U.S. CapitolBy Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Top Congressional Democrats are urging the Justice Department to disclose documents that would reveal evidence that the FBI is engaged in “political bias or personal animus.”
The move comes as Republicans try to discredit the special counsel investigation into possible collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the presidential election.
In a letter to the Justice Department, senior Democrats on the Judiciary and Oversight committees are urging the DOJ to provide records about possible FBI leaks during the bureau’s probe of Clinton’s private email server.
“Our committees are now engaged in an investigation of allegations of politically-motivated misconduct at the FBI,” the letter reads. “We have had similar concerns for some time.”
The Democrats continued: “The 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.”
The committee members also are requesting documents that would reveal whether the feds shared any information about the Clinton probe with Trump’s campaign.
