Two prominent GOP Senators, Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, have accused their Democratic colleagues of “selectively leaking” information from their joint investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine while his father was vice president.
Yahoo News reported last week that the Treasury Department had complied with Republicans who were asking for financial records on Biden, citing “a leading Democrat on one of the committees conducting the investigation.” The report quoted the Democrat as saying the evidence turned over to the Senate committees was “of questionable origin.”
“We have shared our ongoing investigation efforts with our Democrat ranking members as a courtesy and with the understanding that sensitive information would be treated appropriately and remain confidential,” Johnson and Grassley said in a statement. “It is disappointing that one or more of our colleagues would actively seek to undermine our legitimate oversight by selectively leaking information to the press.”
The Republican senators called the leaks “highly inappropriate” and emphasized that any responses from the Treasury Department to the senators’ queries would be “highly sensitive.”
Democrats contrasted the Trump administration’s responsiveness to the Senate probe with its complete stonewalling of last year’s House impeachment investigation, alleging hypocrisy.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who sits on the Finance Committee, told Yahoo News that the swift response from Treasury is a “blatant double standard” considering how the Trump administration responded — or rather, did not respond — to Democrats’ effort to obtain documents and witness testimony in his impeachment trial.
“The administration told House Democrats to go pound sand when their oversight authority was mandatory while voluntarily cooperating with the Senate Republicans’ sideshow at lightning speed,” a spokesman from Wyden told the website.
Grassley and Johnson said there was no double standard, as there was no implication of executive privilege in the documents on “suspicious financial transactions” that the Senate sought on Hunter Biden. Executive privilege is a procedural shield that protects the president from being forced to turn over information about his deliberations with advisors, particularly on foreign policy.
“In fact, Democrats have recently received productions from Treasury pursuant to their oversight requests,” the Republicans said. “If the administration were to claim privilege over requested material, as the Obama administration did in the ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ investigation, members of Congress can use other tools at their disposal – including the courts – to compel cooperation.”
These treasonous hypocrite libs(lying sack of Schiff) don’t know the meaning of the truth! They are at it again and just as mentally deranged as the rest of the Globalists NAZI Muslim Commie Liberal Demoncrats! Deep State, Pelosi, Waters, Schumer, Hollywood, Academia, Fake News, Swamp News and you know the rest!! Expose, Boycott, Sue, prosecute and bring to justice all these lying Fake News deep state treasonous Godless NAZI commie liberal demoncrats and RINOs (Mutt Romney, Susan Collins, Murkowski, Justice Roberts, Bolton and you know the rest of the traitors) post-haste,Patriots! Drain the rat infested swamp President Trump!
Now, now, be nice. This is how the Dems sort out multiple candidaes without ‘offending anyone’. They destroy themselves from within. 5 losses in a row for dems. American people realize all the fake and lies. American people want to Make America Grat Again. If the dems don’t, just get out of our way.
The house wants investigations into anything and everything the president does since they have no plan or policies to help Americans they want to investigate the President for firing vindman and others but there were crickets when Obama and Clinton gored everyone the hypocrites think Americans are stupid but the dems keep doubling or tripling down on stupid they are like the little boy who kept crying wolf thing is we are on to what they are going do we don’t care what the lying left has to say
Blame the DEMO DUMMIES for being the CARONA VIRUS INFECTION TO THE WORLD ??? !!
Collins and Murkowski did vote to not impeach. Only Romney did. But I find it insulting that they keep claiming they had not witnesses or documentation. They had 18 and 1of those the testimony wasn’t forwarded. Must have been damaging to them is my guess. They had over 25,000 documents. All Trump’s legal team said was to get proper warrants. They didn’t. Obama claimed more executive power than anyone but he wasn’t called out for any of his decisions. To say it was an unfair trial because there’s no witnesses they were right. Unfair for Trump. Scary that if this happens to the POTUS then I image we regular folks don’t have a chance. I hope everyone is seeing through all their lies. Pelosi and Schumer keep interviewing every time something bad comes out trying to cover their tracks. Takes them a few days too, to come up with a half way decent excuse. I hope people are seeing this and vote them out. Don’t reward their corruption.