Senate Intel Committee lays claim to Trump-Russia documents at a dozen government agencies
Over the weekend we brought you the news that the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee had secretly and urgently met with FBI Director James Comey in the Senate basement on Friday afternoon, and that after the meeting, one democrat on the committee had referred to a plan to secure the evidence relating to Donald Trump and Russia. Today it turns out that plan is much more comprehensive and wide in scope than had been previously known, and points to just how deep the Trump-Russia scandal now extends.
The democrats and the republicans on the committee had emerged from their Comey meeting with nothing to say about what transpired, suggesting that it was just that serious in nature. And the democrats took a pass on their usual pattern of publicly nudging Comey and the GOP to take Trump-Russia more seriously, suggesting that the democrats are now finally getting what they’ve wanted. The only comment of note that was made after the meeting came from democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, as CNN reported that he had said the Trump-Russia evidence was being secured so the White House couldn’t destroy it. But now a new report reveals that the evidence lockdown has spread far and wide.
The latest from MSNBC is a report that the Senate Intelligence Committee has now informed more than a dozen government agencies that they must secure documents relating to the Trump-Russia investigation and are not allowed to destroy them. This would presumably put any Trump loyalist who attempts to destroy evidence in contempt of Congress, making it more difficult for Trump to cover his tracks.
This also suggests that evidence of Donald Trump’s collusion with Russia is so prevalent that it’s everywhere, spread across numerous federal agencies, and that the Senate Intel Committee is now pursuing the Trump-Russia investigation as thoroughly as Trump’s detractors had been hoping. Contribute to Palmer Report
