A day before Robert Mueller's eagerly anticipated congressional testimony, ...
WASHINGTON - A day before Robert Mueller’s eagerly anticipated congressional testimony, a senior Democratic U.S. lawmaker on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump’s Justice Department of arrogance in instructing the former special counsel to limit the scope of his remarks and said it lacked the authority for such a directive.
Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer wrote in a letter to Mueller on Monday that the former FBI director’s testimony must remain within the boundaries of the 448-page special counsel investigative report the department released in redacted form on April 18. “He doesn’t work for them. And that letter asks things that are beyond the power of the agency to ask even if he still worked for them,” Nadler said in a CNN interview.“I think it’s incredibly arrogant of the department to try to instruct him in what to say,” Nadler added. “It’s part of the ongoing cover-up by the administration to keep information away from the American people.”
“What a disgrace to our system. Never heard of this before. VERY UNFAIR, SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED. A rigged Witch Hunt!,” he said.Earlier on Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee’s top Republican, Doug Collins, raised the possibility that Zebley could testify under oath.Both Mueller and Zebley joined the law firm WilmerHale in 2014 after leaving the FBI, and Zebley also previously worked for Mueller doing speechwriting, according to his ethics form filed with the Justice Department.
The Trump administration previously instructed other former officials not to cooperate with some other congressional investigations.
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