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Investigators ask White House for details on FBI director firing, Flynn ouster - NYT

 

Then national security adviser General Michael Flynn delivers a statement daily briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 1, 2017. Picture taken February 1, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The special counsel investigating Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election has asked the White House for documents on a range of subjects including President Donald Trump's firing of the FBI director and his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.

 

The Times reported that special counsel Robert Mueller's office had sent the White House a document outlining 13 areas of interest about which investigators were seeking additional documentation.

 

Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, declined a request by Reuters to comment on the matter. Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer handling requests from Mueller's office, told Reuters, "Out of respect for the special counsel and its process, the White House does not comment on exchanges between the special counsel and the White House."

 

"The White House remains committed to cooperate fully with the special counsel," Cobb said.

 

The subjects in the request by Mueller's office included the ouster of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and the firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, the Times reported.

 

According to the report, the special counsel has also asked for documents on how the White House responded to questions about a June 2016 meeting involving Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., and a Russian lawyer who had offered to provide damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

 

The 2016 meeting was also attended by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his former campaign manager Paul Manafort.

 

Mueller’s investigation and two congressional panels are looking into conclusions by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia worked to tilt last November’s election in Republican Trump’s favour. Moscow has repeatedly denied any meddling in the election and Trump has denied any collusion by his campaign.

 

(Reporting by David Alexander and Karen Freifeld; Editing by Caren Bohan, Toni Reinhold)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-09-21

[mrwebb8825]

On 9/21/2017 at 8:32 AM, webfact said:

The Times reported that special counsel Robert Mueller's office had sent the White House a document outlining 13 areas of interest about which investigators were seeking additional documentation.

Thank GOD special counsel Mueller and both congressional panels are filtering everything through the Times and Reuters so as to not taint or prejudice any sort of finding or outcomes or unduly sway public opinion.

[ilostmypassword]

2 hours ago, mrwebb8825 said:

Thank GOD special counsel Mueller and both congressional panels are filtering everything through the Times and Reuters so as to not taint or prejudice any sort of finding or outcomes or unduly sway public opinion.

Next thing you know they'll be chanting "Lock him up, Lock him up." Nah, who out there could sink that low?

[boomerangutang]

On 9/23/2017 at 5:04 PM, mrwebb8825 said:

Thank GOD special counsel Mueller and both congressional panels are filtering everything through the Times and Reuters so as to not taint or prejudice any sort of finding or outcomes or unduly sway public opinion.

Mueller's office are not publicity hounds.  WH folks are.  Mueller's team is doing all they can to try and keep the investigation professional.  WH dirty tricksters are doing all they can to upset the apple cart.

[boomerangutang]

Note:   Flynn is as guilty (or more so) of breaking laws as Manafort, but Manafort is getting 95% of the publicity at this time.  Even in the OP, the topic is Mueller's team looking at what the WH has on Flynn, rather than what Flynn has on same meetings.   The reason is simple:  Flynn must be singing like a canary.  In contrast, Manafort appears to be hanging tough.  Both will go down, but Flynn will get a lighter sentence because he's coopertating with authorities.   

 

And both are relatively small fry.  That's how prosecutors work.  They start at the bottom and work up.  Future upper-level dominos which will surely fall:   Ivanka, Don Jr, Jared, and of course, Trump himself.    Lower-level dominos number in the 40's or 60's.  too many to list here.

 

One worrying facet, among many, is: because of the large range of law-breaking issues, the investigation will take many more months to conclude.  Each day it drags out, is another day Trump Sr can work to debilitate the USA.  These are sad times for America.