Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the Department flatout denied that those records had been provided to the House Intelligence Committee. That wasn't the truth. After my staff confronted the Department, we eventually received some documents. There is no reason for stonewalling; there is no reason for lack of cooperation--plain and simple. In that August 2018 letter, I asked for additional documents based on my equal access agreement with Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein. To date, the Department still hasn't provided a response. I later learned that the Justice Department has taken the position that Director Coats has prohibited them from sharing the requested records with the committee. Then, in addition to the outstanding records request, in May 2018, the Director of National Intelligence and the Justice Department provided a briefing in connection with the pending House Intelligence subpoena, to which no Senate Judiciary Committee member was invited. The Judiciary Committee's attempt to schedule an equivalent briefing has been ignored. The lack of cooperation, then, obviously, as any one of the 100 Senators would do--the bureaucracy, the faceless bureaucrats, are forcing our hand. Congressional oversight is a constitutional requirement. It seems that in every administration--Republican or Democratic--I am forced to remind them of that constitutional responsibility of oversight, and that responsibility cuts both ways.…”