GOP Senator Slams DOJ Legal Opinion As 'Nonsense' That 'Floods The Swamp'

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LBN thread: 'This is nonsense': Iowa GOP senator tears into Trump White House for trying to block info requests

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Source: Huffington Post

POLITICS 06/09/2017 01:27 pm ET

GOP Senator Slams DOJ Legal Opinion As ‘Nonsense’ That ‘Floods The Swamp’

Charles Grassley’s letter is another sign of Republicans’ growing
frustration with Trump.

By Christina Wilkie , Ryan J. Reilly

WASHINGTON ― Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a scathing letter this week to President Donald Trump, arguing that the Office of Legal Counsel is “flooding the swamp.”

“You are being ill-served and ill-advised,” the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman wrote, adding that the Department of Justice office had “utterly failed to live up to its own standards.”

Grassley’s letter was prompted by a May 1 memo from the OLC to other federal agencies, instructing them to effectively ignore any requests from Congress that do not come from chairs of committees or subcommittees. Requests from other individual members of Congress “do not trigger any obligation to accommodate congressional needs and are not legally enforceable,” the memo stated. (Since both houses of Congress are currently controlled by the GOP, that means don’t answer any questions from Democrats as well as most Republicans.)

The memo, signed by acting Assistant Attorney General Curtis Gannon, claimed that it was a “longstanding policy” for government agencies to accommodate “congressional requests for information only when those requests come from a committee, subcommittee, or chairman authorized to conduct oversight.”

“This is nonsense,” Grassley wrote. “For OLC to so fundamentally misunderstand and misstate such a simple fact exposes its shocking lack of professionalism and objectivity,” he told the president.

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[brush]

1. The trump admin. is amateur hour in practice.

[LOL Lib]

2. Wow!

That's will leave a mark on fragile Donnie's ego.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. The Trump family are the worst group of human beings

who ever lived who didnt personally shoot or kill people, that we know of.

To support them makes you equally the worst human being alive.

All supporters of Trump also by default support the Russian oligarchy. Trump supporters need to start packing their personal belongings, Putin doesn't allow land ownership by peasants and you are all peasants. Some of your personal belongings will also be taken from you, but you can be CERTAIN if you own land, it will be taken.


So they need to be prepared to move out of their home if it is on land they claim to own. Because as of a few months from now, you dont own that land.

[chillfactor]

4. WOW!

even Grassley is upset? Not good for the orange one's administration.

[cos dem]

5. OK, Chuckie, time to put up or shut up.

You can indicate how serious you are about this with action, not words. Indicate that any request from any member of congress (R or D) will automatically be endorsed and requested by leadership, including committee chairs. Even though this should not be necessary, due to the illegitimacy of the OLC swamp memo, this will effectively accomplish the same thing.