House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes will refuse to meet with Justice Department officials until they hand over documents connected to an FBI source who spoke with Trump campaign aides in 2016 about Russian interference in the election, The Hill reported on Sunday.
The California Republican accused officials in the Department of Justice of leaking the information after he and South Carolina GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy did not agree to an offer from DOJ officials to answer the congressmen’s questions in a briefing on Friday.
Earlier this month, Nunes had threated DOJ officials with contempt of Congress if they did not release documents connected to the source that he has subpoenaed, CNN reported.
Following that threat, DOJ officials briefed Nunes and Gowdy a few weeks ago.
The congressmen called that a "productive discussion," writing that "The officials committed to holding further discussions of these matters, and we look forward to continuing our dialogue next week to satisfy the Committee's request," according to the Washington Examiner.
But the controversy became more heated after that as reports circulated that that the FBI source may have been a plant to spy on the Trump campaign for investigators.
The DOJ then offered to brief the congressmen again on Friday since not all their questions were answered, but Nunes and Gowdy refused.
"Now if you look at what happened on Friday night, probably the mother of all leaks, of all time, to two major newspapers, that came out Friday night. Now, had Mr. Gowdy and I went to that meeting, you can bet they would have tried to pin that on us," Nunes told Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures."
President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he will demand the Justice Department investigate if the FBI sent a spy into his presidential campaign for political reasons.
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