Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page to testify before congressional committee on Friday

Make sure to let us know what you think... we now have comments turned ON below the article!

Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page was subpoenaed to appear before congressional committees on Wednesday to testify about her role in the bureau’s investigations on Hillary Clinton’s email server and alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia — but Page defied that subpoena and refused to appear as requested.

Congressional leaders suggested that Page could be held in contempt of Congress for her defiance after she failed to appear, and it appears that threat carried some weight, as Page finally agreed to appear on Friday for a closed-door hearing on Capitol Hill, with a follow-up hearing scheduled for Monday.

“Long overdue”

According to The Washington Times, Page’s attorney, Amy Jefress, had sought to excuse her client’s refusal to appear Wednesday on the basis of Page’s supposed inability to adequately review certain documents that would be relevant to her questioning and testimony.

It would seem that Page either got the chance to finally review those relevant documents, or simply decided she’d rather take her chances at the hearing without reviewing them in order to avoid the potential contempt charge.

House Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) was pleased at the development and stated that her appearance before his committee was “long overdue.”

“We have sought her testimony for seven months, ultimately resulting in a subpoena demanding her presence,” Goodlatte said.

He added: “Lisa Page is a key witness in our investigation and we need to hear from her about her role related to certain decisions made by the Department and Bureau.”

A joint affair

The closed-door session will likely be a joint affair between the Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Trey Gowdy.

Both committees have recently delved into the evidence of partisan bias among senior members of the FBI and Department of Justice, and how that bias may have impacted their decision-making with regard to major investigations, like those over Clinton’s emails and alleged Trump-Russia collusion.

Both committees held a joint hearing on Thursday, during which Page’s colleague and reported extra-marital lover, FBI agent Peter Strzok, was grilled for hours about his obvious anti-Trump bias that was clearly expressed in a number of text messages sent back-and-forth with Page throughout 2016 and 2017.

[show_poll poll_id=604]

It is unclear exactly how the closed-door session with Page and the congressional committees will proceed, and it remains unknown whether Page will prove cooperative or combative toward the congressional investigators seeking to hold executive branch agencies accountable.

Hopefully, Page will cooperate and answer the questions posed to her by the joint panel so they can move along with their investigations and get closer to an ultimate conclusion in the matter.

977 Responses

  1. Great beat ! I would like to apprentice whilst you amend your site, how could i subscribe for a blog web site? The account helped me a appropriate deal. I have been tiny bit familiar of this your broadcast provided brilliant clear concept

  2. I have to express some appreciation to this writer just for rescuing me from this type of difficulty. Because of exploring through the world-wide-web and finding notions that were not helpful, I thought my life was done. Living minus the approaches to the issues you have resolved through your entire posting is a serious case, and those that could have in a wrong way affected my career if I had not discovered your site. Your own personal know-how and kindness in controlling the whole lot was valuable. I am not sure what I would have done if I hadn’t encountered such a step like this. I’m able to at this time look ahead to my future. Thank you very much for the impressive and result oriented help. I won’t think twice to refer your web blog to any individual who should receive tips on this problem.

  3. you are really a good webmaster. The web site loading speed is incredible. It seems that you are doing any unique trick. Moreover, The contents are masterwork. you’ve done a wonderful activity on this subject!

  4. Somebody essentially help to make critically articles I would state. This is the first time I frequented your website page and to this point? I amazed with the research you made to make this particular post extraordinary. Wonderful activity!

  5. hi!,I like your writing so so much! percentage we keep up a correspondence extra about your article on AOL? I require an expert on this area to unravel my problem. Maybe that’s you! Having a look forward to see you.

  6. Hey there are using WordPress for your site platform? I’m new to the blog world but I’m trying to get started and set up my own. Do you require any html coding expertise to make your own blog? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  7. With havin so much content do you ever run into any problems of plagorism or copyright infringement? My website has a lot of unique content I’ve either created myself or outsourced but it seems a lot of it is popping it up all over the internet without my agreement. Do you know any ways to help reduce content from being ripped off? I’d really appreciate it.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Popular