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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 3249351" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/us/politics/trump-mueller-russia-republican-campaign.html" target="_blank">Text Messages in Hand, Republicans Plan to Accuse Justice Department of Bias</a>The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/us/fbi-trump-russia.html" target="_blank">release Tuesday night of friend.B.I. officials’ text messages</a> describing the possibility of a victory by Donald J. Trump as “terrifying” and saying that Hillary Clinton “just has to win” is certain to fuel a Republican campaign to attack the impartiality of the Justice Department and its special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III — and possibly hamper him with an investigation of the special counsel’s office.Accusations of bias, primed by the newly released texts from an friend.B.I. agent, Peter Strzok, and an friend.B.I. lawyer, Lisa Page, are likely to take center stage on Wednesday when Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who appointed Mr. Mueller as special counsel, testifies before the House Judiciary Committee. Republicans say they will press Mr. Rosenstein to appoint a second special counsel to investigate political partisanship in the department and to scrutinize Mr. Trump’s former presidential rival, Mrs. Clinton.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 3249351, member: 12952"] [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/us/politics/trump-mueller-russia-republican-campaign.html"]Text Messages in Hand, Republicans Plan to Accuse Justice Department of Bias[/URL] The [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/us/fbi-trump-russia.html']release Tuesday night of friend.B.I. officials’ text messages[/URL] describing the possibility of a victory by Donald J. Trump as “terrifying” and saying that Hillary Clinton “just has to win” is certain to fuel a Republican campaign to attack the impartiality of the Justice Department and its special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III — and possibly hamper him with an investigation of the special counsel’s office. Accusations of bias, primed by the newly released texts from an friend.B.I. agent, Peter Strzok, and an friend.B.I. lawyer, Lisa Page, are likely to take center stage on Wednesday when Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who appointed Mr. Mueller as special counsel, testifies before the House Judiciary Committee. Republicans say they will press Mr. Rosenstein to appoint a second special counsel to investigate political partisanship in the department and to scrutinize Mr. Trump’s former presidential rival, Mrs. Clinton. [/QUOTE]

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