GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MEULLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A pair of top Republican lawmakers met with senior officials at the Justice Department Thursday [5-10-18] in an attempt to resolve a standoff over GOP requests for classified information related to the special counsel’s investigation into Russian election meddling. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) and fellow committee member Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) spent about an hour with officials regarding Mr. Nunes’s subpoena for information the Justice Department has said would risk lives, damage relationships with partners around the world and compromise ongoing probes. Justice Department officials invited the lawmakers to see if there were other ways to accommodate the latest request…The episode was the latest in an unusual tug of war between a vocal group of Republican lawmakers and leaders of the Justice Department, whom they have accused of stonewalling requests for sensitive documents related to the department’s politically charged probes. These include investigations of any ties between Trump campaign associates and Russian electoral meddling and of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.”
-Sadie Gurman and Byron Tau, “GOP Lawmakers Meet With Justice Department Over Subpoena for Classified Information,” The Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2018 6:42 pm