WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein today requested follow-up briefings from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe on matters the former Director committed the FBI to providing the committee. 

Grassley and Feinstein also requested that Rosenstein, McCabe or both provide the full membership of the Senate Judiciary Committee a briefing on the Russia investigation similar to the briefing Grassley and Feinstein received from then-Director Comey on March 15.  As the committee of jurisdiction over both the FBI and the Department of Justice, it is important that members of the committee have an understanding of the FBI’s investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election.  

The committee leaders requested that the FBI and Justice Department call to set dates for the briefings by 5 p.m. today.

Full text of the letter follows.

May 12, 2017

VIA ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION

The Honorable Rod J. Rosenstein

Deputy Attorney General

U.S. Department of Justice

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20530

The Honorable Andrew McCabe

Acting Director

Federal Bureau of Investigation

935 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20535

Dear Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and Acting Director McCabe:

On Wednesday, May 3, 2017, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing titled, Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  At the hearing, there were several matters discussed that require follow-up briefings for the Committee that the former Director committed the Bureau to providing.

In addition, on March 15, 2017, both of us received a briefing from former FBI Director Comey about the FBI’s investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election.  We request that Mr. Rosenstein and/or Mr. McCabe, along with others who have firsthand knowledge of that briefing, provide a similar briefing to the rest of the Committee.  Reportedly, the Select Committee on Intelligence received a briefing from Mr. Rosenstein on this yesterday.  As the oversight committee of the FBI, it is important that the members of this Committee receive the same information.

Please contact Patrick Davis of Chairman Grassley’s Committee staff at (202) 224-5225 and Heather Sawyer of Ranking Member Feinstein’s staff at (202) 224-7703 by 5:00 p.m. today to schedule the briefings.  Thank you for your immediate attention to these important matters.

                                                            Sincerely,

 

Charles E. Grassley                             Dianne Feinstein

Chairman                                            Ranking Member

Committee on the Judiciary               Committee on the Judiciary

 

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