House Judiciary Committee member Jim Jordan (R-OH) says he's gotten a commitment from committee chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) to issue subpoenas for several key officials at the FBI and Justice Department implicated in disturbing revelations of political bias against President Donald Trump.



Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

House and Senate committees have turned their focus in recent weeks to Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, counterintelligence investigator Peter Strzok, FBI attorney Lisa Page, former associate deputy attorney general Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie - who worked for Fusion GPS, the firm behind the "Trump-Russia" dossier and several other concurrent campaigns to smear Donald Trump in an effort funded in large part by Hillary Clinton and the DNC.



Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr

"Chairman Goodlatte has told us he is going to subpoena those individuals," said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), while speaking to a Fox panel on' "Justice with Judge Jeanine (longer clip here)."

FIREWORKS! ???? GOP Rep. Jim Jordan reveals the House Judiciary Committee will subpoena Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bruce and Nellie Ohr pic.twitter.com/PO8o6nsI0k — Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) December 17, 2017

GOP lawmakers have honed in on highly troublesome revelations over the last several weeks which paint a clear picture of a highly politicized FBI actively assisting Hillary Clinton as candidate for president, while using an unproven dossier which relied on the cooperation of Kremlin officials to smear then-candidate Donald Trump.

Of recent interest to investigators is a trove of around 10,000 text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok to his mistress, FBI attorney Lisa Page showing extreme bias against then-candidate Trump, while both of them were actively engaged in the Clinton email investigation and the Trump-Russia investigation. One text message in particular turned heads, in which Strzok referenced an "insurance policy" in case Trump were to be elected. Strzok wrote to Page: "I want to believe the path you threw out to consideration in Andy's office -- that there's no way he gets elected -- but I'm afraid we can't take that risk." It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40...."

In a Thursday letter released by Senate Homeland Security and Govt. Affairs chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI), it was revealed that the FBI went far beyond what was previously known in regards to editing the Clinton exoneration statement. Under the lead of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, drafts of Clinton's exoneration were passed around the office and edited to shift the conclusion from criminal conduct to "extreme carelessness."

GOP lawmakers also claim the FBI launched its investigation into Russian collusion based on the 34-page dossier created by opposition research firm Fusion GPS - which hired the CIA wife of a senior DOJ official to assist in digging up damaging information on 5then-candidate Trump.

A report last Monday by Fox News revealed that Nellie Ohr, the wife of recently demoted DOJ official Bruce Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS - the firm behind the Trump-Russia dossier. It was also later uncovered by internet sleuths that Nellie Ohr represented the CIA's "Open Source Works" group at a 2010 working group on organized crime, which she participated in along with her husband Bruce and Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS.

Meanwhile, nervous Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are growing increasingly nervous that the Mueller probe and the current Russian interference investigations in the Senate and the House will be shut down - which Trump Attorney Ty Cobb refuted in a statement to Politico, telling them "As the White House has repeatedly and emphatically said for months, there is no consideration at the White House of terminating the special counsel."

And with word now that top FBI and DOJ officials are about to be slapped with subpoenas, shutting down the investigations now would deprive the American public of quite the show as the noose grows ever tighter.

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