House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said on Thursday that the FBI has agreed to hand over documents related to the Trump dossier to the House, after the Washington Post reported that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund the research that ended up in the explosive document.
After the Post’s report came out, Ryan on Wednesday complained that the FBI had been “stonewalling” the House’s requests for documents related to the dossier and called on the FBI to hand over the documents.
Ryan said Thursday that he was “frustrated to have learned through the media aspects about this investigation that we’ve been asking for documents from the FBI for months.” He then added that the FBI has agreed to share the documents.
“Since yesterday morning, the FBI got in touch with us yesterday afternoon and they have informed us that they will comply with our document request and that they will provide the documents Congress has been asking for next week,” Ryan told reporters at a press conference.
House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes (R-CA), who stepped aside from the committee’s Russia investigation, asked for documents from the FBI related to the Trump dossier. The committee subpoenaed the FBI for information on whether the FBI tried to independently confirm information in the dossier or paid former British spy Christopher Steele for the dossier. Nunes also asked for information on whether the federal government used the dossier to justify surveillance on Americans.
After the Washington Post report came out, Nunes on Wednesday complained that the FBI had not complied with a document request with information related to the dossier.
“We are continuing to get stonewalled not just by Fusion GPS, we’re also having problems, speaker of the House this morning called on the DOJ and the FBI to get us the information that we’ve been asking for, that we’ve subpoenaed for for over two months regarding this dossier,” he told Fox News.
