{"id":33021,"date":"2018-04-06T12:57:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T16:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33021"},"modified":"2018-04-06T12:57:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T16:57:43","slug":"oversight-is-difficult-when-needed-information-is-being-withheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33021","title":{"rendered":"Oversight Is Difficult When Needed Information Is Being Withheld"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Johnson<\/a> at Power Line<\/a> posted an article today about the ongoing efforts of Devin Nunes<\/a>, Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence<\/a> in the U.S. House of Representatives<\/a>, to obtain information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)<\/a>. The article notes that Kimberley Strassel<\/b> has entitled her weekly column at The Wall Street Journal<\/a> \u201cWhat is the FBI hiding?\u201d<\/a> It is beginning to look as if they are definitely hiding something.<\/p>\n

The article at Power Line notes:<\/p>\n

Strassel notes that House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes has just sent another letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray to demand yet again that they comply with an August 2017 subpoena and hand over, among other things, the electronic communication\u2014\u201cEC\u201d in investigative jargon\u2014that officially kicked off the counterintelligence investigation. In his letter, Rep. Nunes states that the FBI has provided only a \u201cheavily redacted\u201d version of the EC. Beyond that, the FBI would prefer not to give it up.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rep. Nunes is not amused. He writes: \u201cOn March 23, 2018, the FBI\u2019s Assistant Director for Legislative Affairs informed the Committee that the FBI would refuse to further unredact the EC based on its supposed sensitivity. The document in question is not highly classified, and law enforcement sources have apparently not been shy about leaking to the press information that the Department and Bureau refuse to share with Congress<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article at Power Line includes a copy of the letter sent by Representative Nunes. It is unfair to ask Congress to exercise Congressional oversight<\/a> without giving them the requested information. Hopefully the FBI will cooperate in the near future.<\/p>\n

Sara Carter has also been following this story. More details are available on her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Johnson at Power Line posted an article today about the ongoing efforts of Devin Nunes, Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the U.S. House of Representatives, to obtain information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11580,2316,11084,8203,5276,8401,300,4378],"class_list":["post-33021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-congressional-oversight","tag-devin-nunes","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation-fbi","tag-power-line-blog","tag-scott-johnson","tag-the-wall-street-journal","tag-united-states-house-of-representatives","tag-united-states-house-permanent-select-committee-on-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33024,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33021\/revisions\/33024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}