‘Slew of Subpoenas’ Coming for State Department Officials, Nunes Warns

by Kathryn Blackhurst, Lifezette:

House Intel Committee chair blasts mainstream media for ‘ignoring’ questions for current, former top employees about anti-Trump Steele dossier

High-ranking State Department executives — those both current and former — will be “hauled into Congress” next week to “answer publicly” questions about the “salacious and unverified” anti-Trump Steele dossier, according to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) in an appearance on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

“A week ago we sent a letter with a questionnaire to high-ranking former Obama and current Trump officials, asking them 10 questions about when they knew about the dossier, when they knew the dossier was used, when they knew the dossier was used to get a warrant to spy on an American — all questions that the public has a right to know and that the Congress definitely has a right to know,” said Nunes, who is chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

“They have ’til Friday to respond to this questionnaire. And what’s alarming is, Laura, that the mainstream media — the Democratic-controlled mainstream media — is not reporting on this questionnaire,” Nunes continued. “So I guess they’ll be surprised when, you know, a week from today when we have to issue a slew of subpoenas if these people don’t answer.”

Former FBI Director James Comey told Congress last year that the dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele contained “salacious and unverified” allegations about President Donald Trump’s personal activities and business connections in Russia.

Nunes told Ingraham that “what happens here in the Beltway” is that current and former State Department officials mostly read The Washington Post and The New York Times and watch CNN and MSNBC. They ignore conservative outlets and those outlets outside the mainstream.

“And they think, well, just because Devin Nunes is being attacked and Devin Nunes is being called a Trump stooge and I’m being just constantly — it’s a character assassination — that somehow they’re not going to be subpoenaed and that they think the press is going to cover for them,” Nunes said.

“Well, I’ve got news for them — they are going to get subpoenaed, and they are going to answer publicly to all 10 questions in that questionnaire,” Nunes continued. “And the mainstream media can continue to ignore it all they want, but at some point the cameras will be on and all of these people will be hauled into Congress to answer the questions.”

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