Schiff: ‘Probably Past Time’ For House Intel Panel To Subpoena White House

UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 27: House Intelligence ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., holds a media availability on the committee's Russia investigation on Monday, Feb. 27, 2017. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Cal... UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 27: House Intelligence ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., holds a media availability on the committee's Russia investigation on Monday, Feb. 27, 2017. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images) MORE LESS
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, on Sunday said it’s “probably past time” for his panel to issue the White House a subpoena for documents about President Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of James Comey as director of the FBI in May.

The New York Times on Friday reported that Trump and a senior adviser drew up a draft of a letter justifying Comey’s termination that was never sent out, but was recently acquired by special counsel Robert Mueller as part of his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Schiff on CNN’s “State of the Union” said he has not seen the document in question.

“We wrote to the White House, after the claim was made that the President had tapes of his discussions with Comey, to ask about anything memorializing any conversations with Comey,” Schiff said.

He said the White House “first responded by tweet and then by letter saying they didn’t have any such thing.”

“If this is responsive to our letter, they need to produce it,” Schiff said. “And it’s probably past time for our committee to subpoena the White House to make sure we get all relevant documents.”

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  1. Trust me, Mr. Schiff, there are still bigly many other things you could subpoena the Oval Trailer cockroaches on…

    Make them so busy dealing with them, that they forget about blowing the world up.

    Please proceed accordingly.

  2. Avatar for tena tena says:

    I assume Schiff is saying this to try to put some pressure on the GOP. Otherwise I would think they’d have done what they thought necessary by now. Who is Chairman of that committee now?

  3. Avatar for tena tena says:

    I knew a golden shower was not enough to produce the terror I see in Trump’s eyes. I knew there was more and worse.

    This ought to be something when it breaks.

  4. MaybE LibTard AnTiFa cuCKs should finisH invEstigationS of HitlarY emaiL benghaZi seVerS aNd thE many murDers sHe diD!

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