FBI chief said to have met US House speaker on Trump-Russia probe
Washington — Two top law enforcement officials met US House speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday to discuss demands by congressional supporters of President Donald Trump that the justice department hand over files relevant to investigations of possible Trump 2016 campaign ties to Russia, a source familiar with the meeting said. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Christopher Wray and deputy attorney-general Rod Rosenstein met Ryan, said AshLee Strong, a Ryan spokesperson who declined to comment on the subject of the meeting. A justice department spokesperson declined to comment. Reuters reported in September that the Republican-led House intelligence committee had issued subpoenas to Wray and Rosenstein demanding that they surrender their agencies’ files on former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, his "dossier" on suspected Trump team contacts with Russia and inquiries being made by the FBI and the justice department into the dossier’s contents. Officials said at...
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