© Getty ImagesHouse Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA)
told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo yesterday that
he wishes to see a "fourth bucket" of emails declassified, saying it would reveal evidence that the Department of Justice and FBI withheld information from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).Nunes said the first of three "buckets" were Russia-related documents which President Trump - after calling for their release -
had to backtrack on after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein intervened and suggested the Inspector General review them first.
"The new fourth bucket that we're asking to be declassified now is - for months we have been reviewing emails between FBI, and DOJ, and others that clearly show that they knew about information that should have been presented to the FISA court," he said. "So it is real evidence that people within the FBI withheld evidence from the FISA court."
Nunes said that even House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) requested that the DOJ release the emails. "Even though we know what's in those emails a lot of them are redacted so they're still refusing to give Congress - even in a classified setting - this information," he said.
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Republicans for months have pressed the Justice Department to turn over classified emails that show that the FBI "withheld evidence" from the federal court that authorized surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday.
California Rep. Devin Nunes, the Republican chairman of the Intelligence panel, said in an interview on Fox News that Republicans have recently added the documents to a list of records that they hope President Donald Trump will declassify.
Republicans have already called on Trump to declassify three other categories of documents: portions of the fourth and final FISA application against Page, FBI interview notes used in the Page surveillance warrant, and FBI interview notes with Bruce Ohr, the Justice Department official who was a backchannel to dossier author Christopher Steele.
Trump has recently said that he is revisiting whether to declassify the documents. He said on Nov. 7 he is "very seriously" considering releasing the records.
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