Obama appointee Sally Yates was acting attorney general under President Trump for just 10 days — from Jan. 20, 2017 until Jan. 30, 2017 — but by any measure they were consequential days. Even now, two issues from Yates' brief tenure are still of interest to congressional investigators. One was the series of events that led Yates, in charge of the Justice Department, to reject the president's executive order temporarily suspending the admittance into the United States of people from some Muslim nations. The second is Yates' role in the FBI's questioning, apparently on dubious premises, the president's national security adviser, Michael Flynn, four days into the new administration — questioning that ultimately led to Flynn's guilty plea in the Trump-Russia investigation.
Both are matters of great public significance and interest — and on both, the Justice Department is refusing to allow the Senate Judiciary Committee access to documents from Yates' time in office.
Over a year and a half has passed since Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley wrote to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking for "all emails to, from, copying, or blind-copying Ms. Yates from Jan. 20, 2017, through Jan. 31, 2017." Grassley also asked for all of Yates' other correspondence from that period, plus records of her calls and meetings.
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Why in the hell would McCains replacement have to please the McCain family of all things? Are they the only ones he represented was the interests and desires of his family?
ReplyDeleteSessions is the one holding up those Emails? No wonder the President is POed.
ReplyDeleteThey all learned from Hillary how to "lose" documents from the office, like in a box under the dining room table at home, put there by the "movers".
ReplyDeleteWe have to obey court orders and they don't? They are being given time to change the evidence like they did with hillary. If it had been us they would have busted in our doors and took our computer. Her, they let her know they wanted it, so she would destroy the evidence.
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