The Senate Judiciary Committee is giving former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice until February 22 to answer questions relating to an email she sent to herself prior to exiting from the Obama administration. It occurred during President Trump’s inauguration. The email contains classified information, so it’s a partial disclosure from the Judiciary Committee, but it seems to show that on January 5, 2017, then-President Obama, Vice President Biden, then-FBI Director James Comey, and then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates had a meeting in the Oval Office about the fallout from the Russian interference in the 2016 election.
By Matt Vespa
Sens. @ChuckGrassley and @LindseyGrahamSC want to know why SUSAN RICE emailed herself on her last day about a Jan. 5 meeting with Comey, Yates, Obama, Biden re: Russia.
They were wondering whether they couldn’t share things with the incoming admin –>https://t.co/TaF67mqBUW pic.twitter.com/MPxtHri9wv
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 12, 2018
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Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) added, “It strikes us as odd that, among your activities in the final moments on the final day of the Obama administration, you would feel the need to send yourself such an unusual email purporting to document a conversation involving President Obama and his interactions with the FBI regarding the Trump/Russia investigation.” As a result, they have a few questions that they would like an answer by February 22…