Schiff: You set the precedent, we're going to follow it

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Representative Adam Schiff, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has said he will subpoena Robert Mueller to testify before his panel and sue the administration if that's what it takes to make public Mueller's report on his investigation into possible Russian involvement in the 2016 election.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff said Sunday that they were also willing to subpoena the report if Attorney General Bill Barr doesn't sufficiently disclose its contents.

"We will obviously subpoena the report. We will bring Bob Mueller in to testify before Congress. We will take it to court if necessary," Schiff told ABC's George Stephanopoulos. "And in the end, I think the department understands they're going to have to make this public."
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"We are going to get to the bottom of this, we are going to share this information with the public, and if the President is serious about all of his claims of exoneration, then he should welcome the publication of this report," he added.​

Schiff also said he is willing to subpoena the entire report if Attorney General William Barr doesn't sufficiently disclose the contents. In past statements, Barr has said he wants to be as transparent as possible when it comes to the report, "consistent with the rules and the law." Barr has also said the Justice Department avoids "derogatory" information about uncharged individuals.

Schiff responded by point blank saying:

"The department has violated that policy repeatedly, and extendedly -- to a great extent over the last two years," Schiff said. "I have had this conversation with Rod Rosenstein and others on down at the Justice Department as they turned over thousands and thousands of pages of discovery in the Clinton e-mail investigation and there was no indictment in that investigation, that this was a new precedent they were setting and they were going to have to live by this precedent whether it was a Congress controlled by the Democrats or Republicans. "​

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/24/politics/schiff-subpoena-mueller-report/index.html

 

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Top Democrat will be watching Attorney General William Barr to see if he were ‘to try to bury any part of this report’

24 Feb 2019

“We will take it to court if necessary,” Schiff said. “If he were to try to withhold, to try to bury any part of this report, that will be his legacy and it will be a tarnished legacy. So I think there’ll be immense pressure not only on the department, but on the attorney general to be forthcoming.”

“Bill Barr has committed in his testimony to making as much of the report public as he can. And the regulations allow him to make it all. We’re going to insist on it becoming public,” Schiff said.

“There’s no other way to get the information that was seized except through the department, and we can’t tell the country fully what happened without it.”


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ller-testify-capitol-hill-trump-russia-report