"This is nothing more than a fishing expedition," said Rep.
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"This is nothing more than a fishing expedition," Burgess said.
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In other words, the investigation would be a fishing expedition.
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It seems an easy, cheap, predictable kind of fishing expedition.
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" Special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, he said, is a "fishing expedition.
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Martin Heinrich when asked about criticism of mounting a fishing expedition.
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He's been baiting his hook for another fishing expedition ever since.
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So, on "Joanne," she goes on a fishing expedition for inspiration.
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In the end, as she put it, "it's a fishing expedition."
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And it will -- it's not meant to be a fishing expedition.
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" Smith also characterized the committee's request for documents as a "fishing expedition.
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Republicans have condemned the request as a political "fishing expedition" by Democrats.
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He wants to volunteer the Senate's time and energy on a fishing expedition.
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"The subpoena, in my judgment, is a fishing expedition," he said in court.
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A pure fishing expedition like this never happened before, & it should never happen again!
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The administration, meanwhile, argues that this is all basically a bad-faith fishing expedition.
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Swank and Graniel set out on a fly fishing expedition at 11:30 a.
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Republicans argue that Democrats are waging a "fishing expedition" to hunt for damaging information.
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The fishing expedition left the port of Jindu on Youngheung Island at 6 a.m.
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It's because they allowed their mandate to encompass everything in a massive fishing expedition.
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"Mother's off the starboard port bow," someone yells, when a fishing expedition is mounted.
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But others think he's on a partisan fishing expedition that will unavoidably target Clinton.
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When they do this type of fishing expedition, they are setting themselves up for blowback.
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The plane was carrying a pilot, two guides and four passengers on a fishing expedition.
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At the same time, this cannot be allowed to become a never ending fishing expedition.
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Around the same time, the Britons went on their own fishing expedition for Clinton's files.
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It isn't to be used as a fishing expedition to get random information on people.
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Lawyer Eelco Meerdink, representing Nissan-Mitsubishi, said Ghosn's legal team was "going on a fishing expedition".
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That allows him to cast a very wide net in a fishing expedition looking for wrongdoing.
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" Rappler said the order, a copy of which was reviewed by Reuters, was a "fishing expedition.
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"They seem to be on some kind of fishing expedition at my client's expense," Cochran opines.
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The seven people aboard were the pilot, two guides and four passengers on a fishing expedition.
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Democrats were quick to describe it as a waste of time and a fishing expedition. Rep.
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Rappler said the order, a copy of which was reviewed by Reuters, was a "fishing expedition".
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If he doesn't, then Mueller's investigation will eventually start to look like a political fishing expedition.
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To justify their fishing expedition, the Attorneys General have invoked their duty to investigate consumer fraud.
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Is the IRS on a so-called fishing expedition, simply hoping to stumble across some untoward behavior?
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With the quick revelations about Russia and the election, Mueller was signaling this isn't a fishing expedition.
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Hobson's "fishing expedition" would not turn up any relevant evidence, it asserted in a May 6, 1998, motion.
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"This is a fishing expedition," Avi Loeb, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Gizmodo.
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"The warrants at issue authorize precisely the type of fishing expedition that the Fourth Amendment prohibits," Michelman said.
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" In court filings, Yahoo has described the request for a deposition and documents as a "baseless fishing expedition.
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Mr Rosenstein reiterated that the investigation was subject to due legal process and was not a "fishing expedition".
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"I trust that he'll be very careful to try not to go on a fishing expedition," Christie said.
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Subpoenas Trump has dismissed the storm of affidavits as a "fishing expedition" and indicated he would fight back.
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It's no big deal, he said, they're just on a fishing expedition, this will all be over soon.
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"If he doesn't, then Mueller's investigation will eventually start to look like a political fishing expedition," he added.
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Congressional Republicans condemned the effort as a dangerous political fishing expedition by Democrats that could "weaponize" confidential taxpayer information.
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Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove star Gary Ripka opened up about his near-death experience while on a fishing expedition.
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On Saturday, a man named Doug Nelson and his son joined a father-son fishing expedition near Cape Cod, .
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"We view the entire subpoena as an inappropriate fishing expedition not made in good faith," Consovoy told the judges.
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Oh, that&aposs right, this is an anti-Trump fishing expedition, looking for something, anything, to take the president down.
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In 2015, 15 people were killed during a fishing expedition near the resort island of Jeju when their boat capsized.
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Steve King of Iowa told Politico they're planning to vocally object to Mueller's spending as an open-ended fishing expedition.
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Prince told reporters after the interview that the committee had wasted his time and taxpayer dollars on a fishing expedition.
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So Chuck goes on a fishing expedition, including a somewhat heartless visit to Donnie's widow, in search of this doctor's name.
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And finally, we catch a glimpse of Jack's own childhood — as a fishing expedition with his dad goes sadly, predictably wrong.
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Doug assumes Romero is helping because he wants to be Minority Whip; we later learn that it was a fishing expedition.
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"I am not of the view that Mueller is on a fishing expedition or is about to go home," Napolitano wrote.
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Many on the right are also raising alarms that the investigation is a fishing expedition that has extended beyond its mandate.
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At the time, Smyrichinsky, a professional diver with U.B. Diving, was out on a three-week fishing expedition with some buds.
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Cramer warned that voting for a motion to consider additional witnesses and information could turn the trial into a fishing expedition.
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After two weeks of touring natural and historic sites, we set off on a fly-fishing expedition to the Onon River.
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The more time Democrats spend on a partisan fishing expedition, the less time they are tending to the needs of their constituents.
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Trump's case against the case against him is that it's an endless fishing expedition, conducted by obscure but powerful anti-Trump partisans.
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Supervisors within the Treasury Department were reportedly warned in 2016 that Russians were conducting a "fishing expedition" as part of their correspondence.
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Of course, these networks seek out lonely and isolated men, a fishing expedition at which ISIS in particular has become especially adept.
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But it is squalid, smelly and suspicious, and another reminder of why Robert Mueller's investigation of Trump's finances is no fishing expedition.
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Kalven filed a motion to quash the subpoena, calling Van Dyke's effort to identify his source an "unjustified fishing expedition" in legal filings.
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While aboard the Cape Caution vessel during a nighttime fishing expedition, Captain "Wild" Bill Wichrowski admits that they're struggling to fight the current.
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" NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck told Fox News that ProPublica's piece "should go in the dictionary under what a 'fishing expedition' looks like.
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Mueller's indictments are not the work product of some frivolous fishing expedition to indict Trump, as some of Trump's conservative allies have claimed.
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A criminal investigation should not be a fishing expedition or a search for criminal statutes that can be stretched to fit particular targets.
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Maybe. Going on a days-long hunting or fishing expedition, or relying on it while traveling in a camper van with no refrigerator?
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Republicans have refused to request documents from Kavanaugh's time as staff secretary, arguing Democrats are trying to go on a fishing expedition. Sen.
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Republicans dismissed the committee's action as a partisan fishing expedition against Trump and a bid to heal political rifts within House Democratic ranks.
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The court ruled that knowing the account number was enough, saying it was not an improper fishing expedition - a key point in France's case.
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" Also Wednesday, Consovoy said the state grand jury subpoena to Trump's accountants demanding his personal and corporate tax returns is "an inappropriate fishing expedition.
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Both Kent and Ron got the gut feeling that they were summoned there not to have their questions answered but as a fishing expedition.
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The transcript showed a combative hearing, in which Prince accused the committee's Democrats of a fishing expedition and complained they were wasting his time.
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The business idea emerged after the group of friends went on a fishing expedition and unexpectedly pulled out three bicycles from Paris' famous river.
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Von Miller will NOT be punished for illegally catching a hammerhead shark on a 2018 fishing expedition ... but not everyone involved got so lucky.
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They are on firmer ground pursuing Trump's tax returns out of their legislative and oversight duties and not because of a partisan fishing expedition.
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Trump's attorneys don't want their client to be interviewed by the special counsel's team on a fishing expedition, according to one source with knowledge.
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Conaway said he saw no "link" between Trump's finances and the committee's investigation, and he did not want to go on a fishing expedition.
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Although Spicer intends to cooperate with the probe and said he respects the committee's authority, he called it a "fishing expedition" by the Democrats.
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"This to me on its face looks like a fishing expedition," said Nuala O'Connor, president and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology.
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It is appalling to see the Canadian government engage in a misguided fishing expedition masquerading as an essential fight in the War on Terror.
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"Oh man, it was unbelievable," Troy Bowman, a math teacher who had chartered the boat for a fishing expedition, told the the Post and Courier.
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There's every reason to be suspicious about how games, especially big-budget ones, are made, but absent evidence, it can feel like a fishing expedition.
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But so far Republicans have refused, arguing that Democrats want to go on a fishing expedition for a nominee most of the caucus will oppose.
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But Republicans have dismissed the request as a "fishing expedition," countering that Kavanaugh's roughly 12 years on the bench sheds light on his legal philosophy.
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Accusations of a "fishing expedition" The leaked emails have also drawn attention to foreign lobbying laws and the government's historically loose standards for enforcing them.
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Mr. Boal is also fighting the demand that he turn over tapes of his conversations with Sergeant Bergdahl, which appears to be a fishing expedition.
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In other words, Nunes wants to go on a fishing expedition to satiate his political grievances, and he wants the courts to light the way.
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" A few days after Mr. Boz's faux fishing expedition, an article appeared on Gothamist: "Video: Man Claims He Caught Three-Eyed Fish in Gowanus Canal.
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TAX collection in Africa resembles an exasperating fishing expedition, in which the big fish wriggle into tax havens and the tiddlers hide in the informal sector.
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Alexander's decision to only sue Whetstone — after reportedly considering a broader defendant class — likely speaks to his effort to minimize the appearance of a fishing expedition.
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But in the first episode, a fishing expedition accidentally drags up a mermaid — and the fishermen becoming involved in conspiracy to cover-up the creatures' existence.
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Congressional Republicans have condemned Neal's request as a political fishing expedition by Democrats, while the White House has said the documents will "never" be turned over.
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Von Miller's fishing expedition in Florida has ignited an investigation after PETA accused the NFL star of illegally catching a hammerhead shark ... TMZ Sports has learned.
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We are now more than 14 months of this politically motivated fishing expedition all designed to malign the president that you the American people voted for.
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And the idea that he&aposs allowed to do this fishing expedition, to me isn&apost an egregious abuse of justice and the rule of law.
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A big, fat, fishing expedition desperately in search of a crime, when in fact the real crime is what the Dems are doing, and have done!
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"They were just on a fishing expedition to get whatever they could," said Kevin Turner, director of information technology at the Illinois State Board of Elections.
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They want to show that they are requesting the tax returns out of legitimate legislative and oversight duties, not as part of some partisan fishing expedition.
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Republicans maintained that they were seeking information about Russian meddling, but Democrats characterized the meeting as a baseless fishing expedition aimed to distract from Mueller's probe.
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LIMBAUGH: The thing - the order was so broad that the appointment memo was so broad, it leads me to believe that they were on a fishing expedition.
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In the complaint filed on Monday, the president's team argued that his political opponents leading the House Intelligence and Financial Services Committees are on a fishing expedition.
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"We view the entire subpoena as an inappropriate fishing expedition not made in good faith," Consovoy, a lawyer for Trump, told the three-judge panel on Wednesday.
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"We view the entire subpoena as an inappropriate fishing expedition not made in good faith," Consovoy, a lawyer for Trump, told the three-judge panel on Wednesday.
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But in December 2015, a state appeals court limited the disclosure to photos intended for trial, saying Henkin could not go on a "fishing expedition" for evidence.
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The company claimed to have customers in government agencies, and described the prosecution as something like a fishing expedition, according to a translated version of the announcement.
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That approach makes it far too easy for Trump and the Republicans to label the Democrats' strategy a fishing expedition — something that will prompt substantial media coverage.
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" Woodhouse told CNN that the three-judge panel recognized that the board of elections, led by Malcolm, "was going to just continue a never-ending fishing expedition.
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The fishing expedition worked: It uncovered Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, which ultimately caused serious and unwarranted political damage.
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But Republicans continue to squander millions of taxpayer dollars chasing right-wing conspiracy theories and forcing Pentagon officials to waste their time on this partisan fishing expedition.
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Moreover, the scope of the documents in question – internal DOJ discussions about how to respond to the GOP's absurd political fishing expedition – raised legitimate separation of powers issues.
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Attorneys for Trump have argued that the subpoena is part of a fishing expedition by Democrats to find damaging information about the president ahead of the 2020 election.
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So committed is Trump to this fishing expedition that more resources are being poured into these activities even as the State Department as a whole faces massive cuts.
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"I think Congressman Schiff should apologize for wasting all of our time, wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on a meaningless fishing expedition," Prince said, referring to California Rep.
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" And Mr. Grassley said on Twitter that Judge Kavanaugh's 12 years of appeals court opinions were the best way to evaluate him, adding, "Let's stop the fishing expedition.
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Conway described the investigation as being "limited in scope" and "not...a fishing expedition," but said that the FBI would determine exactly how narrow the investigation will be.
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But this panel has shown young scientists that doing so might expose them to endless fishing-expedition subpoenas, dead-end Kafkaesque inquisitions, and even threats to their physical safety.
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The offer came from Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei, whose company controls Sirius XM, but was more of a "fishing expedition" than a formal offer, sources told the Journal.
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"Chairman Nadler and his fellow Democrats have embarked on this fishing expedition because they are terrified that their two-year false narrative of 'Russia collusion' is crumbling," Sanders said.
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" "People are asking me to use the power of Congress to do a full-on fishing expedition to investigate him personally on things that are not required by law.
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When your client base is large enough for the taxman to go on a fishing expedition to see who is using your services, you have truly come of age.
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" Mr. Brewer has assailed Ms. James in the past for threatening to investigate the N.R.A. before she was elected, saying she was embarking on "a taxpayer-funded fishing expedition.
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" It's true congressional Republicans desperately want to move on, and they're making every effort to downplay reports and use developments in investigations by claiming it's a partisan "fishing expedition.
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"They'll go into the back and kind of go on a fishing expedition for a number of hours [on a smartphone] to see if there's any incriminating information," Saunders said.
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The Justice Department under the Obama administration responded to these two cases by making a congressional aide a virtual walking surveillance device for a fishing expedition in a congressional office.
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New York governor Andrew Cuomo and his brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, are in hot water over their catch of a thresher shark during a fishing expedition over the weekend.
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"I think that we cannot allow the people that have acted in bad faith to determine and allow this to become a total fishing expedition by the FBI," Sanders said.
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U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C. agreed with Letter, ruling that Congress was "not engaged in a fishing expedition" and that Mazars must comply with the committee's subpoena.
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White House officials have called the request a political fishing expedition, and Mr. Mnuchin has said that furnishing the returns could open the floodgates to weaponizing the Internal Revenue Service.
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There were private plane trips, courtesy of Mr. Howe's clients, for Mr. Cuomo days before his first election — not to mention a deep-sea fishing expedition for his campaign manager.
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Her decision came after the prosecution team accused Pell's lawyers of going on a "fishing expedition" for personal medical information about the accusers, particularly in the area of mental health.
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"Democrats have embarked on a fishing expedition because they are terrified that their two year false narrative of 'Russia collusion' is crumbling," Sanders said in a statement on Monday night.
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"We are going to let Grassley and Feinstein work out what they think is relevant to produce a thorough, transparent review without a taxpayer-funder fishing expedition," Mr. Shah said.
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"A lawsuit opens the door, and judges almost always allow for a plaintiff to have a fishing expedition," Robert Bennett, who represented Clinton in that case, told the New York Times.
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"This isn't a fishing expedition or a witch hunt — it's an investigation that's already born fruit with a grand jury of regular Americans finding probable cause that a crime was committed."
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In September 2010, Sky paid for an Alaska fishing expedition for the program manager at around the same time SRI was awarded a $9.9 million contract for military munitions response services.
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While de Blasio shares the blame with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, these urgent crises certainly don't benefit from the mayor's spending valuable time and energy on a national fishing expedition.
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"This is clearly a fishing expedition that picks up where the Pence-Kobach Commission stopped," said Ms. Riggs, referring to Vice President Mike Pence, who had been chairman of the commission.
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Facebook has rebuffed Rainsy's demands, calling his request a "fishing expedition," and arguing that handing over Hun Sen's private communications and account activity would be in violation of U.S. privacy law.
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"This is alarming — they are just going on a fishing expedition," said Margret D. Stock, a lawyer and former Army Reserve lieutenant colonel who helped create the military's immigrant recruit program.
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In these congressional cases, Trump&aposs lawyers argued that Congress does not have a legitimate legislative purpose in examining his records and is going on a "sweeping" and "extraordinary" fishing expedition.
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But with more easily cowed county officials — or those who simply couldn't afford a four-month court battle — the fishing expedition would have significantly chilled participation in the legal farm program.
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It was during a chapter called "Hymir and Thor's Fishing Expedition," in which Thor and several other gods arrive at the great hall of the sea giant Aegir and demand a feast.
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Trump and his Republican supporters, however, accuse Democrats of engaging in a wide-ranging fishing expedition to dig up dirt on the president and bolster an eventual case for his impeachment. Rep.
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There is no basis for this charge, which the Trump administration all but admitted when it asked Congress to go on a fishing expedition to uncover "the truth" about what really happened.
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But Republicans had dismissed their broader request as a "fishing expedition," and characterized Kavanaugh's work as a staff secretary as a "paper pusher" that would shed little light on his judicial philosophy.
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Over several cups of tinto, the strong black coffee that keeps Colombia caffeinated, we came up with a three-day plan — a wildlife safari, a fishing expedition and a search for snakes.
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The evaluation is a kind of fishing expedition, in which doctors thread an array of electrodes into the brain and wait for seizures to occur to see whether surgery might prevent them.
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And earlier today, former New York City mayor, current Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani had very strong words for the seemingly never-ending fishing expedition to undo the election of you the American people.
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He told The Washington Post that he would sooner go to jail than comply with it, arguing that Mueller's request would be time consuming for him and that it was a fishing expedition.
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My conservative friends keep saying that this is a fishing expedition and that Mueller should be fired because he's "too close" to the F.B.I. Why don't we just let him do his job?
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And we handed over our relevant bank records — while drawing the line at a fishing expedition for the records of companies we work for that have nothing to do with the Trump case.
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The Attorneys General have embarked on a wide-reaching fishing expedition that wanders far afield from what they are supposed to be doing, and trenches on the freedom of speech and the press.
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Now, with Mueller&aposs runaway investigation on day 218, not a single shred of evidence President Trump and even some top Democrats worried that Americans are getting sick of the seemingly endless fishing expedition.
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The claims in Mr. Manafort's lawsuit echoed allegations made by Mr. Trump and his allies, that the special counsel's team is on a partisan fishing expedition and has exceeded its original Justice Department mandate.
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After waiting 24 hours, his team called for Congress to investigate—clearly a fishing expedition to find a shred of evidence it can hold up as proof that Trump wasn't just making shit up.
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President Calvin Coolidge had the legal authority to get the records from the Internal Revenue Service, but his aides worried that Congress was on a fishing expedition, and Coolidge hesitated to turn them over.
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"A lawsuit opens the door, and judges almost always allow for a plaintiff to have a fishing expedition," said Robert S. Bennett, the Washington lawyer who represented Mr. Clinton in the Paula Jones case.
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It's clear Mr. Mueller and his staff are not on any fishing expedition here; we need to let this probe play out in its own time — the republic may very well depend on it.
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This week, the ocean proved to us yet again that it's full of wonderful mysteries when a weird, unidentified shark was caught during a recreational fishing expedition off the coast of Los Cabos, Mexico.
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He said Gubarev's lawyers were seeking a seven-hour deposition from Steele, which he said amounted to a "mini public inquiry" and an opportunistic "fishing expedition" which could put Steele's sources at increased risk.
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If the FAA internally determined Haughwout's gun drone wasn't a violation of any laws, it looks like the agency might be on a fishing expedition to see if it can get him on a technicality.
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At the court hearing today, Lisa Barnett Sween, one of Google's lawyers, said the DoL's request is unconstitutional, The Guardian reports, calling it a "fishing expedition that has absolutely no relevance to the compliance review."
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That, despite the fact that five people -- including his national security adviser and his former deputy campaign chairman -- have plead guilty already in the Mueller probe that it is all one big partisan fishing expedition.
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"Rappler should welcome this investigation so that it will have the chance to prove the innocence it claims to have," he said in a statement, responding to what Rappler calling that investigation a "fishing expedition".
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Neal worries, according to Bloomberg, that taking the immediate win in New York could jeopardize his legal argument for the IRS filings and reinforce Trump's position that Democrats are simply on a political fishing expedition.
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The preoperative "evaluation" is a fishing expedition of sorts, in which doctors sink an array of electrodes through the top of the skull and wait for a seizure to occur, to see whether it's operable.
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"We handed over our relevant bank records -- while drawing the line at a fishing expedition for the records of companies we work for that have nothing to do with the Trump case," Fusion's founders wrote.
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It claims that Hood's inquiry is a fishing expedition that is being pushed by the movie industry to try and establish online piracy policies that Congress previously rejected after a massive backlash from the public.
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Under Obama, the federal government — or rather, particular federal attorneys who are trying to push back against state and local marijuana legalization — used a fishing expedition to harass medical marijuana growers in Mendocino County, California.
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Under President Obama, the federal government — or rather, particular federal attorneys who are trying to push back against state and local marijuana legalization — used a fishing expedition to harass medical marijuana growers in Mendocino County, California.
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As we learned during the Clinton scandal, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr simply went on a four-year-long fishing expedition that started with an Arkansas land deal and finally struck gold with the Monica Lewinsky affair.
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The GOP members of the Oversight committee who highlighted Cummings's move were quick to bemoan what they described as a political fishing expedition for dirt on a man who at the time was a private citizen.
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Republican abuse of congressional "process" in the Fast and Furious case dragged on for nearly a decade after the GOP shamefully cloaked its political fishing expedition in the tragic death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
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"Clearly the administration has embarked on one more fishing expedition to support a political agenda divorced from the facts," Randy Johnson, the chamber's senior vice president of labor, immigration, and employee benefits, said in a statement.
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In two new court filings in the Central District of California, attorneys for Qatar and its lobbyist Nicolas Muzin argue that Broidy is on a "fishing expedition" for information about sensitive government business to embarrass Qatar.
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In perhaps the most uncomfortable scene, Marina is questioned regarding the circumstances surrounding Orlando's death, with the police -- pursuing a fishing expedition to unearth foul play -- forcing her to disrobe, looking for signs of a struggle.
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Curiously, when Republicans in Congress led drawn out, costly, fishing expedition-like investigation after investigation while President Barack Obama was in office, I didn't hear Republicans chiding themselves for how their partisan bias would skew their investigation.
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Wary of his own suit appearing to be a political fishing expedition, Neal argued he needs Trump's federal returns in order to understand how well the IRS is implementing a long-standing policy of auditing the president.
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NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors urged a Manhattan federal judge to reject Michael Avenatti's request to subpoena Nike Inc, calling it a "fishing expedition" unrelated to a criminal case accusing the embattled lawyer of extortion.
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This project would not have stood a chance before any standard funding agency or telescope allocation committee; scientists simply cannot ask for a few minutes every night on a telescope or for funding for essentially a fishing expedition.
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Switzerland's highest court is still to decide on France's demand for UBS, the largest Swiss bank and the world's largest wealth manager, to hand over sensitive customer data, or whether to dismiss the request as a "fishing expedition".
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Trump called the demand nothing but "a big fat fishing expedition," provoking the reflection that you are rarely scared of big fat fishing expeditions unless you know that there are big fat fish lurking somewhere in your pond.
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Democrats, wary of their suit looking like a partisan fishing expedition, have couched their demands for Trump's returns in terms of needing to examine how well the IRS is implementing a longstanding policy of automatically auditing every president.
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Republicans counter that Democrats are trying to go on a fishing expedition for Bush-era documents that are "sensitive" for the administration but not relevant to Kavanaugh's legal thinking or the work he was doing in the White House.
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The EPA missed the deadline to respond to the request, and when PEER filed a suit to compel an answer, the agency dodged it again by calling the legal action "a trap" and "a fishing expedition," which PEER denies.
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There's no pricing and the website features a vague promise of a special price if you leave your email address, which suggests this is a bit of a fishing expedition — that expandable neck is probably a bear to engineer.
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"The purpose of these pedestrian 'checkpoints' is to conduct a fishing expedition to find any possible basis, no matter how tenuous, for issuing citations to or arresting human beings seeking refuge from a Class 5 hurricane," the lawsuit read.
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"This is a partisan fishing expedition by six liberal Democrats who combined have taken more than $1.2 million from far-left environmentalist groups dead-set against any reforms to an out of control EPA," Rogers said in a statement.
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" William A. Brewer III, the N.R.A.'s outside counsel, said Ms. James had given no indication when she was a candidate that "the N.R.A. had done anything improper," adding that she had instead promised "a taxpayer-funded fishing expedition.
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His lawyers have previously argued that magistrates looking into the alleged secret Libyan funding exceeded their powers and went on a "fishing expedition" by tapping his conversations with Herzog between September 2013 and March 2014, breaching lawyer-client privilege.
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Wohl and Burkman are known to peddle conspiracy theories, and both men frequently parrot President Donald Trump's claims that the Russia investigation is a politically motivated hoax and that Mueller is embarking on a fishing expedition to entrap the president.
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Why would the Democrats waste time on a fishing expedition when the American people were so clearly concerned by other issues, such as health care and the high costs of college education, that were so much more favorable to them?
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Democrats have demanded all the documents from Kavanaugh's time at the White House for review ahead of his confirmation, a request Republicans have said is a "fishing expedition" and a "delay tactic" for a nominee some have no intention of considering.
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U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta found that Congress was "not engaged in a fishing expedition" for the President's financial records when it subpoenaed Mazars and said that documents obtained might assist Congress in passing laws and performing other core functions.
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After all, divided government under high partisan polarization is really just gridlocked government, and whatever oversight comes out of it might wind up as an endless fishing expedition to find something, anything, that can bring down the opposing party's president.
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What the special counsel has gathered since the raids provides the clearest proof yet to the American public that Mr. Mueller's inquiry — derided by the president and his allies as an aimless fishing expedition — is rooted in the law and facts.
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Senator Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican who is the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, says that he won't allow a "government-funded fishing expedition," and notes that many Democrats have already vowed to oppose the nomination without seeing any records.
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Discovery can often turn into a fishing expedition, so there could be months of litigation and motions lodged by both sides, a process that is sure to dash any hopes of the President skipping free of his legal troubles anytime soon.
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Republicans have resisted calls to issue subpoenas for bank records, seeking Trump's tax returns or sending letters to witnesses to determine whether there were any Trump financial links to Russian actors -- calling the push nothing more than a Democratic fishing expedition.
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The Boston Globe recently reported that the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is calling out the "explosion in the use" of these "sanctioned fishing expedition tool[s]," and how some state prosecutors have refused to disclose how many they issue.
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Mehta said in Monday's ruling that the committee "has shown that it is not engaged in a pure fishing expedition for the President's financial records" and that the Mazars documents might assist Congress in passing laws and performing other core functions.
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Consovoy, who represented Trump during the hearing, argued that the subpoenas were part of "a fishing expedition" and that if they are permitted to move forward, overzealous prosecutors around the country could take part in the feeding frenzy and subpoena Trump for anything.
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A unanimous panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday rejected arguments by Hanover, Maryland-based Aerotek, and its attorneys at Seyfarth Shaw and Morgan Lewis & Bockius, claiming that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was engaging in a fishing expedition.
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Democrats have demanded all of the documents from Kavanaugh's time at the White House for review ahead of his confirmation, a request Republicans have said is a "fishing expedition" and a "delay tactic" for a nominee some have no intention of considering.
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"We believe that C.B.P. took advantage of Mr. Ou's application for admission to engage in an opportunistic fishing expedition for sensitive and confidential information that Mr. Ou had gathered through his news-gathering activities in Turkey, Iraq, Somalia and elsewhere," he wrote.
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"It was more of a fishing expedition on my part," he said of the at least 20 Freedom of Information requests he submitted, most for E.P.A. employees who were union leaders or had spoken critically of agency management since Mr. Pruitt's arrival.
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The longer Mr. Mueller's investigation goes on, the more vulnerable he will be to allegations that he is on a fishing expedition, said Katy Harriger, a professor of politics at Wake Forest University and the author of a book on special prosecutors.
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Targeting the audit would put the request for the returns squarely within the oversight authority of the House of Representatives' tax committee, which oversees the IRS, and deflect Republican accusations of a fishing expedition by Democrats unfairly targeting the president, the sources said.
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Democrats will have a better shot at getting Trump's tax returns if they can build a strong case for why they want them — showing that they're pursuing them out of legislative and oversight duties, not as part of a partisan fishing expedition.
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I mean, you can call it whatever you want, but they -- during the course of an ongoing presidential campaign, the FBI targeted people in the campaign and went on a fishing expedition -- REGAN: OK, what&aposs the difference between a spy and an informant?
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"Now that Facebook is free to notify these three users that their accounts are subject to a search warrant, we hope the users will contact us or other lawyers to challenge the government's attempt to conduct a fishing expedition through their Facebook accounts," Spitzer said.
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Democrats will have a better shot in succeeding in getting Trump's tax returns if they can build a strong case for why they want them and show that they're pursuing them out of legislative and oversight duties, not as part of a partisan fishing expedition.
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And when Senate Democrats have largely already made up their minds to vote against Judge Kavanaugh — and none of them have even met with him — their demands for an unprecedented paper chase sound more and more like a demand for a taxpayer-funded fishing expedition.
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Democrats have demanded all the documents from Kavanaugh's time at the White House for review ahead of his confirmation, which Republicans have called a "fishing expedition" and a "delay tactic" for a nominee who some Republicans say some Democrats have no intention of considering.
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Democrats have demanded all the documents from Kavanaugh's time at the White House for review ahead of his confirmation, a request Republicans have said is a "fishing expedition" and a "delay tactic" for a nominee some Republicans say some Democrats have no intention of considering.
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Related: Fight Over VICE News Journalist's Digital Messages Now in the Hands of a Judge VICE also argued that Makuch's records would not provide the police with anything they didn't already know and that the production order was merely a fishing expedition by the RCMP.
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Republicans are also watching closely to see whether Democrats embark on "a fishing expedition," as Darling put it, and explore unrelated issues like Kavanaugh's alleged misstatements about stolen documents during the George W. Bush administration or whether they stay focused on the sexual assault allegations.
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Patience and acceptance were just a couple of lessons I learned during a not-always-fruitful but highly instructive fishing expedition, part of a cheap getaway in Washington and Idaho that centered around the states' spectacular natural beauty — with some quality food in the mix.
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On the other hand, Nadler's broad-based approach left the political door swinging wide open for Trump and those around him to decry the investigation as an unfocused, over-broad "big fat fishing expedition" and, of course, to reprise the familiar "witch hunt" rallying cry.
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"If it's a secret and they don't know it, how can they say more than they did," Rogers, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, asked the DOJ attorney who argued the Democrats were essentially on a fishing expedition for incriminating material against the president.
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Federal prosecutors are denouncing as a "fishing expedition" a demand by Michael Flynn's new defense attorneys for nearly 50 categories of information that they contend will undercut the felony false-statement charge the former national security adviser pleaded guilty to nearly two years ago.
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Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law School professor and Trump critic, noted that Ellis previously accused the special counsel of lodging tax and finance charges against Manafort merely as a fishing expedition to get more information for Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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Those who worry about Mueller having an unlimited budget to conduct a "fishing expedition" should be reminded that Section 600.8(a) requires the special counsel to report to Acting Attorney General Rosenstein on the status of the investigation and to seek approval of an annual budget.
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So I think it smells a little fishy, but I just hope it doesn't turn into a fishing expedition, because I will be one of them ones jumping up and down making sure the limitations on this investigation continue because that's the way it's supposed to be.
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"I would never put our ambassador and others in (that) circumstance; we ought to be defending our ambassadors and their past service ... this is not comparable to the 12 (Russians) who were indicted, and there ought not be a fishing expedition by those from Russia," Moran said.
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"We agree that the Justice Department's leadership should move to close Police Officer Pantaleo's case and put an end to what has been a highly irregular fishing expedition by those seeking an indictment at all cost," said Police Benevolent Association Patrick J. Lynch in a statement.
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While Trump isn't personally named as a defendant, Carvin argued the lawsuit "foreshadows a fishing expedition" if allowed to proceed, opening the door to a full-fledged, court-approved investigation involving the president's tax returns, his real estate projects and past business relationships and financial ties.
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"It's a fishing expedition to see if Bannon can provide them with confirmatory evidence regarding the firing of [former F.B.I. Director James] Comey and obstruction of justice, " said David Shapiro, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice with FBI experience and a financial crimes specialization.
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In dueling speeches on the Senate floor, McConnell said he would not allow a "fishing expedition" after a "slapdash" House impeachment process, while Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said a trial without witnesses would be a "sham" and suggested Trump's fellow Republicans favored a cover-up.
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One reason that the request appears to be comparatively narrow -- for returns between 2013 and 2018 -- could be to confine the search to the period immediately before and during Trump's political career and to stave off accusations that the Democrats are embarking on an illegitimate fishing expedition.
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In an inquiry that legal experts have described as overly broad and a fishing expedition, Durham and Barr have traveled overseas to meet with foreign intelligence officials as they seek to uncover evidence supporting Trump&aposs claim that the government acted improperly while investigating his 2016 campaign.
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"There is no reason to allow a wide-ranging fishing expedition into processes that are not before the court, are not at issue in the complaint, that would implicate serious privilege and privacy concerns, and that would create significant unnecessary burdens," they argued in their motion to quash.
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"By announcing such a large number, Democrats are simultaneously sending the signal that this will be a wide-reaching investigation and that it's a possible fishing expedition designed to extract as much political pain for the administration as possible," said former Republican National Committee communications director Doug Heye.
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In the House and Senate, several Republicans who sit on key committees are starting to grumble that the investigations have spanned the better part of the past nine months, contending that the Democratic push to extend the investigation well into next year could amount to a fishing expedition.
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"Walker's subpoenas are a flagrant violation of the First Amendment, and the clear conclusion to draw following his withdrawal of the ExxonMobil subpoena is that these subpoenas were a baseless fishing expedition from the beginning," Kent Lassman, president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), said of the dismissal.
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"The commission's failure to adhere to the [Paperwork Reduction Act] … flouted a legal framework whose provisions would have offered a safeguard against a misguided, and potentially quite harmful, national fishing expedition for voter data," wrote Larry Schwartztol, counsel to Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan watchdog, for the blog Take Care.
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"A defendant who pleads (the truth) must do so on the basis of the information which it has in its possession when the defense is delivered, and is not permitted to undertake a fishing expedition in the hope of finding something in support of its plea," Wigney wrote in his ruling.
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Neal doesn't appear to be in a hurry; he told Bloomberg in June he thought doing so might inadvertently boost the Trump administration's argument that Congress is going after his tax returns as part of a political vendetta and fishing expedition, not as part of its legislative or oversight duties.
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Facing a November bench trial, the Justice Department filed a barrage of motions before Judge Furman, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and, eventually, the U.S. Supreme Court to curtail what the government considered an improper fishing expedition for evidence that shouldn't be part of Judge Furman's evaluation of the case.
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But critics say it resembles a fishing expedition that raises constitutional questions under the Fourth Amendment, which restricts the scope of warrants and mandates authorities show probable cause to search, the Times wrote:The practice was first used by federal agents in 2016, according to Google employees, and first publicly reported last year in North Carolina.
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The committee also voted Wednesday to authorize subpoenas for five former White House officials as part of a separate investigation into abuse of power: The vote passed 24-17, strictly along party lines, after a contentious hearing in which Republicans accused Democrats of being on a fishing expedition in search of anything that could harm Trump.
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Democrats are clamoring for the entire report, for the same reasons they urged an investigation in the first place: They want to use the fine details to craft a technical case for obstruction, then use their congressional investigative powers to continue the fishing expedition with the hope of finding unrelated crimes in Trump's past business dealings.
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Weeks after he was nominated, Kavanaugh's extensive paper trail both as a judge on the DC Circuit and as a staff secretary in the Bush-era White House remains a flash point between the two parties with Republicans accusing Democrats of leading a fishing expedition for irrelevant information and Democrats accusing Republicans of obscuring Kavanaugh's past record. Sen.
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But many days, perhaps the days the officers sat at the side of the road and watched traffic pass, perhaps the days they cruised parking lots outside restaurants or seafood processors or apartment buildings, perhaps the days they saw drivers they decided looked foreign, the searches followed the telltale pattern of a fishing expedition: plate, plate, plate, plate, plate, plate, plate, plate.
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It's forgotten history at this point, but the stunningly over-hyped Hillary Clinton email server controversy that ultimately cost her the presidency grew out of a completely different Republican fishing expedition for evidence that, as secretary of state, she allowed (or masterminded or covered up—the theory of the case was somewhat unclear) the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, in which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
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Cohen called it a "total fishing expedition" to CNN: "I declined the invitation to participate, as the request was poorly phrased, overly broad and not capable of being answered..." Flashback: Cohen last found himself at the center of a media firestorm earlier this year when he played a substantial part in the still-unverified Steele dossier on Trump's Russia connections, which alleged that he took a trip to Prague to meet with Russian officials.
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Sarah Palin (R) says special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE's "fishing expedition" is eventually going to land its catch in President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE.
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Schoenberg, a Clinton supporter and donor, characterized the warrant request as a fishing expedition: I see nothing at all in the search warrant application that would give rise to probable cause, nothing that would make anyone suspect that there was anything on the laptop beyond what the FBI had already searched and determined not to be evidence of a crime, nothing to suggest that there would be anything other than routine correspondence between (Clinton and Abedin).
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellNew Parnas evidence escalates impeachment witnesses fight On The Money — Presented by Wells Fargo — Trump signs first phase of US-China trade deal | Senate to vote Thursday on Canada, Mexico deal | IRS provides relief for those with discharged student loans GOP senator: 85033 candidates must recuse themselves from impeachment trial MORE (R-Ky.) knocked Democrats' request for witnesses beyond those who spoke with the House during its inquiry, arguing they are trying to turn the impeachment trial into a fishing expedition.
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Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano argued in an op-ed published Thursday that special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE is not on a "fishing expedition" or close to concluding his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, despite protestations from President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE.
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