As soon as I read this in the NYT, memories of Watergate came rushing back.
But a senior White House official said that Donald F. McGahn II, the president’s chief counsel, was working to secure access to what Mr. McGahn believed to be an order issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorizing some form of surveillance related to Mr. Trump and his associates.
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Any request for information from a top White House official about a continuing investigation would be a stunning departure from protocols intended to insulate the F.B.I. from political pressure. It would be even more surprising for the White House to seek information about a case directly involving the president or his advisers, as does the case involving the Russia contacts.
Many of the people involved with one of the presidency’s worst scandals were prosecuted for obstruction of justice. The idea that the White House counsel is now looking into a possible FISA court warrant against his client is pretty freaken crazy. I’m not even a lawyer and it looks like interference to me.
The saying has been that the cover-up is worse than the crime, but this crime of colluding with a hostile nation is so bad that we can expect all kinds of crimes by insiders trying to cover it up, and all kinds of Republican cowardice as they do everything they can to block investigations.
Now the House Judiciary Democrats want to know what the hell is going on?!
Democrats are keeping the pressure on the Trump/GOP efforts to cover up the biggest scandal in American history, and a real threat to our nations security. The Democrats don’t have a lot of tools at their disposal, but they’re doing a good job of trying to keep the spotlight on this growing swamp.
RESIST
UPDATE: Senator Schumer is joining in raising the question, is the WH interfering with an investigation.
In a letter being released Monday, the Senate’s top Democrat raised questions of potential political interference from the White House into the federal investigation. Among the issues Schumer wants Michael Horowitz, DOJ’s inspector general, to look into are whether any White House official has attempted to interfere with the federal probe and whether Sessions and Trump discussed the issue when the two men met privately in the Oval Office last month.
Schumer also demanded to know whether DOJ officials have faced pressure from the White House regarding the federal investigation, and whether Sessions’ refusal to recuse himself — until late last week — was “improper” under DOJ guidelines.