House intel panel chairman subpoenas Barr for Mueller probe documents

[May 09, 2019]    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said on Wednesday he had subpoenaed Attorney General William Barr for documents related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.

Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff (D-CA) arrives for a closed hearing with Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney of U.S. President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 28, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

In a statement, Schiff said the Justice Department had failed to respond to the committee's request for the materials and he had set a May 15 deadline for Barr to comply with the subpoena.

(Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by David Alexander)

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