Senate Investigators Turn Focus to Carter Page and Trump's Foreign Policy Team
Source: Newsweek Magazine
BY MAX KUTNER ON 11/29/17 AT 1:38 PM
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee has sent letters requesting interviews with three former members of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and documents from a fourth member, advancing the panel’s investigation into Russian meddling and possible collusion.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is one of three congressional panels examining Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election and possible coordination with the Trump campaign. On Tuesday, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member of the committee, sent letters to Carter Page, Sam Clovis, Walid Phares and J.D. Gordon. The letters asked Clovis, Phares and Gordon to provide documents and schedule interviews with the committee for December. From Page, who has already testified about Russia before the House and Senate intelligence committees, the senator asked only for documents. Her office announced the requests on Wednesday.
Page, Phares and Gordon were members of the Trump campaign’s foreign policy team. Clovis helped oversee the team and is now a White House adviser to the Department of Agriculture (USDA). In early November, amid controversy over his nomination and his proximity to the Russia issue, he withdrew from consideration to be chief scientist for that department.
Another person who was on the foreign policy team, George Papadopoulos, has pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents investigating Russian meddling and possible collusion.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/senate-feinstein-grassley-russia-page-clovis-phares-gordon-726175
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