Republicans 'cherry-picked' Russia probe documents to quiz U.S. official: Democrats
Source: Reuters
AUGUST 31, 2018 / 3:56 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Jonathan Landay
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats on Friday accused Republicans of “cherry-picking” and leaking portions of text messages and emails between a U.S. law enforcement official and a former British spy who investigated then-businessman Donald Trump’s ties to the Russian government.
Two lawmakers made the charge in a letter to the Republican chairmen of the U.S. House of Representatives judiciary and government oversight panels, which on Tuesday questioned Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr about his ties with former MI6 officer Christopher Steele.
The letter was the latest salvo in a fight between the political parties as Republicans have criticized the propriety of the FBI’s probe of ties between Moscow and Trump aides and whether they coordinated during the 2016 U.S. election campaign.
The Democratic lawmakers said Republicans appeared to have violated House rules because they failed to share the communications between Ohr and Steele in 2016 and 2017 with the minority party. The materials were not among 800,000 pages of documents provided by the Justice Department to their panels, they said.
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