The Department of Justice won't allow the Senate Judiciary Committee to interview two top FBI officials, Carl Ghattas and James Rybicki, about the circumstances surrounding former FBI Director James Comey's dismissal in May, according to a letter obtained by CNN.
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The Department of Justice won't allow the Senate Judiciary Committee to interview two top FBI officials.
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That the DOJ cited Mueller and the Russia investigation when it declined the committee's requests to interview Ghattas and Rybicki indicated to legal experts that the FBI doesn't want its own probe of the circumstances surrounding Comey's firing to be compromised by Congress.
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