Washington Post tonight covers Adam Schiff (D-CA) blasting GOP obstruction of the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia Probe.
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Quick summary of Schiff’s charges:
1: Chairman Nunes has ruled against witnesses, leaving “dozens” not interviewed.
2: GOP members blocked Deutsche Bank subpoenas related to Trump and alleged Russian money laundering.
3: GOP blocked subpoenas of Twitter for direct messages between Team Trump and Wikileaks fugitive and alleged Russian asset Julian Assange.
4: GOP leaders did not allow further investigation of the Trump Tower meeting between Team Trump and Russians connected to Putin, accepting heavily redacted phone records from Trump Jr and excusing Ivanka entirely.
5: Paul Ryan and Devin Nunes are trying to end the Probe prematurely.
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday detailed a list of witnesses and documents Democrats say Republicans have kept them from accessing during the panel’s Russia investigation, and blamed the committee’s chairman and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) for attempting to end the probe before it is complete.
Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) said that committee Republicans had blocked Democrats’ efforts to subpoena Deutsche Bank for financial records related to President Trump’s family on the suspicion that Russians “may have laundered money through Trump properties.” Democrats also were stymied in their effort to subpoena executives at Twitter, Schiff said, to secure the direct messages that members of Trump’s inner circle exchanged with representatives of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, who Democrats believe acted as Russian intermediaries during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Schiff complained that Republicans were unwilling to press those members of the Trump team who participated in a June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower for a complete record of their communications....
Schiff added that GOP leaders refused to seek testimony from additional witnesses with knowledge of the Trump Tower meeting, including Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and the president’s daughter....
[Schiff] blamed panel chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) for ruling against bringing in certain witnesses, “even when he recused himself” from running the committee’s probe....
Schiff also said that he would hold Ryan responsible if the House probe “is prematurely curtailed for political reasons.”