Grassley, Feinstein Request Briefings from Rosenstein, McCabe
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee
Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein today requested
follow-up briefings from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Acting FBI
Director Andrew McCabe on matters the former Director committed the FBI to
providing the committee.
Grassley and Feinstein also
requested that Rosenstein, McCabe or both provide the full membership of the
Senate Judiciary Committee a briefing on the Russia investigation similar to
the briefing Grassley and Feinstein received from then-Director Comey on March
15. As the committee of jurisdiction over both the FBI and the Department of
Justice, it is important that members of the committee have an understanding of
the FBI’s investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The committee leaders requested
that the FBI and Justice Department call to set dates for the briefings by 5
p.m. today.
Full text of the letter
follows.
May 12, 2017
VIA
ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION
The
Honorable Rod J. Rosenstein
Deputy
Attorney General
U.S.
Department of Justice
950
Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington,
D.C. 20530
The
Honorable Andrew McCabe
Acting
Director
Federal
Bureau of Investigation
935
Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington,
D.C. 20535
Dear
Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and Acting Director McCabe:
On
Wednesday, May 3, 2017, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing titled, Oversight
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. At the hearing, there were several
matters discussed that require follow-up briefings for the Committee that the
former Director committed the Bureau to providing.
In
addition, on March 15, 2017, both of us received a briefing from former FBI
Director Comey about the FBI’s investigations of Russian interference in the
2016 election. We request that Mr. Rosenstein and/or Mr. McCabe, along with
others who have firsthand knowledge of that briefing, provide a similar
briefing to the rest of the Committee. Reportedly, the Select Committee on
Intelligence received a briefing from Mr. Rosenstein on this yesterday. As the
oversight committee of the FBI, it is important that the members of this
Committee receive the same information.
Please
contact Patrick Davis of Chairman Grassley’s Committee staff at (202) 224-5225
and Heather Sawyer of Ranking Member Feinstein’s staff at (202) 224-7703 by
5:00 p.m. today to schedule the briefings. Thank you for your immediate
attention to these important matters.
Sincerely,
Charles E. Grassley
Dianne Feinstein
Chairman Ranking
Member
Committee on the
Judiciary Committee on the Judiciary
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