Mueller requested DOJ hand over documents related to Comey firing

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Special counsel Robert Mueller asked the Justice Department within the past month to turn over a wide array of documents as part of its ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, ABC News reported Sunday.

His team is particularly interested in materials that relate to Trump’s dismissal of former FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions‘s decision to recuse himself from the Russia probe earlier this year, a source who was told about the request informed ABC News.

This will be Mueller’s first records request to the Justice Department, the very agency that is overseeing the probe.

Trump has repeatedly slammed Sessions for recusing himself from the investigation and for Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s subsequent decision to appoint Mueller. Both Sessions and Rosenstein were integral to the decision to remove Comey.

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