Intelligence leaders are asking the FBI to turn over memos prepared by former Director James Comey. | Getty Senate Intelligence Committee leaders demand Comey memos

The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday asked the FBI to turn over memos prepared by former Director James Comey detailing conversations he had with the White House and Justice Department about the FBI’s Russia investigations.

Separately, four top members of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote separately to the FBI and to the White House seeking any documents that detail communications between the fired FBI director and Trump, as well as other paperwork on the matter stemming back to the Obama administration.


“We need all those memos,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in an interview. “We’re going to try to get not just the Comey memo as you heard in my letter, but all memos, all communications between everybody — Comey, and other people in the hierarchy — and throughout the organization, wherever we have to, and over a long period of time.”

The senators requesting the documents — Grassley and Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) — said they want the records by May 24. Grassley said late Wednesday that he also sent a letter to Comey, asking him to appear before the Judiciary Committee.

In the Intelligence Committee, Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) also sent a letter Wednesday to Comey asking that he testify before their panel in open and closed sessions. The senators had previously asked Comey to testify in closed session this Tuesday, but he declined.

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Their request follows a letter House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz sent the FBI on Tuesday asking for copies of memos documenting Comey's communications with President Donald Trump. “I have my subpoena pen ready,” the Utah Republican added on Twitter.

Lawmakers in both parties are demanding that Comey testify before Congress and that his memos be turned over after a New York Times report that Comey wrote in a memo that Trump asked him to shut down the FBI’s investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The Times also reported that Comey wrote memos detailing all his conversations with Trump.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has also invited Comey to testify before a Senate committee.