Judiciary chair issues subpoena to Justice Dept.

WASHINGTON— The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to the Justice Department Thursday night, demanding documents related to the role information from a controversial dossier played in securing a surveillance warrant for a Trump campaign adviser, the investigation into former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, and the firing of Andrew McCabe as deputy FBI director.

In a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Chairman Bob Goodlatte, RVa., complained that the Justice Department has been taking too long to produce the materials, some of which he and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., began asking the department for last October. Mr. Gowdy did not join Mr. Goodlatte in issuing any of the subpoenas.

Mr. Goodlatte’s complaint noted that the department “has only produced a fraction” of the 1.2 million documents it turned over to its own inspector general related to Ms. Clinton’s use of a private email server. He also noted that DOJ has produced “no documents” in response to his February request for records related to how the FBI and DOJ used information passed to them by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, the author of a dossier alleging Mr. Trump had links to Russia, whose work was paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign, to support an application to conduct surveillance on Carter Page, a Trump campaign adviser.