The intrigue: The “Rule of Five” law allows any five members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to request federal agencies to provide information about “any matter within the jurisdiction of the committee.”

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    Weird how they want it released now, but didn’t do shit about it under Biden…

    Almost like it’s all theatrics for them.

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      The finance committee requested the files, got them, wrote up subpoenas based on those files and were blocked by republiQans.

      All under Biden. Still ready to go, just get the GQP to do anything at all.

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      Too little was done out of fear Trump would capitalize on it.

      And look how that turned out.

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          They’re saying that the Biden administration didn’t want to release the info and stir the pot. They were afraid that the fascists republicans would do something shitty in retaliation.

          Which of course, the GOP was always gonna do anyway, because they have always tried to get away with whatever they could. So now we get the fallout without the payoff of actually getting the files released

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      It will never get released. The Democrats get to act like they want to release it while the Republicans are blocking it now. This is very bad theater.

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        I can imagine it like a scene in a sitcom. They are both yanking on the documents in a tug of war in front of an audience of citizens. Only for someone to slip and the documents fly into the air and rain down on the citizens by accident, fucking them both over.

        We can only hope.

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      Why would they release the files when it could put active investigations at risk? John Q Public doesn’t need to know who’s name is on the list if the justice department is doing it’s job properly. Now that it’s not we might as well know how trump prefers 14yo’s that look like his daughter.