House GOP revives long-shot FBI probe

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Source: Politico







Republicans, however, are severely hindered since they're in the minority.


01/21/2019 08:01 AM EST


House Republicans were sent into the purgatory of the minority after their midterm drubbing. But they are still pressing ahead with longstanding probes into the FBI and DOJ — even though they lack much power to do anything about it.

Barely three weeks into the minority, a band of Trump loyalists says they want to revive the remnants of an investigation that formally concluded last year, which they believe shows that federal law enforcement officials weaponized their biases against President Donald Trump in 2016 while he was a candidate for president.

Yet the group, led by Reps. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), won’t have a single tool at their disposal to compel testimony or demand documents, and not nearly enough manpower to keep up with the work.

“We’ve got to keep digging for the truth no matter what,” Jordan said, confirming that he is working with a handful of Republicans to continue the work of a joint effort with the Judiciary Committee that former chairmen Trey Gowdy and Bob Goodlatte pursued last year.............................

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/21/weve-got-to-keep-digging-house-gop-revives-longshot-fbi-probe-1115133

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silly boys with their bitterness showing.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/21/weve-got-to-keep-digging-house-gop-revives-longshot-fbi-probe-1115133

Jim Jordan

Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, who will be the top Republican on the Oversight Committee, said he has tasked staff to stay the course on the GOP’s investigations into the FBI. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo

[still_one]

1. F**K THEM. There is a new sherrif in town.

[irresistable]

2. Jim Jordan needs to explain to us how stories of molestation of players could be "locker room talk"

He should investigate that.

[FM123]

3. Really?

“We’ve got to keep digging for the truth no matter what,” Jordan said

Idiots! I'm surprised they haven't teamed up with OJ to find "the real killers"

[forgotmylogin]

11. You keep digging, eventually you just get dirt.

[salin]

4. A farce performed for their two audiences: Trump, and the Q crowd of the base.

[janx]

10. Honestly, I'm laughing out loud!

But Gowdy's gone, isn't he?

[BumRushDaShow]

5. "they want to revive the remnants of an investigation"

There is no "revival". They are DONE. KAPUT. FINI.

[Achilleaze]

6. What, no Benghazi fest? republicans are getting soft

As directed by the kremlin, they are usually even more twisted in coming up with ways to squander our tax money on their KGOP witch hunts.

[Autumn]

7. The Dems should give them their hearings as long as they are televised.

Let everyone see their stupid bullshit game.

[beachbum bob]

8. no power at all so its all PR as usual

[paleotn]

9. Yea, you do that.

It's not been called the House of hicks and hacks for nothing.

[Texin]

12. This is just so much bullshit. Can't Pelosi effectively shut them down by disallowing funding

for their reverse *witch hunt*? They'll be ginning up one wild ass lie after another to drag it over to Fux Spews and Jeanine Pirro will be shrieking like a harpy for the next two years. The House Ethics Committee should investigate these magats [sic.] for wasting the taxpayers' dollars on this shit.

[keithbvadu2]

13. Aren't you going to investigate the four soldiers Trump killed in Niger, JIm?

Aren't you going to investigate the four soldiers Trump killed in Niger, Jim?

[BlueIdaho]

14. Deny them a meeting room.

Assign them a broom closet...

[DonViejo]

15. Locking...

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