House GOP Quietly Ends Probe Into FBI’s 2016 Decisions Into Clinton Emails

A whole lot of nothing from the GOP.

Via Daily Mail:

House Republican say their investigation into the FBI’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s email server and the Trump campaign’s alleged Russian ties, which quietly wrapped up this week, uncovered concerns about its ‘impartiality’ – yet Democrats have blasted the probe as being little more than a distraction from Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Republicans have said since the election that they believe Justice officials were biased against President Trump when they started an investigation into his ties to Russia and cleared Clinton in a separate probe into her email use.

In a letter released Friday evening, less than a week before Republicans cede the House majority to Democrats, the chairmen of two House committees described what they said was the ‘seemingly disparate treatment’ between the two probes and called on the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate further.

House Judiciary Chairman Robert Goodlatte and Rep. Trey Gowdy, House Oversight and Government Reform chairman, both of whom are retiring next week, sent a letter to the Justice Department and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell saying they reviewed thousands of documents and conducted interviews that ‘revealed troubling facts which exacerbated our initial questions and concerns.’ […]

Republicans have repeatedly asked for a special counsel to look into the 2016 questions, but former Attorney General Jeff Sessions never granted their request. The department is now led by Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker, a Trump ally who has not weighed in on the issue.

The Republicans sent the letter not only to McConnell but to several other Republican Senate committee chairmen, including South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who will become chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Goodlatte and Gowdy wrote that ‘while Congress does not have the power to appoint a special counsel, Congress does have the power to continue to investigate. They said they believe ‘the facts uncovered thus far’ warrant continued oversight.

Goodlatte and Gowdy have also asked for the Justice Department release transcripts from their investigation. The committees sent the transcripts to the department last week so they could be reviewed for any classified information, but they have not been released.

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