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发帖数: 61690 | 1 he top Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees are asking
the Justice Department to turn over documents they say could be "evidence"
that the FBI showed "political bias or personal animus" toward former
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.
Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), the ranking members
of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, respectively, called on
two top Justice Department officials on Monday to share information about
possible leaks from the FBI to True Pundit, a conservative website, during
the bureau's investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server as
secretary of State.
“Our committees are now engaged in an investigation of allegations of
politically-motivated misconduct at the FBI," the Democrats wrote in a
letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein.
“The facts point to a coordinated effort by some in the FBI to change the
course of the Clinton investigation by leaking sensitive information to the
public, and by threatening to leak additional information after the
investigation was closed," they continued, while asking for information
about “politically-motivated misconduct."
The two Democrats asked whether True Pundit's reporting, which cited sources
within the government, influenced the FBI’s decision to reopen the email
probe shortly before the election.
The site, which they described as a “fringe conspiracy website," said the
bureau did not charge Clinton because of a political bias that favored her.
Nadler and Cummings, however, wanted to see if the FBI's potential ties to
True Pundit could reveal an anti-Clinton bias within the FBI.
They also requested information about the knowledge former Trump campaign
aides like Michael Flynn or other Trump allies might have had about the
email probe. |
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