FBI/GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A small group of House Republicans is urging President Donald Trump to declassify documents related to the beginning of the Justice Department’s Russia investigation. Trump has already signaled that he may do so, tweeting on Thursday [9-6-18] that there may be ‘Declassification to find Additional Corruption.’ He did not elaborate, but has repeatedly criticized the Russia investigation and called it a ‘witch hunt.’ The Republican lawmakers, several of them staunch Trump allies, are asking the president to take the unusual step of fully declassifying a secret wiretap application from 2016 for one-time Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The FBI was investigating Page’s ties to Russia, but Trump and his allies have insisted that the wiretap was a way to spy on his campaign. The lawmakers are also asking Trump to declassify documents related to Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, who they say had inappropriate contacts with a former British spy who compiled a dossier on Trump’s ties to Russia. At a news conference Thursday, the Republicans pleaded directly with Trump to release the documents.”
-The Associated Press, “Republicans Ask Trump to Declassify Russia Probe Documents,” The New York Times online, September 6, 2018