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Rosenstein Threatened To ‘Subpoena’ GOP-Led Committee In ‘Chilling’ Clash Over Records, Emails Show | FOX News

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FOX News: Emails reviewed by FOX News showed that earlier this year, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein threatened to “subpoena” emails, phone records and other documents from lawmakers and staff on a Republican-led House committee.The emails document a January 2018 closed-door meeting involving senior FBI and Justice Department officials as well as members of the House Intelligence Committee.

 

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The emails memorialized a January 2018 closed-door meeting involving senior FBI and Justice Department officials as well as members of the House Intelligence Committee. The account claimed Rosenstein threatened to turn the tables on the committee’s inquiries regarding the Russia probe.

“The DAG [Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein] criticized the Committee for sending our requests in writing and was further critical of the Committee’s request to have DOJ/FBI do the same when responding,” the committee’s then-senior counsel for counterterrorism Kash Patel wrote to the House Office of General Counsel. “Going so far as to say that if the Committee likes being litigators, then ‘we [DOJ] too [are] litigators, and we will subpoena your records and your emails,’ referring to HPSCI [House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence] and Congress overall.”

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Source: Rosenstein Threatened To ‘Subpoena’ GOP-Led Committee In ‘Chilling’ Clash Over Records, Emails Show | FOX News

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