement on Tuesday.
"I cease to be amazed by how much stuff we release publicly now," Burr told CNN reporter Manu Raju, adding that there were “sound reasons” behind issuance of the FISA warrant on Page.
Wednesday, Jul 25, 2018 · 11:43:36 PM +00:00 · Kerry Eleveld
UPDATE: Looks like pure posturing, folks. From Politico reporter Rachael Bade:
IMPORTANT note: Conservatives chose NOT to file this as a privileged resolution. That means that they don't get to force a vote on it on the House floor. This avoids the GOP civil war that would take place if they DID try to force a vote on this. Rs VERY divided on the matter