{"id":54330,"date":"2017-12-12T05:06:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T05:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=54330"},"modified":"2017-12-12T05:06:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T05:06:05","slug":"house-democrats-ask-justice-department-to-provide-evidence-that-fbi-had-political-bias-against-hillary-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/house-democrats-ask-justice-department-to-provide-evidence-that-fbi-had-political-bias-against-hillary-clinton.html","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats ask Justice Department to provide evidence that FBI had political bias against Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">House Democrats ask Justice Department to provide evidence that FBI had political bias against Hillary Clinton<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">House Democrats have asked the Department of Justice to provide them with evidence showing the FBI had political bias against Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), senior Democrats on the Judiciary and Oversight committees, submitted a letter to DOJ officials on Monday requesting they hand over material about possible FBI leaks during the agency\u2019s investigation into Clinton&#8217;s use of a private email server.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cOur committees are now engaged in an investigation of allegations of politically-motivated misconduct at the FBI,\u201d the letter directed toward Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein read. \u201cWe have had similar concerns for some time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cThe facts point to a coordinated effort by some in the FBI to change the course of the Clinton investigation by leaking sensitive information to the public, and by threatening to leak additional information after the investigation was closed,\u201d the Democrats wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">They also asked whether \u201cTrue Pundit,\u201d which they described as a \u201cfringe conspiracy website,\u201d had any connections to the Clinton investigation, former FBI agents, WikiLeaks or the Russian government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">True Pundit, citing government sources, published several stories claiming the FBI didn\u2019t charge Clinton because the agency favored her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The letter comes before Rosenstein is scheduled to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. The Democrats demanded the DOJ comply with their requests by Dec. 21.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/dems-doj-evidence-fbi-clinton-bias-article-1.3692384<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/house-democrats-ask-justice-department-to-provide-evidence-that-fbi-had-political-bias-against-hillary-clinton.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats ask Justice Department to provide evidence that FBI had political bias against Hillary Clinton House Democrats have asked the Department of Justice to provide them with evidence showing the FBI had political bias against Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign. 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