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Republicans launch probes of Clinton emails decision, uranium deal

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WASHINGTON: Republican lawmakers on Tuesday launched investigations to examine several of President Donald Trump’s longs-tanding political grievances, including the FBI probe of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails and her alleged role in a sale of US uranium to a Russian firm.


House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy announced a probe to address “outstanding questions” about why former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey publicly disclosed the bureau’s investigation of Clinton but never disclosed one into Trump’s associates in the 2016 presidential campaign.


“These investigations were initiated on a partisan basis, and will shed no light on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, but then again they are not intended to do so,” Representative Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said on Tuesday in a statement.


Instead, said Schiff, “they are designed to distract attention and pursue the President’s preferred goal - attacking Clinton and Obama.”


Republicans in Congress also are investigating whether officials in former President Barack Obama’s administration spied on Trump’s campaign and whether Russians helped pay for a dossier on Trump commissioned by Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm. So far, there is no evidence to support either allegation.


The Republican leaders of the House intelligence and oversight committees on Tuesday announced another new probe, this one into an Obama-era deal in which a Russian company bought a Canadian firm that owned some 20 per cent of US uranium supplies.


The Republican lawmakers said they want to know if the transaction was fully investigated by the FBI and other agencies before a panel that oversees foreign investment in US strategic assets approved it. — Reuters


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