Democrats to go forward with Barr contempt vote after DOJ's executive privilege threat
-- Attorney General William Barr threatened to ask President Donald Trump to invoke executive privilege to head off demands by the House Judiciary Committee for the full, unredacted report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Boyd said that Barr and the Justice Department had “repeatedly sought to accommodate the interests” of the committee over the Mueller investigation. Nadler, in a statement responding to Boyd’s letter, said: “Tonight, in the middle of good faith negotiations with the attorney general, the department abruptly announced that it would instead ask President Trump to invoke executive privilege on all of the materials subject to our subpoena.”
The House Intelligence Committee is also pursuing the unredacted Mueller report. The panel’s ranking Republican, Devin Nunes, joined Chairman Adam Schiff in threatening to subpoena the report if the Justice Department hasn’t complied with its request. Questioning McGahn took on additional importance since the former White House counsel provided Mueller a detailed account about Trump’s attempt to have the special counsel removed from his post. The White House gave McGahn permission to speak with Mueller.
Nadler added that “I fully expect the committee will hold Mr. McGahn in contempt if he fails to appear before the committee, unless the White House secures a court order directing otherwise.”
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