Just in: GOP senator requests Obama, Clinton emails

[Dennis Donovan]

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/468534-gop-senator-requests-obama-clinton-emails

BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 11/01/19 12:00 PM EDT

A Senate GOP chairman is requesting the National Archives hand over any emails between former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who chairs the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, sent a letter this week to archivist David Ferriero after the Justice Department denied his request for the emails.

Johnson previously requested that the Justice Department hand over any emails Clinton sent to Obama from a "territory of a sophisticated adversary." But DOJ said they could not share any emails because they involved other executive branches.
Johnson, in his letter to Ferriero, pointed to a text message from Peter Strzok, a former FBI official who was fired for anti-Trump texts, that said he had the "POTUS-HRC emails."

"Based on this communication, it appears that multiple emails exist between Secretary Clinton and President Obama. Given that DOJ acknowledged that they 'are not in a position' to produce emails to the Committee that contain 'equities of other executive branch entities,' I ask that, pursuant to the Presidential Records Act, you please provide all email communications," Johnson wrote in the letter.

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[gordianot]

1. Beating dead horses to dust.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Yup...

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. My line is any indictment by BARR of any Democrat...that is go time

[dem4decades]

4. I thought he had a Ukraine problem? Giving himself cover?

[Dennis Donovan]

7. Totally - this is a weak deflection. n/t

[BlueIdaho]

5. Pushing the crazy...

Looks like the GOP is going to be burning the midnight oil trying to convince America the sky is green, the grass is purple, and the real crime was some crazy fucked up conspiracy theory.

[RhodeIslandOne]

6. What a useless piece of shit

Another Putin lackey who owes his seat to Vlad.

[imanamerican63]

8. They are out of reaches!

They can't find the truth, so they reach for nothing only find nothing, than come up empty!



I did not make sense, but do they!

[gratuitous]

9. A letter request? Ignore it

A subpoena? Ignore it. As we've seen, there is no obligation for Republicans to respond to requests for documents or even subpoenas for documents. Sen. Johnson can go jump in the lake.

[RockRaven]

10. Desperate to create any distraction or false equivalence that the poorly informed might buy

Fucking crooks.

[ScratchCat]

11. I'm scratching my head here

Barr's DOJ denied the request. What on earth does Johnson think they would find in there that Barr's DOJ can't turn into an issue?

[Dennis Donovan]

12. They might not have them.

Guessing the Obama Library (essentially the National Archives) has them?

[ScratchCat]

16. I have no idea about that

But the way I see it is, if there was "something there", Barr would already have these emails. Isn't there some review of the "Clinton email investigation" already going on? If DOJ doesn't have these, they would have requested them from whoever does already. The fact that DOJ denied the request with that reason is interesting, when Barr could have just directed them to turn them over. It means there is either nothing there, or somebody has somehow kept these away from Barr(which doesn't sound plausible).

[Dennis Donovan]

17. That card would've been pulled before or around the time the impeachment inquiry started

Obviously, there's no "there" there.

[crickets]

13. If the situation weren't so dire, this would be comical. nt

[Skidmore]

14. Deflection from this

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/10/29/ron-johnson-and-ukraine-senator-not-recuse-himself/2498348001/

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/28/ron-johnson-met-ukrainian-diplomat-two-weeks-before-trump-call/3942618002/



https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-johnson-ally-of-trump-and-ukraine-surfaces-in-crucial-episodes-in-the-saga/2019/10/28/40b9e44c-f684-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html

[Dennis Donovan]

15. We have a winner!

[dalton99a]

23. +1

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. and GW's lost 22 million? how about Ivanka's?

The George W. Bush White House 'Lost' 22 Million Emails

Ivanka's emails: sins of the daughter threaten to hit Trump where it hurts

[SWBTATTReg]

19. Why don't these a&&holes do some governing for once and quit screwing around on non issues ...

such as this? They obviously have no interest in truly governing this country and seem to prove it on a daily basis. What's going to be next w/ these people? We're going to be issued papers that we must carry at all times, and every action/thing we do, is going to be detailed so if a repub-a-thug stops us on the street, and asks to see our papers, they'll see what we've done (or not done)?

These thugs need to be stopped cold in their tracks and do their damn job they were truly elected for, not chase after will of the wisp rumors, fake charges, etc.

[atreides1]

30. Simple

They have no interest in governing...they want to rule!!!

[KPN]

20. It's all they've got ... fishing expeditions and drama.

[wiggs]

21. What are the odds Trump and/or Giuliani asked Johnson to do this? nt

[lagomorph777]

31. Johnson's involvment in the Ukraine scandal is why he's doing the "But her emails!" crap.

See post above.

[lpbk2713]

22. Groooaaan

They embarrass themselves if that's the best they can do.

[struggle4progress]

24. "I recently learned that Clinton had been Secretary of State under Obama, and naturally

I have been very concerned ever since! Why wasn't I told about this earlier? Why all the secrecy? Was Obama involved in the Whitewater cover-up? Did he help Clinton plan the murder of Jeff Epstein? We need answers!"

[JHB]

27. Can they work in Vince Foster too? That'll give me a BINGO on my RWNJ conspiracy card!

[Poiuyt]

25. I'm ashamed of my senator. Ashamed, I say!

[samnsara]

26. if this is all they have then im not worried...

[choie]

28. They want to impeach Obama retroactively?

Assholes

[sinkingfeeling]

29. Let him subpoena them.

[spanone]

32. mother fuckers.