GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “House Republicans on Thursday [6-28-18] mounted a multi-front effort to rebuke and embarrass the GOP-led Justice Department, hauling Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein before an ’emergency’ hearing of the Judiciary Committee just as the House voted to accuse him of flouting congressional document requests. Face-to-face with Rosenstein and FBI Director Chris Wray, Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte invoked the Church Committee — the 1975 investigation into federal surveillance abuses against figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. — and suggested history was repeating itself in the ongoing investigation into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia on its election interference efforts…Just as the House began voting on the resolution to rebuke Rosenstein, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) blasted Rosenstein, accusing him of ‘keeping information from Congress’ and prompting a sharp rebuttal from Rosenstein. ‘Your use of this to attack me personally is deeply wrong,’ Rosenstein said emphatically, noting that he’s one part of a large team working on congressional document requests, and rejecting the suggestion that he personally screened the information Congress had demanded.”
-Kyle Cheney, “House GOP rips Rosenstein to his face,” Politics, June 28, 2018 10:53 am