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Of course they asked.  So they could immediately leak it to Trump.
The whole point of Congress' power to investigation is for legislative purposes. There's no legislative reason to get involved in an on-going criminal investigation except to try and obstruct it. >


Jordan spokesperson Russell Dye responded to Monday’s letter by saying, “It’s concerning, to say the least, that the Department is more interested in playing politics than cooperating.”

Yeah, I did a double take when I read this line. Like wait what, the DOJ is investigating, doing their job, while Gym’s time is mostly spent doing political theater. Not even playing politics or doing his job. Just political theater and sabotaging the functioning of the US government. >


It’s concerning, to say the least, that [insert name here] is more interested in playing politics than cooperating.

It's basically a conservative madlib. They used the same on Obama all the time whenever he didn't roll over and do what they demanded.
For half a decade, any request that the Tea Party get serious and attempt to govern was "playing politics"; any fallout as a result of Republican shenanigans was "a failure of leadership."
I don't imagine they're going to come up with any new material over the next two years, either. >

That's funny because they didn't ask to see anything from trump's special counsel probe.
Maybe they just forgot.