HOUSE PANEL SUBPOENAS EX-FBI LAWYER
WASHINGTON» The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed former FBI lawyer Lisa Page to appear for a private interview on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the subpoena.
Page exchanged text messages critical of Donald Trump with FBI agent Peter Strzok, who will testify publicly before the panel on Thursday. Page and Strzok both worked on the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails and later special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the subpoena isn’t public.
It is unclear if Page will appear. Her lawyer, Amy Jeffress, said in a statement that they are “still waiting to work out a reasonable date” for the interview. Jeffress said they are also still waiting on documents from the FBI to prepare.
Baby survives nine hours buried in western Montana woods.
5-month-old infant who miraculously survived more than nine hours being buried under a pile of sticks and debris in the woods of western Montana suffered only minor injuries despite wearing wet and soiled clothes in cold weather, authorities said.The baby boy is otherwise in good condition, authorities said.
Missoula County Sheriff’s deputies were called about 8 p.m. Saturday about a man threatening people in the Lolo Hot Springs area of the Lolo National Forest. Deputies apprehended the man, who indicated that a baby was buried somewhere in the woods.
The sheriff’s office hastily put together a search crew of federal, state and local officials that combed the forest outside the hot springs for six hours before a deputy heard a baby’s cry at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
Francis Crowley, 32, was being held on $50,000 bail on a charge of criminal endangerment. Additional charges will follow, the sheriff’s office said in a statement Sunday.
Ethics review sought as excoaches at Ohio St. defend Jordan.
watchdog group and a former special counsel to President Barack Obama are seeking an ethics review of U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan even as former colleagues back his statements that he didn’t know about sexual abuse of wrestlers while coaching at Ohio State University.
Some ex-wrestlers from the late 1980s and early 1990s say they were groped by team doctor Richard Strauss and that Jordan knew then about the alleged abuse as an assistant coach. Jordan, founder of the conservative Freedom Caucus and potential contender for House speaker, denies that and has said he and other coaches would have reported any alleged abuse brought to their attention.
Indiana attorney general says groping allegations are false.
INDIANAPOLIS» Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill defiantly rejected calls to resign, lamenting that he has been unfairly denied “due process” amid allegations that he drunkenly groped a lawmaker and three legislative staffers at a party.
The Republican called the claims “vicious and false” during a news conference as the allegations play out across news headlines and in the court of public opinion. He demanded due process — a legal concept that generally refers to fairness from the government in proceedings — but he has declined to offer his own version of events.
The claims against Hill were made public after an internal legislative memo was leaked to the media last week. In it, the four women said Hill drunkenly groped them during a party in March in Indianapolis.