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| − | *'''27 July.''' Bob Goodlatte, House Judiciary Committee Chairman and members write to Attn. Gen. Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attn. Gen. Rod Rosenstein to request appointment of a Special Counsel to | + | *'''27 July.''' FBI agent Peter Strzok, who played a key role in the Hillary Clinton email investigation and FBI Russia investigation, fired by Robert Mueller anti-Trump texts and other comments that favor Clinton with FBI lawyer Lisa Page.<ref>https://www.wired.com/story/robert-mueller-special-counsel-investigation-team/ </ref> Page, an expert in money-laundering, was fired about a month later. |
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| | 1.Investigate, consistent with appropriate regulations, the following questions, many of which were previously posed by this Committee and remain unanswered:<br> | | 1.Investigate, consistent with appropriate regulations, the following questions, many of which were previously posed by this Committee and remain unanswered:<br> |
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| | *In the raid, the FBI illegally seized a transcript of Manafort's closed door Congressional testimony, guarded by immunity agreements with Congress and attorney client privilege.<ref>http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/05/politics/russia-mueller-hill/index.html </ref> | | *In the raid, the FBI illegally seized a transcript of Manafort's closed door Congressional testimony, guarded by immunity agreements with Congress and attorney client privilege.<ref>http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/05/politics/russia-mueller-hill/index.html </ref> |
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| − | *'''July.''' FBI agent Peter Strzok, who played a key role in the Hillary Clinton email investigation and FBI Russia investigation, fired by Robert Mueller anti-Trump texts and other comments that appeared to favor Clinton with FBI lawyer Lisa Page.<ref>https://www.wired.com/story/robert-mueller-special-counsel-investigation-team/ </ref> Page, an expert in money-laundering, was fired about a month later.
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| | ===August 2017=== | | ===August 2017=== |