Justice Department willing to hand over counterintelligence if Schiff backs off 'enforcement action'

[spanone]

Dear Mr. Schiff, do not bargain with the devil.

(CNN)The Justice Department is trying to stave off an "enforcement action" against Attorney General William Barr this week, making a rare offer to have the House Intelligence Committee review materials from special counsel Robert Mueller's report if House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff agrees to back down.

Last week Schiff said that he would hold a business meeting Wednesday to take an unspecified action against the Justice Department for not providing the committee documents related to Volume I of Mueller's report on links between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

The Justice Department had previously offered to show all committee members a less redacted version of the Mueller report, but now says it's continuing to review the initial tranche of 12 categories of documents Schiff wants, and will make them available "in relatively short order," according to a letter obtained by CNN.

"The Department has already begun the process of identifying, locating and reviewing the materials potentially responsive to the categories of documents," Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote Tuesday, "a process that will not continue should the Committee take the unnecessary and unproductive step of moving to hold the Attorney General in contempt."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/21/politics/justice-department-doj-counterintelligence-adam-schiff/index.html

[Wounded Bear]

1. So is it "Be nice to me or I won't play?" or something...

Hmmm, perhaps they should respond to Congress's requests and they won't turn into demands.

And yeah, Barr & Co are hardly worthy of any trust or respect.

[spanone]

2. In other words, they are witholding material so they can use it to bribe the Intel Committee

bullshit

This is material the House Intel committee should already have. No deals with barr.

[uponit7771]

10. +1

[Mme. Defarge]

3. Non!!!

Absolument pas!!!

[ehrnst]

4. This is how one gets thugs to cooperate. Sometimes you have to plea to get them to spill.

No one gives up something really good without asking for something in return.

It all depends on how good that something is. Schiff will decide.

[marble falls]

5. Since when do the "indicted" get to negotiate what evidence they will release and how it'll ...

be used?

[Chin music]

11. +1

[Bayard]

6. I'd like to know

How is this "enforcement action" more feared than the other contempt outcome? Whatever it is, let's keep doing it.

[lagomorph777]

8. +1 "Whatever it is, let's keep doing it" - seems Billbarr is a wee bit nervous.

Please make him more nervous.

[spanone]

12. Yes, good observation. Why does this scare them enough to want to deal?

[sdfernando]

7. Lucy is holding the football...

...and promising that this time she will not snatch it away!

Schiff is too smart to fall for that shit!

[eleny]

9. Mail them a copy opf the Constitution and let them talk to the hand

No deals with the devil.

[lindysalsagal]

13. NO DEALS!

You're the effing congress!